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text: It's hard to keep a good man down. Or for that matter a good woman. Or for that matter a good nonprofit art space. The name Fort 105 Studios may be a thing of the past, but the exhibit and studio space is still alive and well under the new leadership of director Joshua Franco. Now called the Downtown Contemporary Art Center (105 Fourth Street SW), the space will unveil its new self with a solo show of paintings by Stacy Hawkinson, opening this Friday with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. I'm told the paintings will be discounted to benefit Hawkinson's son's musical education. The show runs through Nov. 1. 242-1983.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Russian scientists say decades of drilling have culminated in their reaching a lake buried beneath antarctic ice for 20 million years.
Researchers say Lake Vostok, the largest of Antarctica's buried network of icebound lakes, could reveal new forms of life and show how life evolved before the ice age.
"Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3,768 meters [12,362 feet] and reached the surface of the sub-glacial lake," a source with the research team told RIA Novosti Monday.
Some scientists believe the ice cap above the lake has created a seal that has prevented lake water from escaping or anything else from getting inside for the 20 million years the lake has been buried.
Lake Vostok could also offer clues to the possible existence of life in similar extreme conditions on Mars and on Jupiter's moon Europa, researchers said.
Future plans include sending robots down into the lake to study its waters and sediments, they said.


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I really can't express how frustrated I am right now.
As someone pointed out years ago in the loco mailing list… does firstname.lastname@example.com actually work, or is it just routed to dev/null?
How is it possible that it takes several months, or even years, to give a LoCo team an answer on a request ticket? Do we LoCos suck that bad?
Can YOU help me with any of these?
- The Central American community needs their forums merged. This was approved by the Forum Council six months ago.
- The Classroom-es project (official project of the Spanish LoCos – already organized three Open Weeks, two User Days, etc) needs a mailing list @ubuntu.com.
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Green Hope Weekly Wrap-Up 2/12-2/18
Bradley Stewart, Sports Editor
February 19, 2018
Filed under Men's Basketball, SPORTS, Women's Basketball, Wrestling
Men's Basketball: Green Hope competed in the first ever Tri-6 Tournament last week. The team won the regular season championship and earned a bye in the tournament. Their first game was in the semi-final against Jordan. The Falcons pulled out a squeaker 67-63 win. Chuck Hills led the team...
Green Hope Wrestling Grabs Two Conference Wins
Alex Price, Staff Writer
January 11, 2018
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Wednesday, the 10th of January in 2018 will go down in Green Hope Wrestling history as the team battled to two big victories. The two matches would determine the team's 2017-2018 season. The first dual, a TRI-6 conference match against Athens Drive, was a must-win for Green Hope in order to make it ...
Wrestling Falls to Ravenscroft
Alex Price, Staff Writers
December 13, 2017
On Saturday, December 9, Green Hope wrestled against Ravenscroft. The match was originally a quad, meaning that there would be four teams competing, but both Franklinton and Hillside decided not to compete, turning the match into a dual. Unfortunately, Green Hope received its third loss of the season at...
Falcons Finish Fight for 55
Abbie Daltorio, Sports Editor
April 5, 2017
Filed under Baseball, CROSS COUNTRY, FALL SPORTS, Fight for 55, FOOTBALL, Indoor Track, Men's Basketball, Men's Golf, Men's Lacrosse, Men's Soccer, Men's Tennis, Outdoor Track, SHOWCASE, Softball, SPORTS, Spring Sports, Swimming, Volleyball, Winter Sports, Women's Basketball, Women's Golf, Women's Lacrosse, Women's Soccer, Women's Tennis, Wrestling
North Carolina is home to the two greatest rivalries in sports history: the UNC and Duke rivalry, and most importantly the Green Hope and Panther Creek rivalry. Last night men's tennis defeated Panther Creek to clinch the eighteenth and final point needed to win the Fight for 55. This is the se...
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Abbie Daltorio, Sports Editor
February 17, 2017
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Friday, February 10 Women's basketball defeats Athens Drive 55-45 -women finish first in SWAC Men's basketball defeats Athens Drive 66-54 -boys tie for second in SWAC Women's swim places fourth at States Men's swim places 12th at States Saturday, February 11 3 ...
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February 3, 2017
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The past week has been a huge week for Green Hope sports. Here's a recap of the scores for all of the games that have happened this week. There is a basketball quad tonight at Cary and swim has Regionals tomorrow. Friday, January 27 Women's basketball beats PC 51-43 Men's basketball b...
Falcon Face Off: Smackdown
Will Hoffman, Staff Writer
January 12, 2017
Green Hope Places Second in Grapple
Katie Bradley, Sports Writer
December 8, 2015
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The Green Hope wrestling team, led by Coach Chip Bunn, is off to a 6-2 start for the 2015-16 season. The starters on this team of 58 wrestlers are Tyler Couture, Caleb Andreu, Riyaadh Winquist, J.J. Dodds, Quentin Couture, Aidan Callahan, Lucas Laszacs, Collin Laing, Ryan Sollod, Sean Kelly, Andrew Becvar,...


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Women tend to be more likely to experience a disruption in their lives, both in terms of health, lifestyle, etc. look up. One of them is hair that has always been the center of attention for women and of course the hair is part of the body which requires special care on a regular basis like the other limb. Sometimes there is in part of a woman willing to reach into his pocket deep only for body care, face and hair in the hope her appearance will seem more attractive and pleasing to the eye.
Hair can also be regarded as a symbol of female beauty and handsomeness of men. Men who have a hairstyle that is charming, neat, smooth and fragrant of course the main attraction. But what if the hair becomes a pride plagued by problems such as hair loss and dry hair up to the men to go bald ?? Dry hair tends to fall off easily and the amount of hair loss can be in bulk or a lot.
This is due to the possibility of error in making beauty hair care hair to be reduced, before knowing how to care for dry hair falls out easily, identify in advance the causes of dry hair and loss, as follows:
1. Hair exposed to the direct beam sunlight for a long period of time without protection.
2. How to dry your hair wrong and excessive. For example, use a blow dryer when the hair is still wet after shampooing or combing excessive hair when the hair is dry or wet.
3. Hair that is colored in a long time to make the hair follicles become weakened and easily fragile.
4. The use of chemicals contained in hair care ingredients to be absorbed by excessive hair root and hair follicles that make hair nutritional deficiencies and protein essential for the health and growth of hair.
5. Use a hair dryer with a temperature that is too hot and distance with hair that is too close.
6. terlau often or seldom wash to make hair lose balance.
7. Changes in the body's hormones are not normal.
8. The effect or side effects of the use of certain drugs.
9. While suffering from a peyakit.
10. Living the recovery or the healing of a particular type of disease.
After knowing what causes the hair to become dry and cause hair loss.
Here will be presented How can a good way of treating hair to prevent hair from drying and easy to fall off, including:
1. Stop for a moment of order hair salon
If you frequently do a treatment at the salon to help care for the hair, should be stopped first moment it aims to avoid and prevent the hair from the use of tools which can damage the hair salon as a hair dryer, bouffant, chemicals are often used to mask hair curlers hair and so on. Tersbut tools commonly used for hair care salon with warming temperatures high enough to damage the hair growth so perkembanagan and easier to dry hair which leads to hair fall out easily. Try to treat the hair by hand sndiri and use natural ingredients that is around us, as many natural ingredients that can be used as an alternative best choice for hair care, such as lemon, avocado, lemon and so on. Allow hair to rediscover its beauty and hair can develop optimally.
2. Do not tie your hair while sleeping
Generally makes a woman has long hair, tie your hair often during sleep, in fact this is the wrong way and will only torment the hair so that the hair roots can not breathe properly. Unleash your hair when sleeping and do not tie your hair too tight and avoid tying the hair while sweating. Remove first sweat on the head, after a rather dry hair may be tied. It aims to avoid the hair so as not to stink.
3. Do not wash it every day
Production of oil or oil glands in the scalp every person must be different. There are some people who have high levels of oil in the scalp allowing it to wash it every day, those who had higher levels of oil in the scalp with normal size advised not to wash it every day, just 2 days. That hair is not easy brittle, dull, dry and fall off easily.
4. Do not scratch your scalp when shampooing or when itchy scalp
When we wash sometimes unconsciously scratching your scalp excessively and then later raised the pain and sore scalp. This will make the scalp irritation, reduce hair's natural moisture produced by the scalp.
