[quote=""Carla""]Would it be Making Money? If so, snap! I gather it features a run on a bank - prescient or what? (Pity the bank in question wasn't called Petra Borealis).[/quote]
Yes, that's the one Carla. Sorry not to answer yesterday.
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Did You Get a Book for the Holidays?
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
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Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
I got a 50 Gift card for Barnes and Noble and hubby recieved one as well which he passed on to me. I also recieved In the Shadows of Lions by Ginger Garrett. With My gift card I ordered The Chosen and Dark hour Also By Ginger Garrett and the non book item I ordered was the 2009 Tudors Wall calendar.
[quote=""diamondlil""]Basically the same thing I think, except the cooking bowl in a slow cooker comes out from the unit whereas a crock pot was pretty much all in one.[/quote]
Nah, the crock pot I have passed down from my grandmother is older than I am and it's ceramic bowl comes out. In fact the heavy duty crock is almost stoneware like, is oven safe and is enormous. So it gets use making stews and cassoulets in the oven whereas the heating unit just sits on a shelf somewhere collecting dust.
Comparing the new slow cooker my sister has, I'd say it is merely an updated version that has a more sophisticated heating element and inner cooking surface liner and you can actually brown in them (at least this one you can). The old crock pots I don't think you really could. But essentially I think they are the same thing. It's just a marketing ploy to convince people that it is brand new and sounds better than "crock".
Just stay away from Sandra Lee and her semi-homemade SLop cookbooks. Another sister got one as a present from someone who obviously doesn't know my sister very well. It ended up serving as a read-aloud/laugh hysterically aloud entertainment Christmas morning.
Nah, the crock pot I have passed down from my grandmother is older than I am and it's ceramic bowl comes out. In fact the heavy duty crock is almost stoneware like, is oven safe and is enormous. So it gets use making stews and cassoulets in the oven whereas the heating unit just sits on a shelf somewhere collecting dust.
Comparing the new slow cooker my sister has, I'd say it is merely an updated version that has a more sophisticated heating element and inner cooking surface liner and you can actually brown in them (at least this one you can). The old crock pots I don't think you really could. But essentially I think they are the same thing. It's just a marketing ploy to convince people that it is brand new and sounds better than "crock".
Just stay away from Sandra Lee and her semi-homemade SLop cookbooks. Another sister got one as a present from someone who obviously doesn't know my sister very well. It ended up serving as a read-aloud/laugh hysterically aloud entertainment Christmas morning.
I bought books as gifts for several other family members, but did not get a book myself so the day after Christmas I ordered a couple.
I did, however, get a lovely "book related" present -- a silver Thor's hammer amulet. After reading Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series last fall, I told my daughter, that like Uhtred, I needed one.
I did, however, get a lovely "book related" present -- a silver Thor's hammer amulet. After reading Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series last fall, I told my daughter, that like Uhtred, I needed one.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. (1873) -- Louisa May Alcott
[quote=""lindymc""]I did, however, get a lovely "book related" present -- a silver Thor's hammer amulet. After reading Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series last fall, I told my daughter, that like Uhtred, I needed one.[/quote]
And now you're protected every day ...
And now you're protected every day ...

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. ~ Charles de Secondat
I did, indeed, get books for Christmas ...
Thanks, Lindymc, for all our beautiful books!
- Antony & Cleopatra, Colleen McCullough
- The Spring of the Ram, Dorothy Dunnett
Thanks, Lindymc, for all our beautiful books!

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. ~ Charles de Secondat
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