THE BRITISH THREAD II

Born to a Welsh mother in Woking, Surrey, Smith attended Bexleyheath School, leaving at the age of 16 without a single GCE O-level. Her first job was as a hairdresser and she also worked as a shop assistant and in a travel agency before starting her career in cookery. When Delia was 16, her boyfriend often complimented her, saying how good her food was. This was the nudge forward which made her take that step into cookery. At 21, she started work in a tiny restaurant in Paddington called "The Singing Chef". She started as a washer-upper, then moved on to waitressing before being allowed to help with the cooking. She started reading English cookery books in the Reading Room at the British Museum, trying out the recipes on a Harley Street family with whom she was living at the time.

I was talking to georgeob about it, he's a local man, and during that he asked to be remembered to Spendius, Walter, Farmerman and people he used to enjoy chewing the fat with.
Which pleasant duty I now discharge.

Did George offer an explanation for his absence from A2K?

Many of the interesting posters appeared to have moved on, leaving a fairly high density of cranks and loonies, so I lost interest.

Trumpington is a village on the outskirts of Cambridge. It is located on the south-west side of the city and borders Cherry Hinton to the east, Grantchester to the west and Great Shelford and Little Shelford to the south-east.