5. Avoid wash with hot water
Washing with hot water will only make the hair becomes miserable and make hair become damaged, wash and rinse your hair with cold water so that the roots of the hair does not suffer and lose nutrients.
6. Comb hair properly
Combing hair is a simple way that is often done every day of our lives. But those that combing hair in the wrong way. Combing the hair in the hair is still wet circumstances and using tooth comb. Try combing with a wide-toothed comb that hair is not easy to fall off and fragile and do not comb the hair in a state still wet, wet hair tends to be more brittle than the hair in the dry state.
7. Use a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner or hair that suits your hair type
Use a shampoo that fits the criteria or the type of hair, then apply a wash hair after using hair conditioner or moisturizer. Use a moisturizing conditioner or hair from the middle to the end of the hair, not on the scalp. The purpose of using a hair conditioner or moisturizer to keep hair dry and brittle and not easy to help provide extra nutrients to the scalp.
8. Use a hair mask if the hair is dry and damaged severely enough
If the hair feels dry and damaged enough in a state of severe, use a hair mask of natural ingredients that are made from several types of fruit or mix your own hair mask by hand if not you can also buy in stores or supermarkets. Choose a hair mask out of natural ingredients, such as olive oil, avocado, honey, essential oils and so on.


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With the government's assistance, a group of scientists are able to form GUN VALKYRIE, an organization bent on protecting these new breakthroughs and policing their use. When Dr. Hebble suddenly disappears and a host of nightmarish creatures appear, the GUN VALKYRIE unit is called upon to retrieve the scientist, destroy the vile creatures and return order to the world by force.
- Ignite massive battlegrounds in action-packed firefights filled with atmospheric hazards as you explore massive environments disrupted by over-advanced technology
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- Eight distinct types of customizable weaponry!
- Striking graphic images based on Japanese animation! Extremely popular in the U.S. and Japan, GUN VALKYRIE features a world famous Japanese animation graphic style called "Japanimation technique" making shading effects in the game tremendously vibrant.


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The news the Columbus Blue Jackets were entertaining offers for star right winger Rick Nash sent a jolt of excitement through a rumor mill that had grown stale from a stagnant trade market.
It's rumored Nash, who has a no-movement clause, has provided a "wish list" and Damien Cox of The Toronto Star said he could "confirm" the Toronto Maple Leafs were one of the teams included. The Columbus Dispatch reported the Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers and San Jose Sharks are also believed to be on the list. Other clubs rumored to have interest are the Vancouver Canucks, Detroit Red Wings and Philadelphia Flyers.
The Dallas Stars weren't listed, but GM Joe Nieuwendyk admitted to contacting Howson regarding Nash and said he expects a number of his peers to do the same. Nieuwendyk declined to confirm if he was seriously pursuing Nash.
One would assume there would be considerable excitement among the punditry covering the teams Nash could join, but early returns suggest otherwise.
Mike Zeisberger of The Toronto Sun believes Leafs GM Brian Burke should pursue Nash – regardless if it wipes out Burke's stockpile of young talent – but Howard Berger of The National Post says Burke's focus should be on improving his goaltending.
Nash would undeniably be a star with the Leafs, but he won't address their specific need for scoring up the middle. Adding his expensive salary would also ensure center Mikhail Grabovski would be lost to free agency (sorry, Leafs fans, he won't accept a "hometown discount" to stay in Toronto), further weakening them at center.
Larry Brooks of the New York Post expressed concern the Blue Jackets' asking price would hurt the Rangers' chemistry, writing that Howson could ask for center Derek Stepan and/or defenseman Ryan McDonagh, along with prospect left winger Chris Kreider and maybe even center Brandon Dubinsky.
Brooks also believed left winger Artem Anisimov and puck-moving defenseman Michael Del Zotto would be of interest to the Jackets.
Boston-area scribes called on the Bruins to pass on Nash, citing the potential asking price (goaltender Tuukka Rask, center David Krejci or left winger Milan Lucic, prospect defenseman Dougie Hamilton and a first round pick) as too costly.
The Canucks are considered by some observers a prime trade partner, as they could offer up goalie Cory Schneider as the centerpiece of a package offer for Nash, but Ed Willes of the Vancouver Province pointed out the Canucks couldn't afford Nash's salary.
The Canucks already have a considerable chunk (currently $31.6 million) of their annual average payroll invested in the Sedins, Roberto Luongo, Ryan Kesler, Kevin Bieksa and Dan Hamhuis, who also have no-trade clauses in their respective contracts.
Don't expect the Detroit Red Wings to plunge into the Nash sweepstakes. The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press reported Wings GM Ken Holland is more interested in rental players who can help his club down the stretch and in the post-season.
As for the Philadelphia Flyers, Sam Carchidi of Philly.com cited a source claiming Flyers management hadn't had any conversations with the Blue Jackets regarding Nash.
The potential asking price for Nash, plus his average annual cap hit of $7.8 million through 2018, has thrown a scare into most analysts. We'll find out in the next 10 days if GMs feel the same.
In non-Rick Nash-rumor news:
• Forget about the Edmonton Oilers conducting a deadline "fire sale." GM Steve Tambellini re-signed defenseman Andy Sutton earlier this week to a one-year extension and said he has no intention of trading left winger Ryan Smyth or center Sam Gagner.
Tambellini is also talking contract extension with Ales Hemsky, but the right winger's desire for a long-term deal could be his ticket out of Edmonton.
• Minnesota Wild defenseman Marek Zidlicky could be on the move soon, but it might not be to New Jersey after all.
Earlier this week, it was reported Zidlicky had agreed to waive his no-trade clause to join the Devils, but Wild GM Chuck Fletcher claimed he'd never been approached by the Zidlicky camp about that. Fletcher surely wants to move the unhappy blueliner, but on his own terms. He may shop around for other options that would net a better return before being cornered into a deal with the Devils. It's also possible Fletcher could hang onto Zidlicky until the summer when Zidlicky's trade clause becomes limited, providing him with more potential trade partners.
• Montreal Canadiens left winger Andrei Kostitsyn said he hasn't asked for a trade yet, but suggested the next couple of games will determine his course of action.
Kostitsyn, an impending UFA, had expressed a willingness to accept less than market value to remain in Montreal, but in recent games he's been in coach Randy Cunneyworth's doghouse.
• Tampa Bay Lightning GM Steve Yzerman has become a "seller" and made his first move by shipping center Dominic Moore to the San Jose Sharks Thursday.
Gritty left winger Ryan Malone has been rumored as a trade candidate, but it's believed Yzerman's preference is to retain him.
One Bolt who'll be changing addresses soon is defenseman Pavel Kubina, as Yzerman reportedly asked him to provide a list of preferred destinations.
It's thought the Rangers would be on Kubina's list, as he's previously played for Rangers coach John Tortorella when he was the Lightning's bench boss several years ago.
Rumor Roundup appears Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only on thehockeynews.com. Lyle Richardson has been an NHL commentator since 1998 on his website, spectorshockey.net, and is a contributing writer for Eishockey News and Kukla's Korner.


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Lee Bo Young sends food truck to Pinocchio set
Actors are friends for life! Lee Jong Suk's former I Hear Your Voice co-star Lee Bo Young supported her 2013 leading man and the director and writing team from her drama with an elaborate food truck. Pinocchio shares the same director and writer from I Hear Your Voice. In addition, the the two Lees have expressed their close friendship on various interviews.
"Bo Young, I will enjoy the food. I'll get energized by eating a lot and produce a good drama," the actor stated with a photo of himself posing in front of a poster of the pretty actress.
She supplied the hard-working cast and crew with 100 servings of delicious Korean cuisine. Photos of everyone enjoying their hearty meal were released online over the weekend.
See Joo Won and Shim Eun Kyung make beautiful music together in Tomorrow's Cantabile
The drama's representative reiterated the news about her ongoing friendship with the main actor and crew in an official statement. They further disclosed that she sent the truck to their current filming location.
Pinocchio co-stars Park Shin Hye, Kim Young Kwang and Lee Yoo Bi. The story about the lives of young reporters at a broadcasting station airs every week on DramaFever.
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The figure which Pepino tragically was prevented from playing was the polymath aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, explorer and famed importer of tobacco and gallant cloak-thrower, Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618.) He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1591 for his secret marriage to Elizabeth Throckmorton, lady in waiting to the Queen, without royal permission. He was again imprisoned there in 1603 for his involvement in the Main Plot against James I . After his return to England following his unsuccessful second expedition in search of El Dorado and the sacking of a Spanish outpost, he was arrested and executed in 1618. See Philip Lucas.
