Feb 16 2020 - What Time is Sunday Dinner

Sunday Dinner used to happen after church in our house, That would have been around 1:00pm.  My brother and I were trying to figure out how it all worked.  The stove oven could be preset to start at a set time.  That made for the robust smell of roasting beef and potatoes when we came back from church.  That's a great Sunday dinner experience.  The Sunday Roast is a traditional British main meal to be eaten after church on Sundays.  My research says that a Sunday Roast should be served at 3:15pm in the afternoon. That information comes from a poll reported by House Beautiful in their article on Sunday Dinner.  The poll also reveals the meal itself:  There should be three slices of beef, four roast potatoes, and gravy all over the plate.  In Britain, one would have Yorkshire Pudding or stuffing as well.  There would be vegetables such as peas or brussel sprouts. And of course a dessert such as apple crumble.  Another UK poll found that Sunday Dinner is ranked second in a list of things people love about Britain.  Do you know what they ranked first?  The 'bacon butty' is number one - that's the name for a bacon sandwich (Hp sauce, worcestershire sauce, white bread, butter).  Number 3 was a cup of tea.  Doesn't this speaks for what the British love the most - food and their culture. Here are the top 20: 1. Bacon sandwiches 2. Roast dinners 3. Cup of tea 4. British history 5. BBC 6. Big Ben 7. Buckingham Palace 8. Countryside 9. Fish & Chips 10. Yorkshire Pudding 11. English fry up 12. British sense of humour 13. Cheese 14. Lake District 15. The Queen 16. Sunday lunch 17. Aston Martin 18. Cornish pasties 19. Stonehenge 20. National Heritage Harry Potter takes 38th place over Stephen Fry who is in 48th place.   But then James Bond took 32nd place. When I looked at this list reported in the dailymail.co.uk  I could immediately see how the British voted for Brexit.  I think of this as going beyond self-appreciation to the point of narcissism (it is called collective narcissism - a belief in national greatness).  My prediction for Britain after Brexit - the big surprise on finding out their nation's importance and true worth isn't what they decided it should or would be.  The Bacon Butty is going to cost more soon.  But then, we're on the topic of the tradition of the Sunday dinner and there's much to appreciate in the tradition they gave us.   One of Brian's Lilycrest Lilies is on show today.

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Catalogue Countdown

The Eaton's catalogue was a mail-order catalogue published from 1884 to 1976.  Each summer, sometime in August the catalogues would arrive from Simpson's-Sears and Eaton's and my friend Janet and I would go through every page, deciding which items we liked best.  So our August was a very busy month of decision-making.  By the 50's and 60's they weren't selling houses and barns in the catalogue - that was earlier decades.   The Travelchannel.com site says that there is no shortage of fun things to do in August - fro the PGA Championship and US Open to the world's biggest food fight, and the world's longest yard sale.  I forgot that this is the month for the Burning Man Festival in Black Rock Desert, NV.  As the site says:  "Aug 28 - Sept 5 The Man burns in 38 days!" What will you do in August in the Golden Horseshoe area?

Winter's Retreat to Lilycrest Gardens

Winter's cold winds are gusting across the Grimsby landscape so it is a good time to retreat to the landscape of summer's beautiful Lilies.  These are in Brian's Lilycrest Gardens hybridizing field, in St. Catharines on Fifth Street, close to the QEW.