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

2004-11-07 Thread Janice Brown
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

re: [GO] Book Finds

2004-11-07 Thread Janice Brown
Rose wrote: snip 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,

Re: [GO] Illness and injury as plot devices

2004-11-07 Thread Dorian E. Gray
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: an

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

2004-11-07 Thread Dorian E. Gray
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 was

[GO] Annual type book

2004-11-07 Thread Emma DW
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 story

[GO] Book Finds

2004-11-07 Thread Rose Humphreys
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

Re: [GO] GO Mumps etc.

2004-11-07 Thread Dorian E. Gray
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

Re: [GO] GO Mumps etc.

2004-11-07 Thread Lisa Spurrier
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 was

Re: [GO] No Boats on Bannermere

2004-11-07 Thread Sally Dore
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

Re: [GO] GO Mumps etc.

2004-11-07 Thread Sally Dore
- 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 people (most

[GO] No Boats on Bannermere - extra

2004-11-07 Thread Sally Dore
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] Being tearful

2004-11-07 Thread Tom Tash
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

[GO] Turner's Three Little maids

2004-11-07 Thread Judith Ridge
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 print,

[GO] buying books

2004-11-07 Thread Rickard/Paulson
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

[GO] OT: a sad goodbye

2004-11-07 Thread Jo Robins
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

[GO] BD

2004-11-07 Thread Caroline Tabach
I am enjoying reading all the BD essays very much, thanks to those who write them. Caroline Tabach [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.788 / Virus Database: 533 - Release Date: 01/11/04 --