It was so much fun, why don't we do it again next year?
Cross the wide Atlantic to sleep on the floor in distant exotic Wales, full of strange exotic things like sheep, roundabouts, Turkish Delight, castles, standing stones, beaches with shells, bookshops, and cars that drive on the wrong side of the road. Be interrogated by Sasha!
This is an early announcement because people need to plan to travel this far.
OK, I finally have Sasha's school schedule, and next year's May holiday is Friday 29th-Monday 4th June. So anyone who wants to come and boink that week is very welcome - come for the weekend of the 30th May and stay for as long as you like the following week. If there are lots and lots of people (more than this time) I'll look into renting a house by the beach for overflow space.
Airfares this year were around the $500 level. Nearest airport is Cardiff, with buses or trains to Swansea, or it's fairly easy to fly to London and get a train here.
Everyone who wanted to come last time and couldn't, everyone who came last time, everyone generally, email me if you're interested.
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> It was so much fun, why don't we do it again next year?
> Cross the wide Atlantic to sleep on the floor in distant exotic Wales, > full of strange exotic things like sheep, roundabouts, Turkish Delight, > castles, standing stones, beaches with shells, bookshops, and cars that > drive on the wrong side of the road. Be interrogated by Sasha!
Thanks, but I'm busy trying to hang onto this place in a market that sort of discriminates on age.
How is Sasha's arm coming along? Or did I miss a post?
Bob
-- "Since when was genius found respectable?" E. B. Browning
[I just discovered my ISP has "unmoderated" ssm again -- if you've seeing this post for the second time it means your service provider is making the same mistake.]
In article <906822144...@bluejo.demon.co.uk> Jo Walton wrote: >It was so much fun, why don't we do it again next year?
>Cross the wide Atlantic to sleep on the floor in distant exotic Wales, >full of strange exotic things like sheep, roundabouts, Turkish Delight, >castles, standing stones, beaches with shells, bookshops, and cars that >drive on the wrong side of the road. Be interrogated by Sasha!
>This is an early announcement because people need to plan to travel >this far.
And let's not slight the scones...my mouth's watering just thinking about them...with that lovely thick cream.
The *greenness* of the countryside. The hedgerows.
On 26 Sep 1998, Janet Kegg wrote: <and when those feet, in ancient times....>
> But hey, what the heck is Turkish Delight?
> -- Janet
Silly girl. Its what the Witch bribed Edmund with. _Everybody_ knows _that_. Betcha Narnia knew the answer......
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In article <360D52F2.1...@erols.com> blacks...@erols.com "Robert Blackshaw" writes:
> Thanks, but I'm busy trying to hang onto this place in a market > that sort of discriminates on age.
You don't notice me crossing the Atlantic for boinks either.
> How is Sasha's arm coming along? Or did I miss a post?
It's mending pretty well, only another week before the plaster comes off. The big huge plaster-cast plaster came off a fortnight ago (he said "I'd forgotten my arm was so little!" when he saw it coming out of the cast) and since then he's had a much lighter blue fibre- glass one, and a better sling. The x-rays look good now, and we're looking forward to them taking the plaster off - the day after his birthday.
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In article <360d9110.66489...@news.newsguy.com> j...@his.com "Janet Kegg" writes: > But hey, what the heck is Turkish Delight?
It's a gelatinous confection, very sweet, that I've had to explain on usenet a few times because, as David mentions, it's what the witch gave Edmund in :The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe: and it doesn't seem to have made it to NorAm.
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> In article <360d9110.66489...@news.newsguy.com> j...@his.com "Janet Kegg" writes:
> > But hey, what the heck is Turkish Delight?
> It's a gelatinous confection, very sweet, that I've had to explain on > usenet a few times because, as David mentions, it's what the witch > gave Edmund in :The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe: and it doesn't > seem to have made it to NorAm.
Maybe not the US, but it was available in Canada when I was a youth. Since I find it overly sweet I have not sought it out of late, so it may well be available here, I'm just not looking.
Bob
-- "Since when was genius found respectable?" E. B. Browning
>It's a gelatinous confection, very sweet, that I've had to explain on >usenet a few times because, as David mentions, it's what the witch >gave Edmund in :The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe: and it doesn't >seem to have made it to NorAm.
I think I've seen it compared to Aplets and Cotlets...rather like squares of very thick, fruited gelatine then rolled in powdered sugar. Usually has nuts in this version. I adore Aplets and Cotlets (and the other varieties of same, especially the pineapple/macadamia nut one).
But, they're not chocolate.
