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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (13478)	11/2/1997 10:56:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm trying to stay awake, Mephisto, so I can commiserate with how tired you are. This very sunny, warm weather with blue skies and flowers blooming in November has me very worried about whether we will soon be having sixty mile per hour winds blowing the trees down, and flooding in the streets. When I got up today I went for a very long walk because it was so summery, and since then I have just felt like having a siesta!!! So before I slump over the keyboard I should say I have not had time to keep up with Charles and the young princes. It is hard to read garbage magazines if you don't have enough energy left to get to the supermarket, obviously, and that would be me this weekend. I do think there is a public relations campaign by the Palace to make Charles look like a good father at the moment, to limit the damage from the Diana tapes Morton used to update his book after she died. I think Prince Harry is awfully young and fragile to be going through such an ordeal, although he has the advantage of still being enough of a child that he can hold his daddy's hand and get a lot of hugs and cuddles that William surely wants and needs as well but is too old to feel comfortable with. Harry was already going to be repeating a grade before this all happened, so I bet it is a struggle for him academically. Anyway, William consoled himself with meeting the Spice Girls!! That whole British upper class boarding school system is a very cold way to rear children. I hope William and Harry feel free coming home as much as they want to for awhile, and travelling with their father, because just shoving them back at school seems horrible. What were you doing in the garden, Mephisto?

To: Mephisto who wrote (13478)	11/12/1997 1:24:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi, Mephisto!!! It has been a little lonely at the Feelings thread, being the only girl there recently and everything. I hope you aren't so tired of dodging bullets that you've gone away for good or anything!! I planted all my bulbs in the garden yesterday, with my daughter's help. I dug up the ground, and she put the bulbs in with the growth stimulator dust and covered them up. I must admit I got a little lazy with what turned out to be over 250 bulbs (after I finished going crazy at the garden center). I started out with very organized little collections of three to five bulbs in each sweet little hole, but at the end I was digiing foot-long furrows and just lining them up in there. Now I am going to spend the winter sitting all bundled up on the patio, watching them push through the earth. I found a little blurb in Newsweek that amused me, and I thought you might like to see it, also: Education Princess Diana 10l Americans are constantly defending the intellectual merits of pop culture as college curricula. Now Germans are joining the fray. On Nov. 6 Berlin's Free University launches a new lecture series titled "Myth and Politics: Diana, From the Princess of Wales to the Queen of Hearts." The not-for-credit series of 13 interdisciplinary lectures explores parallels to Evita Peron and the Virgin Mary, among others. Says political scientist and series organizer Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten: "As social scientists we are interested in trying to understand [the Diana phenomenon]." What have you been up to, anyway? I have a bunch of very soft persimmons that are starting to drip, actually, so I am going to create a recipe for persimmon/walnut/date bar cookies with orange glaze? Doesn't that sound good? I have become too lazy to make anything other than bar cookies, since making a hundred little balls and flattening them out or whatever is very time consuming, and anyway I think bar cookies are chewier and taste better anyway. It's too bad there is no recipe in any of my cookbooks!!!! I guess using one for applesauce bars or something would be the closest. Do you ever cook like that, Mephisto, making it up as you go along?