St. Lawrence Market, Toronto

[sarah h]

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Just a tidbit about Stinking Bishop, brought to my attention by my daughter and described by Wikipedia as follows:

"The cheese was brought to international attention by a brief but important role in the Oscar-winning 2005 animated film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, in which it was used to revive Wallace from the dead. Demand for the cheese subsequently rose by 500%."

BTW Jim, as for shopping in Jermyn Street, your experience sums up the tone well (though they were very nice in the cheese shop) - while I enjoyed Jermyn Street, it's a bit out of my normal element. My trip was a sort of surreal experience - due to circumstances that would take too long to explain, I was a guest at one of the gentlemens clubs on Pall Mall where a long list of antiquated rules and customs prevailed, requiring, among other things, that as a woman, I be escorted everywhere within the premises when outside my room. I felt very conspicuous and sometimes frowned-upon ... all with great civility, of course! I was very happy to have had the experience but also relieved when it was time to return to the comfort of my far more ordinary circumstances!

[gjbingham]

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Sounds like my life in the Navy. Traditions that should have been tossed years ago still abound even now. Officer parties/affairs were surprisingly similar to your descriptions. God how I miss that!

[Frances]

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Gosh cool! I've only ever read Pall Mall in regency romances...

Errmm, not that I habitually read them you understand.... well ok, I may have glanced through one once.... briefly....

That must have been a very interesting experience!

[gjbingham]

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We can read between the lines Frances. You love those gooey books.

[Frances]

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You may not believe this, but I wrote an English lit University Theses on Mills and Boone romances. 100 Pages of it.

Long time ago.

Now there's an experience which stands me in good stead while building ovens and dealing with three lively children...!

[CanuckJim]

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Sarah, Frances,

Bertie Wooster rules, or at least he thinks he does, until Jeeves makes his entrance to repair the sticky wicket, and the day, what, from damage done by the sheila with the golf clubs. Have a read of "Aunts Ain't Gentlemen" perforce. I once had considerable dealings with a gent, unnamed, who had a posh palace on Pall Mall and a not too inconsiderable spot near Newmarket (earliest part sixteenth century, don't cha know, old stick, hard by the bluebell wood). The butler did everything, just like Jeeves. What ho! It's a different life, different culture; very fine, too, in some manifestations, despite the not moving your lips when you speak. Yucky food, at the time, better now, ceptin for the beer and the cider. You got some splainin to do, Frances. How in tarnation can a bodice ripper thesis prepare you for oven building and children? A conundrum to ponder.

Umm, it may becoming clear that dialects: English, Aussie, Canadian, Irish, whatnot, are a bit of a hobby horse (Laurence Stern) with me. Split infinitives notwithstanding .

Jim

[gjbingham]

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More smiles! A hobby horse? I bet when you speak them thar dialects, you sound like a local yokel.