Kris (after all, nothing *is* except chocolate) -- has...@teleport.com "It never ceases to amaze me how much pleasure people will turn their back on just to avoid a little pain." Dawn O'The Dead, 9-6-98
In article <360E2281.2...@erols.com>, Robert Blackshaw <blacks...@erols.com> wrote: [Turkish Delight]
>Maybe not the US, but it was available in Canada when I was >a youth. Since I find it overly sweet I have not sought it >out of late, so it may well be available here, I'm just not >looking.
You can buy it here in Seattle (at a Turkish store, natch). -- Debbie the Gruesome d...@halcyon.com "I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years." _Steel Magnolias_ Nicer people than me hang out at http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/index.htm
> >Cross the wide Atlantic to sleep on the floor in distant exotic Wales, > >full of strange exotic things like sheep, roundabouts, Turkish Delight, > >castles, standing stones, beaches with shells, bookshops, and cars that > >drive on the wrong side of the road. Be interrogated by Sasha! > And let's not slight the scones...my mouth's watering just thinking about > them...with that lovely thick cream.
> The *greenness* of the countryside. The hedgerows.
And the hills and Singleton park...did we mention the sheep??
Jo Walton wrote: > In article <360d9110.66489...@news.newsguy.com> j...@his.com "Janet Kegg" writes: > > But hey, what the heck is Turkish Delight? > It's a gelatinous confection, very sweet, that I've had to explain on > usenet a few times because, as David mentions, it's what the witch > gave Edmund in :The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe: and it doesn't > seem to have made it to NorAm.
Oh it has, at popular tourist destinatins such as Banff, Niagara Falls, and Ottawa -- any place were great hordes of people inclined to spend money on tacky stuff show up. It's carried in select candy shops (AKA sweet shops)
I've tried it (inspired, actually, by Edmund in "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe") and wasn't all that impressed. It has a one-note sweetness about it with no other hints of flavour or savour. No salt, no bitter, just pure sugary asinine sweetness. The batch I tried was very pale pink too.
Shirley
P.S. I won't be coming next year Jo -- with regrets. The "abode" thing and all that....
> It's very, very weird, that's what it is. I kind of like it once I'm > prepared for the flowery taste. Anyone know what the spice is?
I think it's just rosewater, but I don't know. They make Turkish Delight ice cream which tastes just like it, so it must be something.
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In article <361293D9.27BC6...@cnsvax.albany.edu>, Lorre <ls...@cnsvax.albany.edu> wrote:
> Jo Walton wrote: > > In article <360d9110.66489...@news.newsguy.com> j...@his.com "Janet Kegg" writes: > > > But hey, what the heck is Turkish Delight? > > It's a gelatinous confection, very sweet, that I've had to explain on > > usenet a few times because, as David mentions, it's what the witch > > gave Edmund in :The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe: and it doesn't > > seem to have made it to NorAm.
> It must have come to "Smallbany" with the Italians - I always see it > at our Italian delicatessens.
itailyums and our fud.
> Lorre
songbird *chirp*
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>> It's a gelatinous confection, very sweet [snip] it doesn't >> seem to have made it to NorAm.
> Oh it has, at popular tourist destinatins such as Banff, Niagara Falls, > and Ottawa -- any place were great hordes of people inclined to spend > money on tacky stuff show up. It's carried in select candy shops > (AKA sweet shops)
there's a "Turkish Delight" chocolate bar that's been available at every corner store in every town i've lived in. it's the sweet jelly enrobed in chocolate [just for you, kris].
On 2 Oct 1998 13:14:39 -0400, ag...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Angela C.
Lukach) wrote: >there's a "Turkish Delight" chocolate bar that's been available at >every corner store in every town i've lived in. it's the sweet >jelly enrobed in chocolate [just for you, kris].
Woohoo! Somebody's thinking of me! I wonder if anyone here has it; I'll have to go looking. Thanks!
Kris -- has...@teleport.com "She's snippy." -- An anonymous opinion of me. Oh, the embarrassment.
On 26 Sep 1998 11:11:48 -0400, J...@bluejo.demon.co.uk (Jo Walton) wrote:
>Airfares this year were around the $500 level.
I wish. Cheapest airfare I can find from here is $1100. Of course, it is quite a bit further from here than from the East Coast, even considering most flights go the polar route.
Kris (boinks are mostly so East-Coast-centric!) -- has...@teleport.com "She's snippy." -- An anonymous opinion of me. Oh, the embarrassment.
>I wish. Cheapest airfare I can find from here is $1100. Of course, >it is quite a bit further from here than from the East Coast, even >considering most flights go the polar route.
Don't let your hopes be dashed. Look again (check newspaper ads) after the first of the year and in early spring when the ticket resellers start advertising special deals, maybe something will turn up.
>I wish. Cheapest airfare I can find from here is $1100.
