Hi Kathie, i have read Newby a long ago..he wrote one more something Hindukush also..nice wry british sense of humor but lot of things seen through colonial lenses.
We were talking of a travel-cookbook related to India. I should look up the name.
> Both 'Dennis the Menace' and 'Peanuts' originated in > Northern Calif. where I grew up. They were typical of > suburban life in single story, spread-out houses built > around there. It was easy to visualize families like > theirs -- parents appreciated the clean gentle humor. > Kathie
hi kathie one common feature between the two Lucy" van Pelt in peanuts and Margaret Wade maggie
the know it alls
were girls like them common too in Ca? just joking
i am quite interested in early years of churchill in india. reportedly there is a club there which has records of his unpaid bills.
could somebody recommend a book on this.
one of the very few politicians of the world to get a nobel for literature( kennedy got a pulitzer) churchill used to stutter or have a lisp and overcame it to become one of the greatest orators of all time(the Stuttering Foundation of America uses Churchill, pictured on its home page, as one of its role models of successful stutterers)
we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
one humorist hearing this speech reportedly remarked " what a fine description . it sounds so much like our family holiday"