[GO] Being Tearful

"I have a dreadful time with some of the books Freya brings home from infant school. The worst one, which she has brought home twice, is called 'Badger's Parting Gifts' or something like that - in which Badger dies and all his friends are very very sad but then they start to remember all the good

Re: [GO] Re: Miss Ginty...

> > At Roedean the girls call the female staff Madam, by long > tradition. I've > never heard of this in any other school. At most UK schools > all female > staff, whether married or not, are likely to be called just > Miss. You have > to train the pupils quite hard to call you Mrs X or Miss Y.

[GO] BD

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[GO] crying books

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[GO] BD: TB

when we had the BCG, (born 1968) they dud a skin test first to see if you had the resistance to it, before deciding whom to inoculate, so obviously people could get the resistance without getting the disease. I heard that it is also spreading again a people who are prescribed antibiotics are not t

[GO] GO] GO Mumps etc.

I'm not sure whether that was the reason, or whether it was so she wouldn't catch something else in her weakened state ___ ate: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 19:03:04 -0800 From: "Lisa Spurrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ To: "Dorian E. Gra

[GO] (GO) OT: Puggle

Fascinating! I didn't know either that a puggle is a real word. Presumably Marea is a WIRES volunteer. regards, Elaine M -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/

Re: Re: [GO] Being tearful

I was reading The Railway Children last weekend. Bawling my eyes out at the"Daddy, oh my Daddy" scene while Matt laughed at me. I just avoid reading it anywhere but in the privacy of my own home. I also cry when Jack is lost at sea and Joey is not coping in Highland Twins. Getting teary just

[GO] OT: a sad goodbye

I thought it was a made-up creature, but I just googled & found out that a puggle is a baby platypus or echidna & the one I had looks just like the picture of the baby echidna at http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~fourth_crossing/a_puggle.htm Can't believe I didn't know this before! The bag it com

RE: [GO] Being tearful

Not having children of my own, I've never had the pleasure (or sorrow!) of reading aloud a sad ending to a small child (my friends know better than to pass their small things over to me!) But I have struggled to maintain my composure when reading aloud to a class of 30 11 year olds, especially beca

Fw: [GO] sad farewell

He was too far gone inside the bag for this. Jo "Oh Jo, you didn't have to chuck him out! You could have zapped him in the microwave to kill the bugs and then mended the hole! regards, Elaine M" Or put him in the freezer for a couple of days with the same effect. This method's recommended for the

Re: [GO] Being tearful

I forgot the House at Pooh Corner! That's an awful one And Daddy, my Daddy is one of the few that trigger me anywhere, any time. Outside Over There because the Daddy puts this awful burden on Ida to look after her little brother AND her depressed mother 'for her Papa who loves her always'

[GO] buying books

Yesterday Mandy and I travelled 2 1/2 hours each way, in nasty weather, to an Abbey meeting. Is that dedication or what? Anyway we got to a little town and there was one of those junky antiquey shops open so , having been there before and knowing they had books, we went in. I found five hardcove

[GO] Turner's Three Little maids

> > Ethel Turner was born in England though, so perhaps English attitudes are to > be expected. Her mother brought Ethel and her sisters to Australia when > she was about 10. A semi-autobiographical novel of her early life is "Three > little maids". > > "Three Little maids" is back in pri

RE: [GO] Being tearful

HelenRP said:...Reading aloud is definitely worse than reading something to myself. I stood in a bookshop and read 'Goodbye Mog' with not a tear in sight. But I'm quite sure if I read that aloud to the children I would be in floods of tears! Me: The Snow Goose always does it for me - especial

Re: [GO] Being tearful

Helen asked: What is it about Dogger? I think I've only read it once, and don't remember feeling particularly tearful. It's just a very ordinary kindness of a big sister to her little brother, I don't know why it makes me cry but it does, even after the umpteenth time. Unlike Tig, the end of Ou

Re: [GO] Being tearful

I have a dreadful time with some of the books Freya brings home from infant school. The worst one, which she has brought home twice, is called 'Badger's Parting Gifts' or something like that - in which Badger dies and all his friends are very very sad but then they start to remember all the good t

