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Editor's Note
Welcome May flowers, Mother's Day and Memorial Day this month! All of us are eager to enjoy the full beauty of spring and making special memories during the holidays this month. We hope you are too.
In the Tea News Bits this month, you'll read about a letter that founds it way to its intended receiver 68 years after it was mailed. When you read this, we are sure a certain Brit Com will come to mind! So we thought, why not include an article this month about a true favorite to complement the connection. We are betting you know exactly whom we are talking about!
We are sad to inform you that Mr. Edward Bramah, the founder of the Bramah Museum of Tea and Coffee, has passed away. You might remember seeing him speaking with Heather when she visited London which we showed you between the weekday Brit Coms. We've included an article that tells you about his life and how the museum came about.
Pledging allegiance, UK-style. Read all about what is being proposed under the direction of Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Pork tenderloin for Mom? It sounds good to us so we thought we'd share this recipe with you. It sounds easy and it's grill-worthy!
We hope everyone has a great Mother's Day and a happy and safe Memorial Day.
Cheers!
The Tea Times Newsletter Staff
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They Say It's Your Birthday!
Do you share a birthday with any of these people?
May 6, 1960
Roma Downey – actress
May 9, 1936
Albert Finney – actor
May 10, 1960
Bono – Bono, singer, member of U2
May 16, 1953
Pierce Brosnan – actor, "James Bond"
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Dame Judi Dench: A True Great
Dame Judith Olivia Dench, (born 9 December 1934), usually known as Dame Judi Dench, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Tony, three-time BAFTA, and six-time Laurence Olivier Award-winning English actress.
In Britain, Dench has developed a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her main forte throughout her career. She has more than once been named number one in polls for Britain's best actress. Furthermore, she gained worldwide popular fame through taking over the role of M in the James Bond film series in 1995, and subsequently through many acclaimed film appearances.
Judi Dench was born in York, North Yorkshire to Olave (nee Jones) and Reginald Arthur Dench and was raised a Quaker. She also lived in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester. Her notable relatives include Emma Dench, eminent Roman historian previously at Birkbeck, University of London, and currently at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. When Dench was thirteen, she entered The Mount School, York.
Before starting her professional career, Judi Dench was involved in the first three productions of the modern revival of the York Mystery Plays the 1950s. Most famously, she played the role of the Virgin Mary in the 1957 production, performed on a fixed stage in the Museum Gardens.
She received her dramatic training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and made her professional debut as Ophelia in Hamlet in Liverpool in 1957. She subsequently spent several seasons in repertory in Oxford and Nottingham. In 1961, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made numerous appearances with the company in Stratford and London over the next two decades, winning several best actress awards. Among her roles with the RSC, she was the Duchess in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in 1971.
Finty, Michael and Judi.
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In 1971 Judi Dench married British actor Michael Williams and they had their only child, Tara Cressida Williams (aka "Finty Williams"), on 24 September, 1972. Their daughter later became an actress like her parents. Dame Judi starred with her husband in the 1980s British sitcom, A Fine Romance. Michael Williams died of lung cancer, at age 65, in 2001.
Dench has also made numerous appearances in the West End and with the National Theatre in London. She is a multiple winner of the main awards for performances on the London stage, including a record six Laurence Olivier Awards. She has also appeared with success on Broadway in Amy's View, and has occasionally directed plays.
As she enters her seventies, Dame Judi remains probably the biggest draw on the London stage. She is often compared and contrasted with Dame Maggie Smith, another British actress of the same generation, with whom she has appeared in several movies, including the 2004 Ladies in Lavender, and on stage in David Hare's two-hander Breath of Life. She returned to the West End stage in April 2006 in Hay Fever alongside Peter Bowles, Belinda Lang and Kim Medcalf.
She has finished off a busy 2006 with the role of "Mistress Quickly" in the RSC's new musical version of The Merry Wives, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Her many television appearances include lead roles in the series As Time Goes By and A Fine Romance.
Dame Judi Dench has frequently appeared with her close friend Geoffrey Palmer in the series As Time Goes By and in the films Mrs. Brown and Tomorrow Never Dies, both filmed in 1997. At the opening of As Time Goes By, the couple first shown in the photographs is in fact Judi's real-life daughter, Tara, and Geoffrey's real-life son.
Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Elizabeth I in the film Shakespeare in Love. Dench's win was notable as her performance lasted for about eight minutes.
