Comments on: One Lone Star

by: felicity

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:09:38 +0000

….daisyhead, i think i need to read it for the first time _blushes with embaressment_…. however can highly recommend “the screwtape letters” by the same author!

by: Daisyhead

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:34:05 +0000

I really need to re-read the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Just in case anyone wanted to know. ;-)

by: Fi

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:48:02 +0000

Ah, the overuse of adverbs! That’s why it took me so long to read Lord of the Rings.

What’s this about Turkish Delight and Shoeburyness? Is there a connection? I’m intrigued - I lived in Shoeburyness for six months and exoticness was very hard to come by…

by: Kev Spencer

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:15:16 +0000

I was never fond of Turkish Delight while growing up in Blighty. Would see it in the shops & advertised on the telly but was rather put off by the actual taste. Which, er, wasn’t that good to be honest.

I’d totally forgotton how often Turkish Delight was pimped by C.S. Lewis so reading that review made me chuckle.

by: Huwge

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:48:20 +0000

Shoeburyness?

by: daisy

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:15:48 +0000

Kimberley, I have to admit to agreeing with a few too but I ain’t saying which ones *cough* virginia woolf *cough* ;-)

Mary, I think adverbs are beyond me at this time of night and with a chicken supper trying to work it’s way through my digestive system but I’ll give it a go tomorrow ;-)

razor, can you still buy that sickly brit version of turkish delight? I can’t remember seeing it in the shops. Then again, if I need a choco-fix I tend to zoom in on the big bars of Cadburys fruit & nut and nothing but NOTHING will get in my way… :-)

Huwge, what is it about the name Cleethorpes that makes people smile? I have an urge to edit the post now and substitute Billingshurt for Cleethorpes.

by: Huwge

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:40:06 +0000

Cleethorpes, I believe ;-)

by: razorhead

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:33:53 +0000

here was I thinking that Turkish delight was a traditional sweet delicacy of a major near-eastern country. Had I known that they had taken stripped the gooey british confection of its chocolate and made the violently purple gunk inside palatable, I would have refused to eat any of it every again.

by: Mary

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:11:06 +0000

What we need here is adverbial Turkish Delights. Any ideas? The Turks were utterly, confoundedly delighted to find a witch in their morning coffee.

by: Kimberly

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:59:32 +0000

I saw this and thought it was hilarious. Although I have to admit that I agreed with some of them :D