[GO] Being tearful

Natasha said: I do actually get teary quite often with books, which is fine if I am reading to myself but is a problem if I am reading aloud. I can't get though Shirley Hughes's "Dogger" without my voice cracking at the end, and I just did the same when reading reading the poem about Leerie the Lam

Re: [GO] Noel Streatfeild and being Tearful

Barbara wrote: Why didn't I like WTSW? I found it unpleasant and unrealistic at the same time. I am actually getting on with it a lot better now (about 3/4 of the way through), but it's not the best book of hers, nor the worst by a long shot. I know what you mean about it being unpleasant, that was

Re: [GO] No Boats on Bannermere

I take Sally's point about the dates of the two writers and also that Trease tackled a broader range of subjects in his books. I can never agree that Trease was a patch on Ransome as a writer. Sally wrote Oh, not that long! Swallows and Amazons was only 1930, 4 years before Trease's first book

[GO] Re: (GO) mumps etc

I've read of several cases of women who lived in Dublin's tenements in the first half of the 20th century (where TB was endemic) later having chest x-rays and being asked "when did you have TB?". They hadn't even known they'd contracted and recovered from the disease, That happened to my grandmo

[GO] No Boats on Bannermere - extra

I wrote; >But, personally, I do think Ransome is much more a > "safe" kind of writer, in that he only wrote one kind of book, To avoid confusion, I should say I mean he stuck to one kind of book in his "different" or groundbreaking work for children (i.e. the Swallows and Amazons books), not his

RE: [GO] Annual type book

Why do you think it's not quite an annual. I'd call it just that. It's exactly like many other of my annuals. Evadne Price wrote the Jane books and Bertha wrote a number of school stories though I don't much like her. It's not a very rare annual. Susan D > -Original Message- > From

[GO] Fw: re Go wsvs topic 4part 1 second try

I don't know if I sent this to the list or just to Marguerite! If I didn't you'll probably all have seen the mistake I made in the para she is talking about! Christine - Original Message - From: Wards To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 4:31 PM Subject: Re: re Go wsvs

[GO] OOC Sorry for html

Apologies for the last message in html, my change of username has also apparently upset all my other settings as well :-(. Lisa -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/ma

Re: [GO] mumps

Mumps plays a significant role in some of Noel Streatfield's books. In "The Bell Family", Ginnie's 'insatiable curiousity' causes her to be exposed to mumps, but she doesn't catch it. The Heath children in "Tennis Shoes" are less fortunate when they share a railway carriage with someone who turns

[GO] mumps

A question about mumps came up in an English computer program I am using with my second years - not a single one of them had ever heard of the mumps before. I think it's the first time I've genuinely felt Really Old. Avital (thought I found a crow's foot yesterday but it was only a smear of chocol

Re: [GO] GO Mumps etc.

- Original Message - From: "Dorian E. Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Of course, I don't think having the disease without noticing was a common > thing, but people *did* recover from it even before medication (as they > recovered from assorted other diseases). I think large numbers of peopl

Re: [GO] No Boats on Bannermere

I'm not going to put spoilers because I don't think I'm giving away any of the plot. - Original Message - From: "Barbara Dryden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm glad you partly enjoyed No Boats on Bannermere, Barbara! >Then there are hits > at the boarding school story, with Bill wondering why w

Re: [GO] GO Mumps etc.

The doctor did tell Mrs Linton not to attend public places, though, presumably to avoid infecting others. Lisa S - Original Message - From: "Dorian E. Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [GO] GO Mumps etc. as far as I've been able to tell, there wa

[GO] OT: Change of email

Please note that effective immediately my email address is:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Thanks,Lisa. -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For FAQs see

Re: [GO] GO Mumps etc.