If I got anything under $800 from SFO, I'd be pleasantly surprised. Could probably get cheaper from LAX, but then I'd have to *go* to LAX. Eeegh. I still remember the sprint with carryon from DaBoink.
>Of course, >it is quite a bit further from here than from the East Coast, even >considering most flights go the polar route.
>Kris (boinks are mostly so East-Coast-centric!)
Yuppers. Us poor left coasters get double-scheduled on and everything...
OTOH, you can get from PDX to OAK for something like $120 for VDC&C and meet a bunch of "east coast" (note quotes) folks, who for this event, seem to have discovered that there IS air service west of Denver.
(Coulda knocked me over with a feather. Hasn't happened since I been boinkin'.)
>has...@teleport.com >"She's snippy." -- An anonymous opinion of me. Oh, the embarrassment.
*snicker* Was that from That Other Newsgroup? You go, girl.
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>Yuppers. Us poor left coasters get double-scheduled on and everything...
>OTOH, you can get from PDX to OAK for something like $120 for VDC&C and >meet a bunch of "east coast" (note quotes) folks, who for this event, seem >to have discovered that there IS air service west of Denver.
>(Coulda knocked me over with a feather. Hasn't happened since I been >boinkin'.)
Aren't there west coast boinks? There are west coast snigglers and northern California (including the Neutral Zone around the bay) is a nice place to visit.
James Nicoll
-- "[...] it's been about 12 years now that I've been singing this dumb song. You know, it's amazing that somebody could get away with singing a song this dumb for that long. [...] what's more amazing than that is that somebody could make a living singing a song this dumb for that many years. But, that's America."
>>>Kris (boinks are mostly so East-Coast-centric!)
>>Yuppers. Us poor left coasters get double-scheduled on and everything...
>>OTOH, you can get from PDX to OAK for something like $120 for VDC&C and >>meet a bunch of "east coast" (note quotes) folks, who for this event, seem >>to have discovered that there IS air service west of Denver.
>>(Coulda knocked me over with a feather. Hasn't happened since I been >>boinkin'.)
> Aren't there west coast boinks? There are west coast snigglers >and northern California (including the Neutral Zone around the bay) is >a nice place to visit.
Well, no. There haven't been *any* west coast boinks.
Kris (the next PortlandBoink will be #3) (and California *isn't* the whole west coast) -- has...@teleport.com "She's snippy." -- An anonymous opinion of me. Oh, the embarrassment.
>>I wish. Cheapest airfare I can find from here is $1100.
>If I got anything under $800 from SFO, I'd be pleasantly surprised. Could >probably get cheaper from LAX, but then I'd have to *go* to LAX. Eeegh. >I still remember the sprint with carryon from DaBoink.
Yesterday an attorney in the office where I work said I could get considerably cheaper fare...if I drive to Vancouver. Hello, that's a 6 hour drive! Plus whatever the flight is! But I'm going to check it out anyway, maybe next week.
>OTOH, you can get from PDX to OAK for something like $120 for VDC&C and >meet a bunch of "east coast" (note quotes) folks, who for this event, seem >to have discovered that there IS air service west of Denver.
Yeah! Dawnetta and I have been talking about driving (together). One way or another I think I'll be there.
>>has...@teleport.com >>"She's snippy." -- An anonymous opinion of me. Oh, the embarrassment.
>*snicker* Was that from That Other Newsgroup? You go, girl.
Well, actually it was apparently from somebody here. Fortunately my dearest Dawn defended me....on the other hand, some people *do* consider snippy a feature!
Kris (honor your inner bitch, says I) -- has...@teleport.com "She's snippy." -- An anonymous opinion of me. Oh, the embarrassment.
In article <36201282.115616...@news.teleport.com>,
Kris Hasson <has...@teleport.com> wrote: >Well, no. There haven't been *any* west coast boinks.
>Kris (the next PortlandBoink will be #3) (and California *isn't* the >whole west coast)
Kris, I don't understand your reasoning. PortlandBoink was certainly west coast, as are all the California boinks. There has never been a boink designated as "East Coast Boink", just boinks that people have put on in various parts of the east, exactly as there are boinks held by various people in different parts of the west. Please clarify . . . -- Debbie the Gruesome d...@halcyon.com "I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years." _Steel Magnolias_ Nicer people than me hang out at http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/index.htm
>Yuppers. Us poor left coasters get double-scheduled on and everything...
No kidding. Everybody seems to want those 3 day weekends.
>OTOH, you can get from PDX to OAK for something like $120 for VDC&C and >meet a bunch of "east coast" (note quotes) folks, who for this event, seem >to have discovered that there IS air service west of Denver.
Which, unfortunately, is the same weekend as CostumeCon to be held in Philadelphia. Another group seriously into fabric and chocolate.
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