"Rape of the Lock" ~ See Pope's "Rape of the Lock."
Raphael's Sybils ~ after Lucia's triumphant use of Mrs Brocklebank's letter to demonstrate her fluency in la bella lingua, Elizabeth Mapp continued to argue the point. Elizabeth rose and pointed at Diva like one of Raphael's Sybils saying "Diva to this day, I don't believe she can talk Italian. It was a conjuring trick, and I'm no conjurer but a plain woman and I can't tell you how it was done. But I will swear it was a trick!"
The Sybils or Sybils receiving instructions from Angels is a painting by the Italian artist Raphael (1483- 1520). Painted in 1514 it was commissioned by the papal banker Agostino Chigi to decorate the interior of Santa Maria della Pace in Rome.
Raschia ~ an ancient Egyptian priestess who employed Daisy Quantock's psychic medium Princess Popoffski for automatic writing.
Recondite ~ the day after Major Flint and Captain Puffin's unfortunate drunken contre-temps with Miss Mapp in the street in the late night fog, the gentlemen had pondered a good deal during the day over their strange reception in the High Street that morning and the recondite allusions to bags, sand dunes and early trains.
This arose since, although Miss Mapp did not publicly accuse them of un-chivalrous and drunken debauchery (to avoid herself being falsely accused of drunkenness), she had taken the opportunity to broadcast her reasoned explanation as to how they had both run away from the duel and sought to escape with luggage on the same early train. They had returned for an amicable game of golf and never intended to duel amidst the dunes by the links.
"Recondite" in this context means hidden or obscure. Their many friends had clearly been alluding to their cowardly conduct in a sarcastic and roundabout way only to be expected in Tilling.
Red Queen from "Alice in Wonderland," The ~ "Lucia and her guests, with the exception of Sophy Alingsby who continued to play primitive tunes with one finger on the piano, went for a stroll on the Green before lunch. Mrs Quantock hurried by with averted face,and naturally everybody wanted to know who the Red Queen from Alice in wonderland was. Lucia amused them by a bright version of poor Daisy's ouija-board and the story of the mulberry tree."
Based upon the playing card, the Red Queen is a fictional character in "Through the looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. Irrascible if thwarted, the Red Queen is merciless to enemies and treats animals cavalierly, as when playing croquet with a flamingo mallet and hedgehog ball.
A different but equally ill-tempered queen - apt to cry "Off with their heads" - is another playing card, the Queen of Hearts from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
The Red Queen and Queen of Hearts are often confused but Carroll distinguished between them, saying :"I pictured to myself the Queen of Hearts as a sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion - a blind and aimless Fury. The Red Queen I pictured as a Fury, but of another type; her passion must be cold and calm - she must be formal and strict, yet not unkindly; pedantic to the tenth degree, the concentrated essence of all governesses!" See Infelicities.
Redcurrant fool ~ thirst-quenching, iced redcurrant fool was much enjoyed at bridge parties and afternoon teas in Tilling, such as those held by Mrs Poppit and Miss Mapp. Typically proprietorial, Miss Mapp claimed she had inherited the recipe for the delicious decoction from her grandmother and that the secret of its deliciousness lay in the addition of yolk of egg and cream.
First mention was made of the beverage by Lucia when she recalled the visit by Elizabeth Mapp to Riseholme during the summer when Georgie had invented saying "Au reservoir" rather than "Au revoir."
Miss Mapp had attended Lucia's garden party and stopped quite to the end, eating quantities of redcurrant fool and saying she had inherited the recipe from her grandmother which she would send to Lucia. She did too and Lucia's cook said it was rubbish.
On her return from Buckingham Palace, Mrs Poppit agreed: Boon has made it very tolerably today. A Scotch recipe of my great grandmother's. see Food
Rembrandt ~ towards the end of Georgie's summer's lease of "Mallards Cottage", Quaint Irene Coles had planted her easel in the middle of the pavement and was painting a row of flayed carcases that hung in the butcher's shop. Benson remarks "Rembrandt had better look out."
It (very nearly) goes without saying, that this reference was to Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) the Dutch painter and etcher of the Dutch Golden Age. The reference may just have been prompted by the memory of one of Rembrandt's most famous group studies (the rather un-gory when compared to, say, some of the work of Francis Bacon) Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp (1632), rather than just the artist's renown as perhaps the definitive Old Master.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua ~ it was widely understood that the culture of Riseholme, led by Mrs Emmeline Lucas, rejected as valueless all artistic efforts later than the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and a great deal of what went before.
One of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy, Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, FRS, FRSA (1723-1792) was an painter specialising in portraits, knighted by George III in 1769. A renowned aesthetician, through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal form to the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style. See Royal Academy.
Rhine-maiden ~ Georgie (happy innocent!) was completely unaware that the whole of Riseholme knew that the smooth chestnut locks which covered the top of his head were trained like tendrils of a grape vine from their roots, and flowed like a river over a bare bed, and consequently when Mr Holroyd explained the proposed innovation, a little central wig, the edges of which would mingle in a most natural manner with his own hair, it seemed to Georgie that nobody would know the difference. In addition he would be spared those risky moments when he had to take his hat off to a friend in a high wind, for there was always the danger of his hair blowing away from the top of his head, and hanging down, like the tresses of a Rhine-maiden, over one shoulder.
The Rhinemaidens - Woglinde, Wellgunde and Flosshilde - are the water nymphs (Rhinetochter/Rhine daughters) in Der Ring des Nibelungen, the opera cycle by Richard Wagner. Created by Wagner from legends and myths, such as the Nibelungenlied, the Rhinemaidens appear in the opening scene of Das Rheingold and in the final climax of Gotterdammerung, where they rise from the Rhine and reclaim the ring from the ashes of Brunnhilde. We do not know which particular Rhinemaiden's tresses those of Georgie most resembled. See Mr Holroyd, Busy Indoors, Wagner, Brunnhilde.
Riband development ~ when Lucia became Mayor she was concerned to demonstrate repeatedy that she was preoccupied with many technical matters ranging from town planning to slums and sanitation. She remarked to Georgie "Those riband developments. They form one of the greatest problems I have to tackle"
Well-meaning Georgie inquired if Lucia meant "things in hats" and Lucia patronisingly explained, " Stupid of me not to explain dear. How could you know? Building developments : dreadful hideous dwellings along the sweet country roads leading into Tilling. Red-brick villas instead of hedges of hawthorn and eglantine. It seems such a desecration"
In the 1920s and 1930s the building of houses along routes of communication radiating from a city, town or village generated great concern . This kind of development was known as ribbon development rather than riband development as mentioned by Lucia. We do not know if this was an error in transcription not uncommon in Fred's writing or a joke at Lucia's expense to indicate the shallowness of her knowledge, even as Mayor. We know from Reports from the"Sussex Express" when Fred was Mayor of Rye that ribbon developmmnent was discussed by the Council - as when protests were voiced over a recommendation to develop land fronting to New Winchelsea Road in July 1935. Also set out in Infelicities
Rice, Mr ~ the poulterer in Tilling.
Richborough ~ after her acquisition of "Mallards House," Lucia commenced extensive excavations in the garden hoping to uncover Roman remains. The soil was rich in relics; it abounded in pieces of pottery of the same type as those she decided were Roman, and there were many pretty fragments of iridescent oxydized glass, and a few bones which she hoped might turn out to be those of red deer which at the time of the Roman occupation were common in Kent and Sussex. Lucia remarked to Georgie, "Tomorrow I expect my trench to get down to floor level. There may be a tessellated pavement like that found at Richborough...."
Evocatively set amidst the east Kent marshes, close to the Isle of Thanet to the north of Sandwich, is the settlement of Richborough (Rutupiae). Now some two miles from the sea, Richborough stood at at the southern end of the Wantsum Channel, which is now silted up. It is recognised as the landing place of the Claudian Invasion in AD43, comprising four legions under Aulus Plautius. This was demonstrated by the discovery there in 2008 of the remains of a Roman beachhead, defending 700 metres of coast. It was recognised as the Gateway to Britain, long before Dover. A Roman fort was built on the site of this first landing to which walls were added in AD287 with an 80 foot arch. It became an increasingly large civilian settlement with temples, an amphitheatre and mansio. Extensive excavations have brought to light foundations of many Roman buildings and objects of antiquity and thus Lucia's observations regarding Richborough were well-founded, if not those regarding the archaeological significance of her garden of "Mallards House." See tessellated pavement.
