Jolyn’s Cat
The Egyptians knew A thing or two about cats. Turning otherness Into godhead. Sc-fi followers Claimed an alien Origin for the feline genus: Feles/felis/faelis. Catta/cattus. Aelurus. As many names for ‘cat’ As there...
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FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD Part Eight
THE SEVENTIES I was married in the early seventies. Before that, I had a couple of years as a single girl with my own house. This was a newly built semi-detached at Tile Hill...
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD Part Seven – The Sixties
A guest post by Pam R The Swinging Sixties? It seems like a very long time ago now. What do I remember about food and cooking then? I raid my extensive cookery book collection...
Cats – Training Your Humans Continued
You need to get your people to try you with lots of different brands of cat food, never let them think they’ve got it sussed and that they know your favourite brand, otherwise you...
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD Part Six
Growing up in an Anglo Greek household – Guest Post from Soroptimist Mary Sue My mother always enjoyed cooking as had her own mother. At school, her favourite subjects were Domestic Science and Physical...
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD Part Five
Canadian Cooking in the Forties/Fifties Guest Post by Soroptimist Norma Hundborg What’s typically Canadian? Apart from butter tarts (I’ll return to those!) I can think of just a few things I’ve never seen anywhere...
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD – Part Four the War Years in the UK
1940 Royal Leamington Spa The Minutes of a meeting of the Leamington and Warwick Soroptimist Club on 14th January 1940, recorded that the Mayoress of Leamington referred to the need of a canteen for...
St Petersburg Part 2
Day Two Sleet/snow started again at breakfast. Our first visit was to the Russian Museum which houses the largest collection of Russian Art in the world, over 300,000 exhibits. It is in a palace,...
St Petersburg
Did you read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Pasternak in your youth and if so, how do you imagine Russia? For me, it has always been snow covered with dazzling buildings whose magnificence has dulled during...
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD – NO FOOD Part Two
This was the first part of the 40’s decade! I had not cooked as my mother was always in charge and then I was off to the UK and a new life and a...