Dench's late-life film career has been remarkably successful. Until 1997, she had made relatively few film appearances, especially in comparison to the number she has made since then. She has racked up six Oscar nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997, her Oscar-winning turn in Shakespeare in Love in 1998, for Chocolat in 2000, for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 (with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman), for Mrs. Henderson Presents in 2005, and for Notes on a Scandal in 2006.
In 2006, Dench received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nominations, for her fierce performance in Notes on a Scandal.
She [recently completed] filming the BBC One miniseries The Cranford Chronicles, based on the Cranford books by Elizabeth Gaskell. The series co-stars Francesca Annis, Michael Gambon and Imelda Staunton.
Programming note: Re-titled "Cranford" for PBS, this three-part miniseries airs Sundays at 9pm, beginning May 4.
The Insider, by Michelle Street, August 2007
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Tea News Bits
May Programs
The last two episodes of Carrier air on Thursday, May 1 from 9-11 pm. However, if you missed any episodes of this spectacular series, tune in on Saturday, May 3. Beginning at 10 am and running through 8pm, MPT will be broadcasting the complete Carrier series from episode 1 through 10.
If you enjoyed Carrier, stay tuned after its conclusion on May 1 at 11 pm for America's Team: Being a US Air Force Thunderbird.
A reminder that Monarchy with David Starkey will be on Sunday, May 4 and 18 at 11 pm. From the viewing numbers we are seeing, this appears to be a program you are enjoying!
Several MPT-produced programs are being aired in May for the first time. The Transformation Age: How to Survive a Technology Revolution with Robert X. Cringley will be on Tuesday, May 6 at 10:30 pm and again on Thursday, May 22 at 9 pm. This program is a co-production, with the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Foster Care Stories: A Place to Be is brought to you on Thursday May 15 at 8:30 p.m. This program was made possible by the members of MPT, the MPT Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
It's barbecue time! MPT is proud to bring you the third series of Steven Raichlen's barbecuing expertise. Tune in on Saturday, May 10 at 1 pm for the premiere episode of Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen. Episode 2 will be on Saturday, May 17 at 1pm. But we know you'll want more to prepare for your Memorial Day celebration so on Saturday, May 24, you can learn from the master from 12:30 to 2:30 as you watch Episodes 3 through 6. Enjoy!
The National Memorial Day Concert airs on Sunday, May 25 at 8:00 p.m.
Be sure to watch your favorite Brit Coms on the Saturday evenings of May 3 and 24. The Brit Coms will be on each week day afternoon as well.
Do you remember the painted window and door screens in Baltimore? If so, for a walk down memory lane, be sure to watch Painted Screens. If you've never seen this type of folk art work before, sit back and enjoy a truly dying art.
What does that mean?
One of our viewers, Patricia K, wrote to us suggesting we ask our viewers to write to us about terms they hear on the Brit Coms that they are unfamiliar with and would like to know their meaning. We think perhaps this might be fun! So let's try it! Drop us a line at tealady@mpt.org if you have a term you would like explained and we'll try to list several every month to try to clear up the confusion!
Love letter finds its way home after 68 years
The author of a 68 year old love letter that was stolen in a burglary has been traced by Hertfordshire police. The letter was written by a lady called Monica in May 1940 from an address in Eldon Avenue, Borehamwood and posted to the author's new fiancé Gunner Bill Miller, who was then stationed at Aldershot Barracks. She was writing to express her delight at his marriage proposal just the day before in Kew Gardens.
The very well preserved letter was found in a bag believed to have been dumped in Strafford Gate, Potters Bar, by a burglar who was arrested after a series of house burglaries in the locality. It has been traced back to Monica Miller, now aged 98, who lives in a local care home.
In a happy twist, Monica did end up marrying Bill and having a family. Her son, who lives in Bristol, has expressed his gratitude at the return of the letter. He said: "I want to say thank you to everyone who has responded to this appeal. We are very grateful to have the letter returned - it's obviously of great sentimental value to my mum and family. She'll be so glad to have it back."
Hertfordshire Constabulary Property Officer Brian Foran retrieved the letter and decided to approach the local press in an attempt to trace its rightful owner. He said: "I'm so pleased it will be returned to Monica. It's such a lovely letter and was written to mark an important milestone in Monica's life. It's wonderful to have a happy ending."