Debra wondered... > Also I was wondering about TB - before antibiotics did people recover > spontaneously, or did the people thought to be threatened who didn't > actually die not really have consumption in the first place. Yes, I believe some people did recover, due simply to their own body's be

[GO] OT-Email Help

Some of you more technologically advanced people have helped me in the past, so I'm hoping you can do so again: I don't seem to be getting any emails - 48 hours with no GO?? Not possible. And I'm expecting other mail. I've checked my ISP's website page for me and it says there are no messages. Can

Re: [GO] Annual type book

I don't know about Bertha Leonard, but Evadne Price wrote a long series of 'Jane' books about an anarchic young girl, sometime regarded as a sort of female equivalent of Just William. I haven't read them, but some of them were reprinted fairly recently; and Cadogan and Craig discuss them in "You'

[GO] Book Finds

Hi Janice I seem to have an email problem in that I haven't received any post since Fri. night which is almost impossible. My ISP's website where I can log into my acc. says there are no messages for me, but having looked in GO's archives, there should be at least 2 digests by now. Don't understa

[GO] Annual type book

It's not quite an annual - more of a collection of short stories. Just come across it in a tidy up - it contains an EBD "Rescue in the Snows". Not a CS one, just a one off by the looks of things. Is it a particularly rare one? I've not come across it before. The book is called "My favourite stor

Re: [GO] evacuations

Not so funny, though, is she. Fen wrote Or indeed EBD, who isn't exactly egalitarian in her view of evacuees. -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: [GO] re Go Mrs Marlow miss Ginty etc

Marguerite said... > I seem to remember that Germany actually made it official that Frau could be > used by any adult woman,I don't know if since then [in the 1970s] it has > replaced Fraulein . Any one from Germany on the list.AFAIK there is no > equivalent to Ms in Germany or France. When I

Re: [GO] Illness and injury as plot devices

Shereen said... >Anyone got any thoughts about the scarlet fever epidemic in Masha? I can't comment on that one, I'm afraid, as I've never read the book. From the brief description you provide, it sounds like a combination of "help! What happens next?" and something that hadn't occurred to me:

Re: [GO] Illness and injury as plot devices

In "Jo returns. . . ." (EBD) Polly is elsewhere when she gets into mischief - can't remember if this is illness -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinf

Re: [GO] Noel Streatfeild books

Janice, are you sure you aren't me ? We seem to be of one mind about NS. I hate the Tennis Shoes parents so much that I can't even think of rereading the book, love the Bells (despite the shoddy editing that leads to the Ginny/concert incident being repeated in the second book), and enjoyed When th

[GO] Change of email

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[GO] Noel Streatfeild books

Barbara wrote: >I really dislike When the Sirens Wailed and the >>Thursday's Child pair. and Natasha replied: >That's interesting - I have been trying to read When the Siren Wailed all >week, and I am not getting with it at all. Never read it before. Why don't >you like it? Having done an (incomp

re: [GO] Book Finds

Rose wrote: >Also Lark in the Morn which I've wanted for ages since finding Lark on the >Wing. Also hbk with dw, but not 1st. >Another Elfrida Vipont - The Pavilion, hbk, dw, 1st 1969. Don't know it at >all, but looking forward to her style of writing. You now have the same three that I have, 'T

[GO] re "The Sugar and Spice"

Having seen all the messages on GO about this book, I bought a copy via abebooks. The story was charming, and, yes, I too would recommend it to others. However, I was slightly confused at times as it seemed to be very badly edited (like the Abbeys are in the 'Children's Press' editions...), even t

re: [GO] My ISP lost digests 32 and 33

Caroline Tabach asked: >Can anyone send the above digests? >thanks Done. Janice Brown -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For FAQs see http

[GO] Cutting puzzles EBD

Do you remember Jo and the Hobbies club, cutting fretwork puzzles? There was a demonstration of how it's done as a household industry on the television this morning. There is a compnay which makes them by hand, and supplies withut pictures. Apparently the cutting is so skilled that they are o

Re: [GO] mumps

My Mummy tried! I must ahev been about 15 when there was a measles epidemic but they said there wasn't enough to go round and I'd already had "measles" and "rubella" the dangerous ones for a girl and i couldn't have it. But guess who at the age of 27 has just recieved a letter form the health autho

RE: [GO] re Go Mrs Marlow miss Ginty etc

I'm a fan of Kommisar Rex an Austrian Police show (subtitled here) and they call all women Frau in that. Susan D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 5 November 2004 5:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GO] re