Riffel Alp ~ resort in Switzerland in which Miss Mapp holidayed. She had enjoyed her stay and had many interesting conversations including long talks to a bishop about the revised Prayer Book, to a Russian exile about Bolshevism and to a member of the Alpine Club about Everest.
In the summer of 1890, just as he was working upon the fearsomely difficult and abstruse Lincoln Judgement, Fred's father Edward, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, took the whole family to a tiny hotel on the Rieder Alp in Switzerland. It was so small that the Bensons and Professor Seely filled it completely. Whilst his father worked upon his papers, the athletic Fred climbed the Matterhorn. His biographer, Masters remarks, "There was something hearty about the young E.F.Benson which now seems to sit oddly with the creator of Lucia and Miss Mapp, but Fred's generation saw no conflict between physical prowess and poetic flights of fancy."
Riseholme ~ pretty Elizabethan village in Worcestershire - although reference is sometimes confusingly made to Warwickshire. It was a four hour train journey from London. Many half-timbered houses, a ducking-pond and village green with stocks. For a short time Riseholme boasted a museum. Home of Philip and Emmeline Lucas in The Hurst and of many friends and neighbours, including Georgie Pillson.
When about to tell Georgie of her intention to buy a house on the Green, opera diva Olga Bracely remarked of Riseholme, "It's not a question of liking: it's a mere detail of not being able to do without it. I don't like breathing, but I should die if I didn't. I want some delicious , hole-in-the-corner, lazy backwater sort of place, where nothing ever happens, and nobody ever does anything."
Sadly in some ways, Riseholme faded in Lucia's affections, perhaps understandably after the death of her husband, Pepino. Riseholme, once so vivid and significant, had during these weeks at Tilling been fading like an ancient photograph exposed to the sun, and all its features, foregrounds and backgrounds. It no longer had anything to occupy Lucia's energies, or call out her unique powers of self- assertion. She had so swept the board with her management of the Elizabethan fete that no further progress was possible.
Riseholme is generally considered to have been based upon Broadway in the Cotswolds. In his "Life of E.F.Benson" Brian Masters mentions that the Bensons made regular visits to Riseholme, where Bishop Wordsworth and his family lived. Here one could walk among mysterious dark woods , and hope never to be found, one could catch frogs and snakes, one could dart and run and taste freedom as nowhere else. Fred and his sister Maggie would have long outings together at Riseholme, delighting in nature and her varied population. He wrote "At Riseholme we went on a cow's back and took a rabbit up in our arms. I saw the funniest thing, it was a goose turing somersaults in the water...."
Riseholme Golf Club ~ small golf club with a little shed of a club-house recently started by the tradesmen and townspeople of Riseholme and the neighbouring little town of Blitton. Mr Stratton, the landlord of the Ambermere Arms, invited Lucia and Georgie to join its golf-committee and Lucia to be President of the Club. Upon taking office, Lucia donated the President's Cup for the members' competition and Pepino gave the Lucas Cup for foursomes.
Riseholme instinct ~ at the dinner at the home of Georgie Pillson on Christmas Night, engineered by Olga Bracely (but not attended by her, other than after dinner incognita as a choirboy), much was taking place. As well as guiding the general rapprochement between Lucia and her neighbours, Georgie found time as a busy host to note various curious unspoken exchanges between Daisy and Robert Quantock.
Both Daisy and Robert understood that the psychic medium, Princess Popoffski was a fraud, but not aware that the other also knew. Each had each taken action to destroy evidence, as when Daisy had burned the false moustache and muslin used in the deceit and Robert had bought all copies of "Todds News" carrying the story of the successful prosecution and fining of the Princess and her accomplice and had even stolen Colonel Boucher's "Daily Mirror," which also carried the court report.
The Quantock's strange reactions whenever spiritualism or the Princess cropped up in conversation showed Georgie that something was amiss, but he had insufficient information to work out what had happened. "Georgie was utterly mystified: his Riseholme instinct told him there was something below all this, but his Riseholme instinct could not supply the faintest clue as to what it was."
In Riseholme and later in Tilling, the powers of Inductive Reasoning and the ability to piece together a story from minimal data but with rigorous logic and a creative imagination was very well-developed. The Rieholme instinct can be regarded as the inspired and ordered application of very advanced powers of Inductive Reasoning, supplemented with what might be called "conjectural flair." See Inductive reasoning.
Riseholme Literary Society ~ group formed in the village of Riseholme for the mutual appreciation of the written word of which leading lights were Philip and Emmeline Lucas. Papers presented to the society included Lucia's memorable essay, called "Humour in Furniture" which alluded to many of the more amusing quaintnesses in and about her home, "The Hurst."
Lucia had held out hopes to the Society that perhaps some day, when she was not so rushed, she would jot down material for a sequel to her essay, or write another covering a rather larger field on "Gambits of Conversation derived from Furniture."
It is unclear whether Peppino/Pepino was ever prevailed upon to treat the Society to a reading of any of his prose poems in the style of Walt Whitman, such as were collected together in slim volumes such as "Flotsam", "Jetsam" "Fugitive Lyrics"and " Pensieri Persi."
Riseholme Museum ~ museum founded by Daisy and Robert Quantock, Georgie Pillson and a small but select group of Riseholme residents - not including Lucia. The founders would share any profits in proportion to their initial subscriptions. The idea for the museum was understood to have originated via the planchette from Daisy Quantock's Egyptian spirit guide, Abfou. To prove his approbation, Abfou subsequently said several times, " Much pleased with your plans for the Museum. Abfou approves."
Established in Colonel Boucher's spacious tithe barn on the Green. It displayed miscellaneous curiosities, specimens and antiquities loaned or more usually fervently bestowed by residents. It was officially opened by Lady Ambermere.
Items included coins, bones, glass, Samian ware, the greater portion of a spinning wheel, an Elizabethan pestle and mortar, no end of roman tiles, a large wooden post unhesitatingly called a whipping post, some indecipherable documents on parchment with seals attached, maps, fossils, carved stones, quilts, a cradle moth-eaten enough to be Anglo-Saxon, queer-shaped bottles, a tiger-ware jug, fire irons too ponderous to use, and (by special vote of the Parish council) stocks which hitherto had stood at the edge of the pond on the Green. These exhibits were later joined by mittens reputedly once worn by Queen Charlotte loaned (not presented) by Lady Ambermere, who was also kind enough to open the Museum. Later, the Museum also housed the vicar's collection of 81 walking sticks (which included one indelicate one of a couple passionately embracing.) At one memorable meeting, the Museum Committee was minded to decline Lucia's generous offer of her Elizabethan spit, but to accept diva Olga Bracely's gift of the original manuscript of Cortese's opera, "Lucretia," coupled with an invitation to join the Committee. The Committee subsequently reversed its decision and accepted the spit.
In its first week one hundred and twenty six visitors passed though the turn style (bought from a bankrupt circus for a mere song) each paying a shilling and most also buying a sixpenny catalogue. There was an unfortunate incident when Lady Ambermere and her party were refused access without paying, but even members of the Committee paid to gain entrance.
Lady Ambermere was also furious when the Committee used Lucia as its messenger to decline her offer to exhibit in the Museum her recently deceased lapdog Pug, which had been stuffed and placed in a glass case.
After one busy season and many paying visitors, the Museum sadly burned down. This occurred when Daisy Quantock spilt paraffin when refilling the oil heaters used to keep the premises dry. Fortunately Robert Quantock, with commendable foresight, had arranged insurance for the building and its precious contents, which provided more than adequate cover in the event of fire. Although Mr Quantock received the largest share of the insurance proceeds in respect of contents, improper collusion with the person responsible for starting the conflagration was not suspected - or at least, not voiced. See Samian ware.
Riseholmer ~ term invented by Lucia - after Nietzsche's term Mediterranizer - to convey the process of again imbuing oneself with all the special qualities of life only Riseholme had to offer her, after a period away.
Ritz, The ~ the day after the gala performance at Covent Garden Opera House of "Lucrezia," Georgie Pillson met Olga Bracely and Lucia for lunch at the Ritz, where they were belatedly joined by Poppy, Duchess of Sheffield and the composer, librettist and conductor Signor Cortese.
Opened in May 1906 by Swiss hotelier, Cesar Ritz, the Ritz London is a five star hotel in Piccadily overlooking Green Park. Built in the belle epoque in the neo-classical Louis XVI style, its architects Charles Mewes had also designed the Hotel Ritz in Paris. Ritz hired renowned chef Auguste Escoffier and, from the outset, the cuisine of the Ritz matched his stellar reputation. The Pillsons appeared to enjoy their luncheon which included cold and very buttery asparagus.
