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

It's the end of November, so this will be the last NaNo journal writing for many of us.

It's also St Andrews Day, and so one of the biggest events in the Scottish Dancing calendar. We had our annual Ball last night, which went pretty smoothly. There were about 85 dancers there - a bit down on numbers from the previous year, but everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. There was some great dancing to the live band, who were a local group. I wore my fab tartan skirt which I bought at the St Andrews summer school earlier this year, with it's little matching fabric corsage. I wear it with a black top, but I am on the look out for a green velvet or red silk corset/ bodice type to give alternatives.

This morning, the weather was crisp and clear, so we took the dogs over to Mount Stewart, which has some astonishing trees and formal gardens. I made bacon butties when we got home.

Tonight I am doing a slow-roast pork dish, with a Korean barbecue sauce called Bulgogi.

A Happy St Andrews Day to all my readers - thank you for your company during the month, and have a great December.

Bisous

Thanks for all the posts, and happy St Andrew's Day to you!

Is there that owre Korean Bulgogi,,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or bacon butty wad mak her spew
Wi perfect scunner,
Looks down wi sneering, scornfu view
On sic a dinner?

As Robert Burns did NOT say...

I don't think Robert Burns got as far as saying that. The cholesterol would have got the best of him halfway through.

Or not.

oh Bulgogi - I adore it. If only I weren't too lazy to make it!

Bulgogi sounds delicious, but I don't think I've ever had it. Korean restaurants are rare in my area.

There's one on Prospect St, Cambridge if that's anywhere near you. Or at least there was about a decade ago. The smells coming out of it would drag you into the place.

I think Paul is in the states?

My recipe was a case of: go to tesco. Buy jar of tesco bulgogoi sauce.

It was...alright, but we've made nicer stuff ourselves. The slow roast pork worked well, though.

Well New England has a lot of British place names. Harvard is in Cambridge MA.

and... California, as far as I'm concerned, is just up the road from me, on the coast.... (California next the sea, BTW) There are two Cambridge's in the UK... and I think at least two in the USA if I recall correctly

There's a California not far from me, too. Near Eversley, Hampshire.

And there's a Pennsylvania just north of Bath.

OOO! didn't know about the one in Hampshire! Its kinda cool though... bumping into someone in Suffolk/Norfolk, and telling them "Oh, I'm off to California, for the day...."

Okay, it's y'all's fault.

I found a photo of the hamlet of Pennsylvania, named by Quakers, complete with its only petrol station. I showed the photo to Elektra.

'Where's that?' she asked.

'Pennsylvania,' I said.

'Where in Pennsylvania?' she wanted to know.

'No, no,' I replied. 'Pennsylvania. In South Gloucestershire. It's near Bristol.'

'Bristol's near Philly,' she said. (It is, it's in Bucks County.)

This went on for quite a while...

I still remember the trip I made that went past Denmark, Lucerne, and Nice in about 2 hours

Massachusetts has towns with names like Florence, Peru, and Mount Washington.

There's a California in Derby too, as well as a New Zealand and a Dunkirk. See A1153009

there's a village called Jerusalem near here

And did those feet, in ancient times,
Walk upon England's mountains green....

Is there also a town nearby called Jam?

(it's not in England)

So many things arn't in England though. Some things are though. its the things that are in England, and in somewhere else, that get really confusing though... Mind, of course, it wasn't that long ago, we didn't have any potatos in England... and look where all that turbble got us... If only Columbus had found the IPad in stead of the potato... just think....

England is in Schleswig-Holstein.

(I thought I'd already posted this, but must have got waylaid)

http://www.google.com/maps/place/England,+25845,+Deutschland/@54.4918747,8.8718288,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47b487a7f055ddcd:0x2be2fcef77e9c346