Re: [GO] WSVS Topic 4 -

The WSVS essays are wonderful and I particularly enjoyed this one because I know so little about Amercian children's literature except what I've picked up since joining Girls Own. On which note may I add that Mary's bed time story tomight was Chapter One of Betsy Tacy. Marcia (in wet, wet, we

RE: [GO] GO litigation

I've found that I've not even heard of many of the titles other team members have come up with but I have added a couple to my reading list. Susan D > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tig > Thomas > Sent: Saturday, 6 November 2004 3:20 A

[GO] evacuations

"For a heartless view of evacuation from the other end, i.e. the hosts, one should of course read Put Out More Flags, by Evelyn Waugh. Ha ha!" Or indeed EBD, who isn't exactly egalitarian in her view of evacuees. Fen = Fen Crosbie _

[GO] sad farewell

"Oh Jo, you didn't have to chuck him out! You could have zapped him in the microwave to kill the bugs and then mended the hole! regards, Elaine M" Or put him in the freezer for a couple of days with the same effect. This method's recommended for the teddies of asthmatic kids to kill the dust mit

[GO] mumps

"There I was, wandering along pondering epidemics in GO, when my eye was > caught by one of the huge posters that have sprung up on campus about a > predicted mumps epidemic. Apparently if you were born between 1980 and > 1987 you should be afraid. Very Afraid." Not (coff coff) if you had the s

RE: [GO] epidemics going OT

I think that, maybe, the vaccine MMR was not so readily available then , Pam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 November 2004 11:51 To: Shereen Benjamin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GO] epidemics going OT No

Re: [GO] Abbey Series + Connectors

On 7 Nov 2004 at 4:23, Jules M wrote: If anyone has a copy from the Penrith City website I would be very appreciative. That site is back online at http://home.pacific.net.au/~bcooper/popular.htm and I also recommend http://www.bufobooks.demon.co.uk/html/faq8.html and http://www.bufobooks.demo

Re: [GO] Noel Streatfeild; was Mrs Marlow

Did you read Sue Sims' article in a recent Folly about writing about the war at the time, as NS did in Curtain Up, The Children of Primrose Lane and others, and writing about it as a past event, as she did in When the Sirens Wailed? I very much agreed with what Sue said. Although the book aims f

Re: [GO] OT: a sad goodbye

OK OK. What is a Puggle ??? On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:45:22 +1030, Jo Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I know it's not as bad as saying goodbye to a live animal, > but I had to throw out my Puggle today which I have had since > I was about 12 (I'm now 40!). It has been sitting on my

Re: [GO] OT: a sad goodbye

At the risk of sound paranoid, it is worth investigating further, especially if the chest of drawers contains clothes. I would have a good check to make sure that is the ONLY infestation. Natasha - Original Message - From: "Jo Robins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ":GO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

Re: [GO] GO Mumps etc.

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 23:05:42 -, Debra Grice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wasn't born in the danger slot but I have never had mumps, even when my > brother and best chum succumbed in 1972. Should I be afraid, very afraid, > or can I assume some sort of immunity? I had German measles twice, but

[GO] No Boats on Bannermere

Spoilers seem to be in order for this, which I consider silly for a book published in 1949 but here goes. S P O I L E R S I have just read this, the first Bannermere book for me. Now, this is a case of me and Dr Fell, so don't get offended, Trease fans. I simply don't like GT. I find the histori

RE: [GO] No Boats on bannermere - SPOILER

> > My copy of this has just arrived and I am delighted > with it. I've only read Geoffrey Treases Maythorne > books before and this was a particularly good read. I > read most of it last night and on the train this > morning. I also looked up the 4 sequels on amazon, > abe, ebay etc and regretfu

RE: [GO] Re: Miss Ginty...

> > At Roedean the girls call the female staff Madam, by long > tradition. I've > never heard of this in any other school. At most UK schools > all female > staff, whether married or not, are likely to be called just > Miss. You have > to train the pupils quite hard to call you Mrs X or Mi