Robbia, della ~ see della Robbia.
Robert Quantock ~ see Quantock, Robert husband of Daisy Quantock. Neighbour of Lucia and Georgie
Rodomontade ~ when Miss Mapp had been complaining in typically overwrought terms about Lucia's imperious ways, offering to teach us bridge, Homer, callisthenics, take choir practices and arrange tableaux, Diva Plaistow naturally saw through Elizabeth's rodomontade about yokes and free countries. "Rodomontade" equates to vain or boastful bragging or bluster.
"Roguey-poguey-Romeo!" ~ Quaint Irene Coles came upon Diva Plaistow discussing whether a putative visit to Dr Dobbie made it more conclusive "that Elizabeth's expecting..."
Before Diva could continue, Irene could not resist leaping in to tease Georgie Pillson, "You don't say so! Who's the correspondent? Georgie, you're blushing below your beard. Roguey-poguey Romeo! I saw you climbing up a rope ladder to the garden room when you were supposed to be ill. Juliet Mapp opened the window to you, and you locked her in a passionate embrace. I didn't want to get you into trouble, so I didn't say anything about it, and now you've gome and got her into trouble, you wicked old Romeo, hoots and begorra. I must be godmother, and now I'm off to tell Lucia...."
As expected, Irene never became godmother and Elizabeth Mapp-Flint's the pregnancy turned out to be as imaginary as Quaint Irene's improbable and indeed misconceived fantasy of how it might have come about. See Quaint Irene.
Roman roads ~ supposed nocturnal field of study of Captain Puffin. Puffin admitted to his friend Major Benjy that although there was a legend among the ladies locally that he was a student of local topography and Roman roads, the study he had done on such matters in the last six months wouldn't cover a three-penny piece. In reality, Puffin was enjoying a succession of nightcaps of an evening, sometimes in the garrulous company of his old friend and neighbour, Major Benjamin Flint
Romps ~ preferred activity of Olga Braceley at hilarious soirees consisting mainly of disturbingly informal entertainments, fun and games.
"Roseate morn has passed away, The" ~ Major Flint had been trying to answer direct questions from Elizabeth Mapp - otherwise known, to himself and his friend Captain Puffin, as the "Guardian Angel" - about how he spent his evenings "working on his diaries." He had responded during the last month that he worked on his diaries three nights a week and went to bed early on the others. When asked about Sunday nights, he replied," I don't think you knew my beloved, my revered mother, Miss Elizabeth. I spend Sunday evenings as - Well, well.
The very next Sunday evening, the Guardian Angel had heard the sound of singing. She could not catch the words, and only fragments of the tune, which reminded her of "The roseate morn has passed away."
Sadly, or perhaps anything but sadly, the singing on which the Guardian Angel eaves-dropped upon the Sabbath, was probably made by Major Flint and Captain Puffin carousing under the influence of the whisky they both enjoyed. As former servicemen, who had seen a great deal of shikarri in their respective times, their repertoire seems likely to have verged more upon the profane than the sacred.
The hymn, which The Guardian Angel thought she heard, may itself have been slightly misquoted, with "roseate" substituted for "radiant" actually written. The composition Miss Mapp had in mind seems likely to have been put into words by Geoffrey Thring in 1864, with music composed by Charles F. Gounod in 1872:
"The radiant morn hath passed away,
and spent too soon her golden store;
the shadows of departing day
creep on once more."
Alternatively, Miss Mapp might have been thinking of a hymn written by Cecil F. Alexander in 1853, with music adapted and harmonised by William H. Monk in the 1868 appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern
"The roseate hues of early dawn, the brightness of the day,
The crimson of the sunset sky, how fast they fade away!
O for the pearly gates of Heav'n! O for the golden floor!
O for the Sun of Righteousness that setteth nevermore!"
Similarly, if Miss Mapp actually did favour "roseate" over "radiant", she could have been thinking of William Cooke's translation in the Hymniary,1872, number 267, of words by Nicolas le Tourneaux in the revised Paris Breviary, 1736 (Aurora lucis dum novae) with music by Edward J Hopkins:
"Morn's roseate hues have decked the sky;
The Lord has risen with victory:
Let earth be glad, and raise the cry,
It is difficult for a lay reader to determine this abstruse issue with any certainty and the only really strong likelihood is that Messrs Flint and Puffin did not actually sing sacred hymns during their convivial fireside evenings.
Rose-madder worsted ~ ill feeling arose between Elizabeth Mapp and Diva Plaistow when the latter bought from Heynes's the wool shop a quantity of rose-madder worsted which the former had ordered and could not obtain any further supply. The bad feeling spilled over into a petty dispute over the trimming of day-wear with off-cut chintz roses and cornflowers and ultimately their infamous rivalry over their identical kingfisher blue tea gowns.
Roses, Wars of the ~ See Wars of the Roses.
Rossetti, Miss ~ Diva Plaistow had been vexed with Elizabeth Mapp over various issues, including being teased over coal and food hoarding and the application of cut-out chintz roses to garments. It was fortuitous that, after Diva had undone the latch, Susan Poppit had accidentally unleashed an avalanche of hoarded foodstuffs from the faux book-case cupboard in the Garden Room at "Mallards" during a bridge party, hosted by Miss Mapp. "Diva crammed the last jumble into her mouth and disposed of it with the utmost rapidity. The birthday of her life had come, as Miss Rossetti had said."
This reference is to the poem "A Birthday" by English romantic, devotional and children's poet Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 -1894) who was described by critic, Basil de Selincourt as "all but our greatest woman poet...probably in the first twelve of the masters of English verse."
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Rosicrucian ~ when Daisy Quantock met Princess Popoffski at Tsarkoe Selo, a vegetarian restaurant in London, the Princess wore some very curious rings, with large engraved amethysts and turquoises in them. Mrs Quantock asked if those finger ornaments had any mystical signification. They had: one was Gnostic, one was Rosicrucian, and the other was Cabalistic.
Rosicrucian is perhaps slightly less opaque to the sheltered reader of comic novels of the inter-war years than Gnostic or Cabalistic. It relates to a philosophical secret society, reputedly founded in late medieval Germany by Christian Rosenkreuz, which propounded a doctrine built on esoteric truths of the ancient past concealed from the average man, which provide insight into nature, the physical universe and spiritual realm.
What has been called the Rosicrucian Enlightenment occurred with the publication of Fama Fraternitatis RC (1607) and Confessio Fraternitatis (1616). Rosicrucianism is mostly associated with Protestantism, especially Lutheranism and also Freemasonry, rather than with Roman Catholicism, and later in the development of the doctrines of many esoteric societies, not to mention esoteric individuals such as Princess Popoffski. It is symbolized by a Rosy Cross, but it is not vouchsafed to the reader if the Princess sported one in addition to her curious fistful of mystical fingerwear. See Gnostic, Cabalistic, Madame Blavatski and Princess Popoffski.
Roumanian Oils ~ stock in which Robert Quantock successfully invested and which were the main source of his fortunes.
Rousseau ~ at an infamous luncheon party for intimes at 25 Brompton Square, Lucia had taken a pre-arranged telephone call from Pepino and had calculatedly pretended to her on-looking guests that her unknown caller was of royal status by theatrically giving a curtsy to the receiver and distinctly using terms such as "Your Highness" and "Ma'am."
After this little drama, Lucia instantly resumed her conversation where she had left off, discussing the opening of Herbert Alton's show in a fortnight and how they would "laugh at each others caricatures." She went on to remark, "What is it that Rousseau - is it Rousseau? - says about our not being wholly grieved at the misfortunes of our friends? So true!"
Lucia cited perhaps the most influential thinker of the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) whose political philosophy and works such as "Discourse on the Origins of Inequality" and "On the Social Contract" had a profound effect on the French Revolution and the development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. The line quoted appears to originate in his autobiographical "Confessions." Though Rousseau's apercu is admirably apt, I also hold to Gore Vidal's remark in similar vein in 1973 or so, "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." See Apophthegms and Herbert Alton.
Royal Academy ~ pondering why after a trip to London, Lucia had not returned to her home in Riseholme on the fly from the railway station with her maid, Georgie Pillson guessed that she might have been distracted by a visit to the National Gallery or British Museum. He felt certainly she would not be at the Royal Academy, for the culture of Riseholme, led by herself rejected as valueless all artistic efforts later than the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and a great deal that went before.
