h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not to mention the Diet of Worms...

Don't know Sellars and Yeatman?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0413772705/customer-reviews/qid=1060348566/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/026-1747735-9408459

This story thing is quite difficult to keep track on. BTW, this has to be a new record of most LEDs in less than 24 hours.

Phil, the two beers we sent to the GBBF were Cart Blanche and Dark Moor. But I have just looked at the BGGF website and they only mention the Cart Blanche

The Dark Moor is my fav, I took a pin (36 pints) with us to Arran and it went in an evening. It did look on the way over in the back of the 'B'!

I am hopeless at History, I can never remember stuff like you guy's

Toc, back to pulling nails out of the floor.

I think the board person is bluffing, Lil. He probably assumes that everyone must have something to hide... because he has.

Is the hypothesis under discussion that 1066 didn't matter because the changes would have happened anyway one way or another or are we saying that the changes were in fact minor in the cosmic scheme of things?

I'm another King Arthur.

*wanders off to find a round table*

Agghhh, typing and grammer no good either! sorry about the extra '

Turns out I'm a 'historian' as well

Don't worry about it, Toc.

Excellent Toc A few beers on the list I recognised and a bunch of brewers local to here as well. Must get round to going again one of these days, I'm sure MC would enjoy the cider bar as well

1066 and all that is quite possibly the best history book ever. I particularly enjoy the descriptions of the Scots cheating at Bannockburn and William, the Giant Orange.

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Yay! Last night I found out that my wild plum jam won first place at the Western Montana Fair, as well as Best in Show in the jam-jelly category! I'll share the recipe with anyone that's interested, just as soon as I find a copy.

With this many King Arthurs, we need as big a Round Table as we can get.

You go girl! Sweet!!!!!!!!

Hypatia, there were actually 2 Defenestrations of Prague. The one most folk know about, and one that happened about 100 years earlier (they only threw out one person, and it it was a minor Czech functionary, not imperial employees) He lived too. I guess the Czechs aren't great at picking windows.

Lil, there *isn't* a lot of written records for the period in Europe, but there's an increasing amount of archaeological evidence, and there's an intriguing and wonderful world of contemporaneous Arabic documents that is really starting to add to the scholarship.

Which may be why the term is going out of fashion.

1066 is more of a bump in a continuous path, rather than the wholesale moving of the road...if I may use such a metaphor.

Two of them! Even better.

FG, do you use the red sand plums? My mom used to make jelly with those and it was wonderful. I'd love the recipe.

Uh, the plums I use are only known as "wild plums" out West. They grow all over the place, but my favorite patch is in a little valley in central Idaho, where there also abundant blackberries. The plums grow in "rows" on the branch, just like domesticated plums, and they come in two colors, a yellow with a pink blush and a deep red. They're about the size of a cherry tomato. Does this sound familiar at all?

No, the sand plums are about the size of a prune plum. The trees are sort of shrubby, but they make actual trees if you prune and train them. They're very tart and require a lot of sugar.

So what do they call the small purple plums that are very sweet ?

There are at least 27 varieties of domesticated plums so that isn't a very easy question to answer

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