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
Orphan pony finds love at last
A tiny Shetland foal orphaned on Christmas Day has finally been fostered by another pony after several unsuccessful attempts to unite her with a replacement family.
Ruby was taken to Redwings Ada Cole Rescue Stables, in Epping Road, Nazeing, at just two months old after losing her mother unexpectedly to an illness. Educated staff at the sanctuary worked round the clock for six weeks to ensure Ruby was bottle fed and cuddled throughout the day and night, giving her some of the love she had lost when her mother died. But the 25-inch blue and white foal was becoming too familiar with people and had forgotten how to interact with other ponies.
Centre staff were concerned she was not learning how to be like a pony and develop natural instincts. Estate manager Ron Teague said: "You have to be careful when they spend too much time around humans and that's why it was important we introduced her to other ponies. But when we put her with a group of other Shetlands they seemed confused by Ruby's particularly small size and didn't know what to do."
Eventually her carers tried matching her with Hamish, an 11-year-old Skewbald Shetland, who has been at the sanctuary for eight years. The outlook was not promising because normally a new foal would bond with its mother rather than father. But despite the age gap and the odds stacked against them, the pair instantly got on.
Mr. Teague said: "The introduction worked and Hamish and Ruby are a bit like an adopted dad and daughter." He added: "The lady who owned her really tried to look after her but it became too much and so she asked for our help. It's been very much a team effort from everyone, feeding her at 3am and again at 5am, but we can relax now knowing she has Hamish to keep her company. He has been a star."
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
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Obituary
Edward Bramah: Museum founder and tea expert
Edward Bramah was the founder of the Bramah Museum of Tea and Coffee, which first opened on Butler's Wharf, near Tower Bridge in London, in 1992, and is now based in Southwark.
The idea for the museum had come to Bramah 40 years earlier while he was working on a tea plantation in Malawi. In 1950, a chance meeting on a train with a tea planter had led Bramah, fresh out of National Service with the Royal Navy, to join the tea trade. Later he trained as a tea taster with J Lyons & Co. But, in 1954, he suddenly switched to coffee, joining a coffee brokerage firm, which sent him to Tanzania and Kenya. He recalled starting out on the slopes of Kilimanjaro and recently described his life as "a double career in tea and coffee."
Bramah joined China's national tea trade corporation in 1956 with a brief to encourage China tea consumption. He worked in London liaising with Shanghai and conducting conversations with Chinese diplomats through an interpreter, but the post was a victim of the Cultural Revolution.
In 1966, sensing that tea was losing its appeal, he founded his own company, Bramah Tea & Coffee, and began designing coffee filter machines, including the Bramah Filter. He began by examining early coffee machines and these discarded models formed the basis of his museum collection.
The original location for the museum was the Clove Building on Butler's Wharf, where tea had once been traded. But in 1992 the south end of Tower Bridge was not part of the tourist trail and Bramah began a long dispute with Southwark Council about signage. In 1999 the collection moved across the road into a former tea warehouse, which at first seemed ideal. However, two years later, following a collapse in visitor numbers, the museum closed.
In 2002, to the surprise of many, it reopened a mile away in Southwark Street, near the newly opened Tate Modern, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and the relaunched Borough Market, which were all attracting crowds.
The Bramah Museum's history of tea-drinking began with Catherine of Braganza who introduced Charles II's courtiers to the drink. Bramah's teapots ranged from a Chinese blue-and-white porcelain example dated 1690 to 20th-century Goss. Some were exotic or in the form of an animal, such as a camel. But still most popular with visitors are old tea labels such as Home & Colonial, Horniman's, Lipton's, Maypole, Mazzawatte and Ridgways.
Bramah included the invention of the tea bag. "That's not my cup of tea any more than instant coffee is coffee to a German or Scandinavian," Bramah would tell visitors. "There are no better things in life than tea and time." He liked to allow a newly filled pot to stand until sand had run through an outsized egg timer. Among examples of coffee brands, he had a wooden box of Camp coffee displayed along with early coffee pots, percolators and 20th-century steam-operated machines.
Bramah was proud to have among his ancestors the 18th-century inventor Joseph Bramah who held patents for the improved water closet and the "unpickable" Bramah lock. Another relative was Sir Joseph Banks, who had introduced the tea trade to India.
