My immediate thought was the plant. My grandmother had them
Angel: Yeah, I never told anyone about this, but I-I liked your poems. Spike: You like Barry Manilow.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 12, 2012 3:47:29 pm PDT #21882 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Ginger - Sep 12, 2012 3:47:58 pm PDT #21883 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
She'd be talking about the house plant. [link]
Hil R. - Sep 12, 2012 3:51:21 pm PDT #21884 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, thanks. A glance at wikipedia seemed to indicated that they only grow much further south, but I think I'll go with it being the plant, and that it was a bit of a joke/pun/whatever to put a plant with a name like that at the end of a list of church stuff. There are a few other times in these books where she does stuff like that with plant names.
Connie Neil - Sep 12, 2012 3:55:59 pm PDT #21885 of 30001
brillig
Do genteel lady competitive gardeners sneak into their neighbors gardens and sabotage their herbaceous contenders?
Jesse - Sep 12, 2012 4:00:48 pm PDT #21886 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yes.
Ginger - Sep 12, 2012 4:02:27 pm PDT #21887 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There was apparently considerable houseplant rivalry in that era. I read some other book in which women were boasting about having the best ferns.
Dana - Sep 12, 2012 4:03:09 pm PDT #21888 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
There's the occasional bits in the Anne books too about going to the Exposition and winning prizes for butter or crocheting.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 12, 2012 4:09:40 pm PDT #21889 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I just got to Beep Me, and want to offer much mom ~ma to Scrappy.
Pix - Sep 12, 2012 4:10:21 pm PDT #21890 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Scrappy, I'm so sorry. And Sean, sorry you can't go home.
Hil R. - Sep 12, 2012 4:11:47 pm PDT #21891 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
For books set on an island, these really don't mention the water or fish or ships all that much. There's the White Sands hotel in the first one, but that's about it. A few mentions in later books about taking a walk along the harbor road, or a pathway lined with clam shells, but the first time that there's a sailor or a fisherman as a character doesn't come until the fifth book. And with all the long descriptions of cooking and food, I don't think that anybody has eaten fish. I think there's a scene in one of the later books where one of Anne's daughters goes down to the docks, and there are a bunch of little shacks where the fishermen and their families live, and the kids all laugh at her because of her fancy clothes.