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- weenie_elise
- I'm a 30 year old legal administrator who is looking for escapism from the every day.
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- Oh, saucy!
- Cowardly custard? Never!
- Who's a Swiss Miss?
- Stuff this in your gob!
- Merely a trifle.
- Soon you will get your desserts
- "The finest housekeeper in the world"
- I'm relishing...
- High up, high on a mountain
- A punnet of monotony
- Soda pop!
- Edible Batchelor's
- Stewing in my own juices
- Edible Isinglass is a whole kettle of fish
- How many ways do you cook?
- Marketing - Beef
- The proof is in the pudding.
- Sifta Salt is best
- Egg-cellent!
- And visually
- Have yourself a mince-y little Christmas
- Why don't you just stock me?
- No other range has so many advantages
- Murder most fowl.
- Are you now or have you ever been...
- Lights, camera, action
- It's a mockery
- When Mrs Beeton was a little girl
- Mrs Beeton vs. the Vegetarian
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- well, I'm converted
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5 comments:
Shh... I don't believe Mrs. Beeton was ever a little girl. Immortally a wise, middle-aged woman.
which is rather ironic really, considering she died before she was thirty... allegedly from syphilis
No kidding? Wow. Her name always makes me think of somebody matronly. She certainly had a lot of advice about housewifery for somebody so young.
Well, really, in 1865 she WAS middle aged.
I wonder of the syphalis, as I wonder if lyme disease was about then, as it is the same spyrochete (sp) as that of syphalis, and nothing is a greater harbinger of infected deer ticks then full skirts and petticotes trailing through summer grasses, poor lamb.
allegedly she got the syphilis from her husband, but who knows if you can believe anything you read on wikipedia these days
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