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London founded in December 1768 by King George III to promote the art of design in Britain through education and exhibition. The painter Sir Joshua Reynolds was made its first President. Uniquely, the Academy is an independent, privately funded institution, led by eminent artsits and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate. It is famed for its annual Summer Exhibition, which would one day feature Quaint Irene Coles satirical portrait of Mr and Mrs Mapp-Flint. See Burlington House, Picture of the Year, Quaint Irene Coles.
Royal Fish Train ~ As Mayor of Tilling, Lucia lobbied assiduously for the establishment of a daily service to London to supply fish from Tilling to The King and Queen as she believed took place in Elizabethan times, but failed to convince the Directors of the Southern Railway that the Royal Fish Train was a practicable scheme.
They concluded " Should Their Majesties express their royal wish to be supplied with fish from Tilling, the Directors would see that the delivery was made with all expedition, but in their opinion the ordinary resources of the line will suffice to meet Their requirements, of which at present no intimation has been received".
Lucia considered that this failure to think municipally and to bring an Elizabethan custom up to date revealed a sad want of enterprise.
Royal Hotel, Brinton ~ hotel in Brinton which neighboured Riseholme at which Princess Poppofski, the medium, intended to stay to enjoy the bracing air, before visiting Daisy Quantock and holding several seances in her home.
Also notorious in musical circles as the principal venue of the Brinton String Quartet which played - apparently very poorly - in the lounge after dinner. Memorably, Lucia once made a very public gaffe in mistaking the world-famous Spanish Quartet playing for Olga Bracely at Old Place for the Brinton String Quartet, much to the amusement of Mrs Weston and others present and her own huge embarrassment.
Royal Zoological Society, The ~ Major Benjy's lecture at the Literary Institute in Tilling reached a climax when he took up from his desk a cane riding whip with a silver top and with it gave the head of a tiger skin a terrific whack. The whip which he asserted "is what saved my life" was passed around the audience for examination.
The lecture ended to loud applause and mystified by the reappearance of the lost riding crop, Lucia whispered to Diva Plaistow, "Come to lunch tomorrow. Just us three. I am utterly puzzled...Ah Major Benjy, marvellous! What a treat!I have never been so thrilled. Dear Elizabeth, how proud you must be of him. He ought to have that lecture printed. Not a word, not a syllable altered, and read it to the Royal Zoological Society. They would make him a member at once."
It is not entirely clear to what Royal Zoological Society Lucia was referring. Founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1826, The Zoological Society of London is incorporated by Royal Charter and is devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats as well as operating London Zoo and Whipsnade. London Zoo was the world's first scientific zoo and was granted its Royal Charter by George IV. Charles Darwin became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1837. Whipsnade Wild Animal Park received its first animals in 1928 and opened as the worlds first open zoological park in 1931. It seems that the Zoological Society of London may have been the body to which Lucia was referring, unless she meant the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, established in 1909 by Edinburgh lawyer, Thomas Gillespie which was granted its charter in 1913, 'To promote, facilitate and encourage the study of zoology and kindred subjects and to foster and develop amongst the people with an interest in and knowledge of animal life.'
Royce, the ~ large and luxurious chauffeur-driven motor car of the Wyses. Used for the shortest journey and often causing congestion in the narrow High Street of Tilling - to the particular chagrin of Elizabeth Mapp.
Like the Wyses, Lucia also owned a Rolls Royce, which was driven by her loyal and unflappable chauffeur Cadman (who married the estimable Foljambe). Lucia was less ostentatious in her use of her motor car and, unlike the Wyses, usually managed to walk the short distance from her home to the High Street for daily marketing and news gathering.
Rubens ~ Mrs. Emmeline Lucas was extremely busy; she always took as by divine right, the leading part in the histrionic entertainments with which the cultured of Riseholme beguiled or rather strenuously occupied, such moments as could be spared from the studies of art and literature and their social engagements. Lucia espoused the view neatly stated in a favourite apophthegm, "My dear it is just busy people who have time for everything."
Just as the painter Rubens amused himself with being Ambassador to the Court of St James ( a careeer in itself for most busy men), so Mrs Lucas amused herself in the intervals of her pursuit of Art for Art's sake, with being not only an ambassador but a monarch - of her kingdom of Riseholme. Her secure autocratic rule was pleasant to contemplate at a time when thrones were toppling and imperial crowns whirling like dead leaves down the autumn winds.
Polymath Flemish baroque painter, scholar and diplomat, Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) was reknown for portraits, landscapes and depictions of mythological and allegorical subjects. Between 1627 and 1630 his diplomatic career was especially active and he moved between the courts of Spain and England in an effort to bring peace beween the United Provinces and Spanish Netherlands. He was knighted by Philip IV of Spain in 1624 and Charles I of England in 1630. A prolific and successful artist, one of his commissions for Charles I was the decoration of the ceiling of his new banqueting hall in Whitehall. His fondness for and skill in the depiction of what has been described as the pleasingly plump and voluptuous female form gave rise to the term "Rubenesque."
Rubiconned ~ following the tragic death by drowning in soup of his old friend Captain Puffin, Major Benjy lost his zest for life and spent much more time in the company of Elizabeth Mapp. The January weather was inclement and there was little winter bridge. Piquet with a single sympathetic companion who did not mind being rubiconned at three pence a hundred was as much as Major Flint was up to at present.
Originating in the early 16th-century, piquet is a trick-taking card game for two players. In rubicon piquet, when the loser's score does not reach 100 it is added to the winners.
Rumbold, Mr, sometimes Rushbold ~ the vicar at Riseholme. Donated his unique collection of eighty-one walking sticks to the Museum in Riseholme. The handles of many were curiously carved, some with the gargoyle heads of monsters putting out their tongues and leering, some with images of birds and fish and one rather indelicate one of a man and girl embracing.
Presentation of the collection proved a problem since they regularly fell over when simply rested against a wall. Daisy Quantock devised an ingenious solution of stretching a lawn tennis net against the wall and tastefully entangling the sticks in its meshes.
Rumbold, Mrs ~ the wife of the vicar of Riseholme who trained the choir, described as resembling a grey suspicious mouse. A guest at Georgie's Christmas dinner with Colonel Boucher and his fiancee Mrs Jane Weston, Robert and Daisy Quantock and Pepino and Lucia. Georgie remarked to Olga Bracely that Mr Rumbold "is always singing carols all Christmas evening with the choir, and she will be alone." Why Mrs Rumbold, who is stated to have taught the choir, was not involved with their Christmas Day performances is not wholly clear, but perhaps not unclear enough to amount to a suggested infelicity.
"Running " ~ in many ways the story of Emmeline Lucas/Pillson and Elizabeth Mapp/Flint is essentially one of their respective efforts to "run" Riseholme or Tilling and the lives of all their respective citizens. In Riseholme, for example, Lucia successfully determined to annex the guru from her neighbour Daisy Quantock and "run" him as her August stunt.
Although there were occasional Bolshevistic symptoms in the air in both Worcestershire and Sussex, Lucia and Miss Mapp were the social queens of both their domains. The potential for conflict was obvious when the irresistible force took up residence in such close proximity to the immovable object at the seaside.
When Lucia first visited Tilling, Elizabeth Mapp was furious when Susan Wyse struck up an acquaintance with the visitors and secured them for luncheon on the day they were due to return to Riseholme. "It was very annoying that they had stuck their hooks (so the process represented itself to her vigorous imagery) into Lucia, for Miss Mapp had intended to have no-one's hook there but her own. She wanted to run her, sponsor her, to arrange little parties for her, and cause Lucia to arrange little parties at her dictation, and, while keeping her in her place, show her off to Tilling."
On her return to Riseholme, the shrewd and worldly-wise Lucia had instinctively understood all that had transpired during her first taste of Tilling and the proprietorial intentions of Miss Mapp.
Lucia had noted and been amazed by the look in Miss Mapp's eye when she heard they were lunching with Mrs Wyse - as if Mrs Wyse had pocketed something of hers. Lucia continued to Georgie ," Most extraordinary. I don't belong to Miss Mapp. Of course, it's easy to see that she thinks herself very much superior to all the rest of Tilling. She says that her friends are angels and lambs, and then crabs them a little. Marcate mie parole, Georgino! I believe she wants to run me. I believe Tilling is seething with intrigue. But we shall see. How I hate all that sort of thing! "
Later, when Lucia returned to Tilling after her great success in the pageant in Riseholme, she wanted to break the news of Foljambe's impending engagement and update Georgie about Miss Mapp's aggressive acts in unfairly monopolising Coplen, the gardener, whose wages Lucia paid, and daily intrusion uninvited into "Mallards." She explained, "Things are beginning to move Georgie. Night marches, Georgie, manoeuvres. Elizabeth of course. I'm sure I was right, she wants to run me, and if she can't (if!) she'll try to fight me. I can see glimpses of hatred and malice in her."