Edward Bramah had a reputation as a slightly obsessive enthusiast, although he was recognized as probably the only world authority on tea and coffee. He nearly always appeared good-humoured and optimistic, although his years running the museum were an enormous and lonely struggle for him. His project was often short of money and bills sometimes went unpaid. He regularly slept on the premises and for a time seemed to rely on charging Americans high prices for afternoon tea. But the tea shop was an important living exhibit and not just a handy addition. At least two of his pianists, recruited by Bramah "to add a touch of elegance," had also played at the Ritz.
Oversees tourists still make up a significant percentage of visitors. Bramah's first book, Tea and Coffee: a modern view of 300 years of tradition (1972), was translated into Japanese and today many who seek out the museum are visitors from Japan. In 2003 Bramah was delighted when the Japanese ambassador posed with him beside the Bramah Teapot, the world's largest, which requires 4lb of tea when used.
Together Bramah and his wife Joan wrote Coffee-Makers: 300 years of art and design (1989) and four years later he produced Novelty Teapots. In 2005 he devised The Bramah Tea and Coffee Walk Around London guidebook, which records the many buildings and sites in the City and on the riverside connected with storage and tea auctions.
Despite his illness, Bramah continued working on a book which was to be called Britain's Tea Heritage.
www.independent.co.uk
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Britain considers pledge of allegiance
similar to U.S.
by Jeffrey Stinson, USA Today
London – Britain is considering having school children pledge allegiance to Queen Elizabeth just as Americans pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag.
A pledge to the monarch, which would be given at a "coming of age" ceremony when children graduate, is part of a series of proposals delivered to Prime Minister Gordon Brown in an effort to instill a greater sense of citizenship.
Also proposed: a new public holiday to celebrate "Britishness" that would be similar to Australia Day, which Australians celebrate every Jan. 26 to reflect national pride.
The proposals were made by Lord Peter Goldsmith, a former British attorney general. Brown asked Goldsmith last year to review aspects of British citizenship and the rights and responsibilities that accompany it.
Brown sought the review at a time when Britons have been increasingly concerned about an influx of immigrants, questioned whether its policy of multiculturalism was creating separate enclaves within British society and shocked that so-called "homegrown terrorists" were involved in attacks like the July 7, 2005 London transit bombing that killed 52 passengers.
The proposals are bound to stir controversy.
Baroness Helena Kennedy, a civil rights lawyer and member of the House of Lords, told BBC that she saw giving a pledge of allegiance as "an empty gesture."
 I pledge allegiance to the Queen?
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"To ask 16-year-olds to troop into a hall and like Americans put their hands on their heart and take an oath of allegiance is risible," she said.
Goldsmith told BBC radio that if anti-monarchists might object to pledge allegiance to the queen they could swear an oath to the nation.
Having a ceremony for teenagers upon graduation from the equivalent of high school would act as a right of passage and promote social cohesion, Goldsmith said.
"We already teach schoolchildren what citizenship means, but it would make sense to have a coming-of-age ceremony which marks the moment they move from being a student of citizenship to being a real citizen in themselves," he said.
Having a national British holiday would be "an opportunity to celebrate that we do belong to a nation," he said.
Britain doesn't have a national holiday similar to the Fourth of July or Thanksgiving in the USA, when Americans can display their patriotism or give thanks for the freedoms they enjoy.
In a preliminary report in October, Goldsmith suggested that schoolchildren should take part in the ceremonies for foreigners taking British nationality. He also recommended clarifying legal responsibilities of citizenship, changing treason laws and updating verses to the British national anthem "God Save the Queen," which is the same tune as "My country tis of thee" sung in the USA.
Before any of the ideas could take effect, Brown's government would have to propose them and parliament would have to approve them. Downing Street said Monday that Brown would review the requests before commenting.
www.usatoday.com
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Becoming Jane Austen
The True Love Story That Inspired
the Classic Novels
by John Spence
Part of a continuing series.
The first certain link between the Austens and Warren Hastings came in early 1759 when Phila and Tysoe moved to Calcutta and became friends of Hastings and his wife. Maryland Hasting's second child, a daughter, had been born but soon died the autumn before, and Mary herself had never regained her strength. She died a few months after the Hancocks came to Calcutta.
