Was there a movie? Seriously? What year was it made? Was it any good? I loved the book when I was a kid. It was up there with The Faraway Tree.

It's a Shirley Temple movie, which means it's been on TV here a gazillion times.

I would love to see that book, Casi.

I have a book about the history of America. It was written after WW1 but before WW2. It's really interesting to read about The War to End All Wars. They were saying that it was too early to judge the effects of that war (just called THE World War) and how it would take time for history to look back and make proper assessments.

So fascinating.

I'll look out for it. Cheers Bruce.

Shawnee, I'll grab a pic of the original and also the republished edition that I bought a couple of months ago.

Shawnee, I started reading the republished version of Mrs Beeton's last night. What it has over the original is that it provides explanations of various things.

e.g. "Drawing room decor was a miasma of ornamentation and colour. A bare room was not acceptable and householders liked to cover every surface with objects and bric-a-brac reflecting their particular aspirations and interests, while making sure everything was correct and nothing would jeopardize their place in 'polite society'. Often the room was adorned with heavy drapes and equally heavy mahogany furniture, bought to last and 'selected because it was correct, moral, worthy, not because it was attractive.' The drawing room was generally so full of furniture and bits and pieces that moving around often proved to be a hazard.

Pretty much every explanation is interesting. I chose this one as it's one of the first and I've always wondered why Australians (for example) have so much more clutter in their houses than say Latin Americans. The above is one possible reason. The other possible explanation is generally people have more money.

That does sound interesting!

Google found a PBS Masterpiece Theater show about her:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/...ton/index.html

Cool. Thanks for that. The website looks great.

ooh, alone with a bagpipe player . . . I can think of a few things to occupy the time