When Lucia was appointed Mayor of Tilling further "running" took place when the Padre, Algernon Wyse and Major Benjy "ran" their respective spouses for the post of Mayoress of Tilling and Diva Plaistow ran herself. This running race was won by Elizabeth Mapp-Flint, since Lucia found "it is far better to have her on a lead, bound to me by ties of gratitude than skulking about like a pariah dog, snapping at me. True, she may not be capable of gratitude, but I always prefer to look for the best in people, like Mr Somerset Maugham in his delightful stories."
Later, when Elizabeth was appointed Mayoress and over-zealous in offering her services, Lucia commented, "She's got quite a wrong notion of the duties of a Mayoress, Georgie. I wish she would understand that if I want her help I shall ask her for it. She has nothing to do with my official duties, and as she's not on the Town Council, she can't dip her oar in very deep."
Georgie replied, "She's hoping to run you. She hopes to have her finger in every pie. She will if she can."
When the novelist Susan Legg (Rudolfo da Vinci) was summer tenant of "Grebe" and Elizabeth Mapp-Flint was entertaining her unusually extravagantly, Diva Plaistow accurately remarked, "Elizabeth's meaning to run her, that's what it is. Let 'em run!"
Rush's ~ general store in Riseholme
Rutland Gallery ~ small gallery in London which presented an exhibition Herbert Alton's caricatures of society figures - including Lucia and Pepino (admittedly commissioned by Lucia).


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The most common way of working on a sprang warp is to stretch it in a frame. The other option is a suspended warp that is warped between two beams, one of which is suspended from the ceiling and the other one near the floor so that either the weight of the lower beam or the feet of the weaver press down and thus stretch the warp. Both of these are known to have been used in Europe when sprang was commonly used for clothing items and such.
A third option is free-end sprang or sprang unsprung, i.e. normal open-end braiding but with the structure of basic sprang (i.e. interlinked instead of interwoven). I haven't tried it as I have no clue of its historical origins, I can't tell if the resulting fabric is different to what you get with a sprang warp that's worked stretched. I don't have it, either, but if this sounds something you'd like, get Carol James' book Sprang Unsprung ( ISBN 978-0-9784695-2-8), now that it is fresh and easily available – who knows how long that lasts, when we are talking about a more "obscure" craft…
If you spend some time searching and looking, you will find real sprang frames on sale, but not necessarily in your neck of the woods or at a price you are willing to pay just to try out a new technique. I have found during my experiments that many types of embroidery and tapestry frames can be adapted to work as sprang frames especially when you just want to learn a new craft.
There are three important things to think of:
- The warp gets shorter, e.g. tighter when your weaving proceeds. This means that you will have to come up with a warping system with quite a bit of give in at least one of the ends, or you will find that weaving gets impossible before you are even close to finishing (and consequently, your pieces will be short).
- Because both ends are woven simultaneously, you need to have access to the whole warp all the time. With a circular warp one can start with a warp that's almost the double of the length of the inside of your frame, but that's it then. A suspended warp allows a bit more length than easily available frames, but even there you have to be able reach the top on every new round. Ergo, the size of your frame/warping system limits the size of your product. (cf floor-weighted upright looms)
- Mostly you want to get the warp off the frame without cutting into the end loops. Sprang is warped with continuous warp, i.e. there're only two ends to finish off, the start and the end. If you are making e.g. a Viking hairnet/cap, the loops in one end are used to form the hairnet into a baggy shape – and the same would apply for example to a mobile phone pouch or carry bag. Besides, if you have to cut the loops to get the finished piece off the frame, you run a real risk of the fabric fraying/unraveling from the cut end while as long as you keep the loops whole, you only need to worry about the middle.
My sprang frame experiments
What one really needs to do sprang is a square or rectangular frame, round sticks that fit in the frame and 5-7 sticks for weaving (3 will do in a pinch). Elastic weaving easier, but you can get by with couple of strings just as well, to fasten and adjust the end beam position. So I've kept my eyes open for different types of solutions and have experimented with some – and more are to come!
Warp beams and weaving sticks
For warp beams I've used standard round wood lengths, some of which I bought at a hardware store, some I got at a hobby store and some I ordered from an online hobby store. All of these are sold as about 1 meter lengths and I've used a small handsaw to cut them down to size (hence some not-so-straight ends). The diameters vary from 8-12 mm, this measurement is not so critical, as long as the stick is thick enough not to bend, but not too much thicker than the frame itself. The larger the warp beams, the bigger your end loops will be, although the looseness can be spread over the whole fabric after it's been taken off the frame.
On the moment I have bamboo barbecue skewers as weaving/holding sticks on all warps. One could use normal or double-pointed knitting needles, but it turned out that I've upgraded my knitting needles to such nice smooth quality that they slip out of the warp all the time. The bamboo skewers are reasonably ok, although some of them splinter a bit. Sometimes they also break, but mostly the half-length is enough anyway and there are 100 of them in a package, so losing one is no big deal.
Tapestry frame
While looking for something else at Hobby Point, a craft store in central Helsinki, I stumbled on a cheap tapestry frame package, for weaving small tapestries (e.g. at school). The same place also sells materials for dolls houses etc, so I got a length of round stick to go with the frame.
After I started working on my first sample I found that this type of frame works well otherwise, but sometimes the joints pop out and that of course explodes the whole thing. As I want to be able to take apart the frame when I don't need it, I stabilized the corners with string and that seems to work fine.
The small size, just 23 cm square, doesn't really allow for weaving anything bigger, but on the other hand this is a very portable format and will serve fine for teaching.
Weaving frame
Somewhat later I found in a craft store a children's weaving frame for 8 euros. This one is a lot sturdier and works "out of the box", but on the other hand it cannot be taken apart. However, it works pretty well as a sample frame and I found out that I can warp it by using the slots and then transferring one end of the warp onto a stick (so I can adjust warp tension).
Embroidery bar frame
The so called bar frames are made up of four pieces with mortised joints. In embroidery use the fabric is tacked on to the frame and the tacking keeps the fabric tight and holds the frame in shape. However, when I started to use two spare pairs of bars as sprang frame, I found that it got easily twisted out of shape. I think this happens because the sprang warp only helps hold the tension between the two ends, but the sides had too much space for movement.
As bar frames are both cheap and light-weight and come in many sizes that are just right for sprang, I started to think about ways of preventing distortion of the frame. I decided that the frames I already had in use could become permanently fixed as I have a handy hook to store them on so I don't have to take them apart to put them away. Thus I went to the local hardware store and found two types of corner supports. Both sorts work, but to me it is easier to get true angles with the wide L-shaped ones. Also, they just go on top of the frame and if that side is kept up, the surface underneath is safe, while the bent ones are just a teeny tiny bit too wide for these frames and can scratch e.g. the table (or my legs!) they lean on.
I'm debating whether I should try padding the corners with small pieces of felt (glued on) or by covering them or the whole frame with ribbon. I need to do something at least for the one where the support is on the outside, but the other one isn't that aesthetic, either, so it could use a bit of touch-up as well.
Painter's wedged frame
On the craft section at Clas Ohlson, a place that sells all kinds of tools and storage solutions and a little bit of hardware, I found a package for a wedged frame (fi. kiilakehys or kiilapuut, swe kilram) for about 6 euros (it is size F10, judging by the length and price) . The proper use for these is to stretch the canvas to be painted on a wedged frame, I think the wedges are used to fasten it on the inside of the frame.
This, too, comes in an oblong package of four pieces of wood with mortised joints (and some wedges). It turned out to be tight enough that once I had carefully matched the corners and pressed the pieces in to create the rectangle, nothing else was needed, so I didn't bother with the wedges. Add two round sticks and a warp and I think I have a Viking hairnet here.