Phila and Tysoe were still childless, a state often taken to indicate that they had a bad marriage. Tysoe, though, once wrote to Phila: "I am certain nothing shortens a woman's days so much as her being married when too young," that is, by beginning to have children so young. Perhaps they purposely waited until Phila was older and more acclimated to the conditions in India before they had a child. Hancock was a physician and so knew more about human physiology than most people. In December 1761 Phila had her first and only child, a girl they called Betsy after the daughter Warren Hastings had lost in infancy. Hastings was Betsy Hancock's godfather.
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There were rumours that Phila had been Hastings' mistress. Lord Clive wrote to his wife that there was no doubt Phila had "abandoned herself" to Hastings, but he makes no mention that Hastings was Betsy's father. That seems to be a later assumption. Hastings himself never acknowledged paternity. A few months before Phila's daughter was born, Hastings sent his four-year-old son back to England and put him in the care of George Austen. This too may indicate that George knew Hastings before he went to India. Whatever the origin of George's connection with Warren Hastings, he was entrusted with the care and education of the boy.
Odd as such an arrangement seems now, it was not so unusual at the time. There was a long tradition of Oxford scholars taking responsibility for the care and education of a child. It was a way scholars had of making ends meet. The Hastings boy might have remained in George Austen's care for many more years, but in the summer of 1764 the child died, only a few months after George had married Cassandra Leigh and taken up his duties as rector of Steventon in Hampshire.
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Tea Advisor
Aspects of Tea Production
It was Chinese policy to treat all foreigners similarly. As a result it concluded treaties with the other major trading nations, France and America, on broadly similar lines to that of Britain.
Much as China had been humiliated in the Treaty of Nankin, implementation did not completely satisfy the British. There were disputes as to whether the British merchants had the right to settle permanently within Canton, disputes over representation in Peking. Opium had not been legalized. In consequence, the British did not allow it through their treaty ports. Nevertheless, a flourishing trade in smuggled Indian opium still operated along the coast. Lord Palmerston, still Foreign Secretary in 1850, considered the whole settlement inadequate:
The time is fast coming when we shall be obliged to strike another blow in China...these half-civilsed governments such as those in China, Portugal and Spanish America, all require a dressing every eight or ten years to keep them in order.
Matters came to a head in 1856, when the Chinese arrested the crew of a suspected pirate ship, the Arrow. Lord Palmerston, after sixteen years as Foreign Secretary, and short spells as Home Secretary, had now become Prime Minister. He was now even more belligerent than at the time of the first Opium War. The British public loved his rhetoric:
As the Roman, in days of old, held himself free from indignity, when he could say Civis Romonus sum; so also, a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.
The British consul at Canton and the Governor of Hong Kong mounted a naval attack on Canton, and captured the Chinese Governor-General's residence. In retaliation foreign factories outside the walled city were burned, and rewards were offered for the death or capture of the British. Palmerston now saw his opportunity to finish business with the Chinese. Another expeditionary force was assembled under Lord Elgin. Following the murder of one of their missionaries, the French joined the British.
Tea | By Roy Moxham
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Mystery of the Month
What Is Your Guess?
Case One
A man stretches as far as he can to save a woman from falling fifty feet below, but misses. Without a scratch on her body, the woman stands up and walks away smiling.
The Mystery
Who is the woman and why does she survive the fall unscathed?
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Clues
- A crowd watches the accident nervously but does nothing to help.
- Even though te man fails to catch her, she does not hold a grudge.
- The woman's life is never truly in any danger.
- The woman works hard for a living, but is a real swinger.
- The woman performs under a big tent.
Case Two
A boy enters the bedroom of a young woman and her siblings. He does not use the door to enter, even though the young woman's room is three floors up. His primary purpose is to find something he's left behind. When his business is concluded, he leaves by the same means he used to arrive.
The Mystery
Who is the boy and what was he looking for?
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Clues
- The boy is famous for his adventures.
- The young woman is British.
- The young woman and her siblings are little Darlings.
- He felt as though he'd lost part of himself.
- Some say the boy will never grow up.
Be sure to check the June 2008 edition of the Tea Times for the answers
Answers to April Mysteries:
Case One: Frank is a police officer who was added to the lineup.
Case Two: The train station is in Germany and the three people don't speak German.
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England's Calendar of Events | May
Oxford May Day
Oxford, England
May 1, 2008
Centuries-old traditions are upheld for Oxford May Day by the population of this student town, who gather in their thousands to hear the choir of Magdalen college sing in the new May dawn from the top of their chapel tower.
The night of 30 April starts with parties throughout the town, the best being a huge outdoor affair at Port Meadow (please confirm that this is happening before you make travel plans for it), a field that has been common land since medieval times. Although most forsake the meadow for Magdalen Bridge during the early hours of the morning, should you stick around till sunrise, Morris Dancers appear complete with trademark bells round their ankles to dance in the new day.
Large crowds gather at the Magdalen Bridge from about 5am - it's a good idea to get there early for a spot. Foolhardy students have been known to attempt spectacular jumps into the rushing river, but as the Cherwell is only about six feet deep and the bridge quite high, a spate of injuries led to the closure of the bridge in 2006.
As the choir starts to sing the Medieval Eucharist hymn from the tower of Magdalen College, the raucous crowd goes quiet. No one knows when the tradition of May Day dawn singing began, but records go back to the 17th century, and it could stretch back further still. Whenever it started, the beauty of the ethereal voices of these little boys soaring out into sudden silence so early in the morning is very moving.
After the singing the crowd gradually disperses, many flocking to the breakfast picnics thrown in the college gardens, impromptu cricket matches, and the many pubs that open especially early by special dispensation to sustain the flagging revellers.
www.whatsonwhen.com
Spalding Flower Festival
Springfields, Spalding, England
May 3, 2008
Established in 1959, the Spalding Flower Festival attracts around 250,000 visitors every year. The parade features over a dozen flower floats, each covered in thousands of tulip heads, accompanied by marching bands, vintage bicycles and many other colourful characters.
The floral floats are also on static display at the festival site within the 25-acre landscaped Springfields Gardens from the morning of the parade, before leaving for their colourful journey around the town in the afternoon. Visitors can also witness the floats being carefully adorned with the thousands of blooms.
This year is the event's 50th anniversary and the theme is appropriately, "Thanks for all the memories."
www.whatsonwhen.com
South of England Fireworks Championship
Battersea Park, London, England
May 10, 2008
London's Battersea Park hosts one of the five qualifying heats for the British Fireworks Championships. Three leading firework companies compete for the title of South of England Firework Champions and a place at the national finals in August.
As night falls, each of the three companies (Pyro 1, Skyburst the Firework Company and Imperial Fireworks) have ten minutes to produce an unforgettable display of colour and light.
www.whatsonwhen.com
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Pork Tenderloin with Mustard Sauce
It's time to fire up the grill! Mom will appreciate this on her special day.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds pork tenderloins
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup bourbon or apple juice
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon dry mustard
- 1 tablespoon minced onion
- 1 1/2 teaspoons white vinegar
Preparation
Prick pork tenderloins several times with a fork.
Combine soy sauce, bourbon, and brown sugar in a shallow dish or zip-top freezer bag; add tenderloins. Cover or seal, and let stand 30 minutes at room temperature, or, if desired, chill 8 hours.
Remove pork from marinade, discarding marinade.
Grill, covered with grill lid, over medium-high heat (350° to 400°) 12 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer inserted into thickest portion registers 155°. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing.
Stir together sour cream and next 4 ingredients; serve with pork.
Note: Pork tenderloins may be baked at 500° for 20 to 25 minutes, if desired, instead of grilled.
www.myrecipes.com
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Afternoon Teaisms
Rhymes and Wits
Motherly Advice
We've all been given advice by our Mothers but we thought it would be fun to list the universal advices that we are fairly certain most of us have heard once or twice! Do these bring back some memories for you?
- Make sure to change your underwear always; you never know when you'll have an accident.
- Don't make that face or it'll solidify in that position.
- Be careful or else you'll put your eye out.
- What if everyone jumped into a well? Would you do it, too?
- You have enough filth behind those ears to grow potatoes!
- C'mon close that door! Were you born in a barn?
- If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all.
- Don't put that thing in your mouth; you don't know where it's been!
www.dayformothers.com
A Mother's Love
A mother's love determines how
We love ourselves and others.
There is no sky we'll ever see
Not lit by that first love.
Stripped of love, the universe
Would drive us mad with pain;
But we are born into a world
That greets our cries with joy.
How much I owe you for the kiss
That told me who I was!
The greatest gift--a love of life--
Lay laughing in your eyes.
Because of you my world still has
The soft grace of your smile;
And every wind of fortune bears
The scent of your caress.
Copyright: Nicholas Gordon | www.poetseers.org