This is my best warping solution this far. For the first the wedged frame is sturdy, but lightweight, and just the right size that I can comfortably work on it by resting one end on the table and the other one on my lap. For the second I took the advice given in one of my sprang books and used standard elastic bands to fasten the top end of the warp, which makes it nicer to work with. For the third this is my first try with this yarn, loosely plied two-ply Pirkka (i.e. the thicker Pirkka-lanka, Paksu-Pirkka, tex 285 x 2) and it is easier to work with than the cheap sock yarns and other remnant wools I've used for the practice warps.
Other frame solutions I've been thinking about
I'm planning to misuse one of my rectangular embroidery frames sized about 4″ x 9″, i.e. about 10 x 23 cm. I'll turn it 90 degrees and add three sticks so I can make a circular warp. That should enable me to make a narrowish band/ribbon about 35 cm long, to be used as a hair tie. I just need to saw the sticks to correct length first. Obviously I also have to shorten the pick sticks as the bamboo skewers are about 30 cm long, but they can just be snapped. Or then I'll dig out my really short 10 cm double-pointed knitting needles and use them, I'll have to see what works best. If the warp is really narrow, even cocktail sticks may do…
Frame solutions by others
Suspended warps
Unfortunately I don't have the space (nor hanging opportunity) to make a suspended warp, but it does give more space for the sprang fabric, although one will still need to reach to both bottom and top, so in the beginning doing the sprang in these will be like pass in a gym…


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If rotting demons and quivering brains aren't sickening enough for you then maybe you'll find this one "a'peeling." But try not to laugh too hard when the guy unintentionally talks about how his "old balls were getting a little worn out!"
From the February 1954 issue of Mysterious Adventures #18 comes--- Skin 'em Alive!
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Skin 'em Alive!
Posted by Mr. Karswell at Saturday, July 21, 2007
Labels: Mysterious Adventures, sports horror, Story Comics, tattoos
4 comments:
awwwwwwwwwwwesome a whole new genre of sports horror!!!!! if you got more like this please post it
- 7/21/2007
- Karswell said...
I'll check, I'm sure there's more "sports horror" somewhere... I know I have a spooky boxing story, does that count?
Actually this entire issue of Mysterious Adventures with Skin 'Em Alive is great, there's 3 other stories from this one issue that I want to eventually post too. Stay tuned...
- 7/21/2007
And you should see the magic football's air nozzle!
- 7/27/2007
- Karswell said...
And why can't Reynold's keep it out of his mouth? Surely the damned ball doesn't need to be blown up every 5 seconds!
- 7/28/2007
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Space Italian Dressing Experimental Setup (SIDES) examines the dynamics of fluid segregation between fluids of differing densities. While in space the fluids will not undergo buoyant or convective forces, thus isolating the affects of separation due to density and molecular forces. The experiment will serve as an outreach experiment in addition to gleaning scientific data; mixtures are a topic of study in the 5th grade curriculum.
The objective of International Paper Airplanes in Space (IPAS) is to excite children about space research by giving them a chance to take part in it. IPAS includes collecting paper airplanes made by elementary-school students from around the world. The airplanes will be sent to the International Space Station to determine the effects of microgravity on paper airplane flight. The data will be recorded, collected, and then disseminated.
Research on the Effects of Microgravity on the BRazil NuT problem (REMBRANT) examines the affects of inertia on granular separation. The experiment includes two to four different bead sizes in one container that will be shaken and recorded to evaluate the ensuing collisions. Because of minimized gravitational effects, the granules will not be subject to buoyant or convective forces.
Poster presented at Utah State University Undergraduate Research Showcase. PDF available for download from link above.
Acknowledgments: Troy Munro; Sarah Isert; Victoria Ragsdale; Dayne Howard; Space Adventures; Russian Space Agency; University of Twente (2008, February 22). Granular Matter On The Boil Behaves Like Fluids. ScienceDaily.
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Hodgson, K. (31, March 2009). Space Research Projects for the International Space Station. Presented at the Utah State University Undergraduate Research Showcase, Logan, UT.


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Homemade Butterfinger Candy Bars
Are you, too, a fan of Butterfinger Candies with their crunchy, almost "splintery" peanut butter toffee goodness surrounded by thick chocolate? I ate more than my adult weight in Butterfingers during my childhood, but that's a post better left unwritten in favor of providing you with the recipe for how to make them yourself.
Butterfingers are a simple candy to make, but the Weather Gods must be in your favor providing a day with low humidity (under 60%). This recipe of mine makes a candy that is a dead-ringer for the original Nestle's creation…but without their chemicals and additives that allow them to exist on the shelf for years….
Butterfinger Candy Bars
(Yields about 96 miniature candy bars)
1/3 cup light corn syrup
1/3 cup water
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup peanut butter
Spray Vegetable Oil (Pam, etc.) for keeping the knife lubricated in scoring
1 Pound of Tempered Semi-Sweet Chocolate for dipping
First begin by greasing a 12-by-17-inch jelly roll pan (with 1-inch sides) with safflower, vegetable or canola oil. Place the pan into a slightly warm oven to warm the pan while making the candy. (Don't allow the pan to become hot, only barely warm to give you more time to spread and score the candy later.)
In a heavy 2-quart saucepan, combine the corn syrup and water, stirring well to combine. Place over medium-low heat and add the sugar. Cook the mixture, stirring constantly, until it is clear and then stirring often until it reaches a full boil. Clip on your calibrated candy thermometer, raise the heat to medium-high and continue to cook – without stirring – until the mixture reaches 310 degrees (F). During this cooking period, should sugar crystals form above the boiling line, carefully wipe away using a damp pastry brush, but be careful not to touch the boiling mixture. Rinse the pastry brush well – and make certain to blot-dry the brush well – between each swipe.
Remove your pan from the warming oven and place on your work surface.
Remove the candy from heat and add the peanut butter, stirring to blend completely using a clean wooden spoon. Working quickly, pour the mixture onto your well-greased jelly roll pan, and spread as evenly as possible. Score the mass with an oiled, heavy chef's knife into 1-inch by 2-inch pieces, cutting at least half way through the candy. (The more quickly you do this, the easier and deeper your scoring will be.) It is helpful to spray the knife with cooking oil occasionally to aide the knife in scoring.
Allow the scored mixture to cool at room temperature about 2 hours. When cool and hard, complete cutting the scored pieces using a sharp, heavy knife (I like to use my Chinese cleaver here) and break into individual pieces.
Place the cut candies into the refrigerator while you temper your dipping chocolate and allow to chill for 15 to 30 minutes. Remove the candies from the fridge and dip each piece into the chocolate, then place on parchment paper to allow the chocolate to harden completely (About 3 hours).
Note: You can add a certain flair to the candy by taking a clean dinner fork and touching the tops of each freshly dipped piece raising lines of "peaks" (akin to meringue peaks). Just use the back of the fork laid parallel to the chocolate cops, touch, lift and slightly pull to one side. Looks pretty snazzy….
Store on waxed-paper sheets in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
31 Responses to "Homemade Butterfinger Candy Bars"
I have a recipe for peanut brittle that is just like the freshest butterfinger bar you ever tasted. Crumbly & flaky. Will humidity cause it to become hard and chewy? Why no soda in your recipe? I made several perfect batches and now can't make one to save my soul. We've had rain and/or very overcast every time I make a bad batch. Is there a connection?
SpinningSugar: Thank you for your comment, bsweet! Let me try and answer your questions:
1. "Will humidity cause it [peanut butter] to become hard and chewy?" Yep and in a heartbeat. That is why I only recommend candymaking at humidity levels below 60%. When making candy (one using a solution of sugar and water or cream/milk, etc. — they also contain water) the water is necessary to dissolve the sugar and is then cooked to a certain temperature to reduce the amount of water in the sugar solution. High humidity dramatically reduces your ability to remove the necessary amount of water to achieve the real cooking stage you are striving for. So candies cooked on humid days become sticky or chewy because the humidity level has added moisture back into the cooked sugar. Now, your candy made on humid days is not guaranteed to fail (sometimes we get lucky), but it certainly is destined to fail the majority of the time. Does that make sense?
2. "Why no soda in your recipe?" That is a very good question, bsweet, since soda is a must-add to nut brittles. This recipe does not produce a brittle. There are two primary reasons for not using soda in making these butterfinger candies. The first reason is this recipe requires peanut butter and its fats are what retard crystal formation in the syrup until the last moment during the cool-down. True brittles use whole nuts. Secondly is the final cooking temperature. The higher temperature in this recipe almost super-saturates the sugar solution and in using the fats in peanut butter to coat the crystals, the end result is a candy that breaks easily into shards. True brittles are cooked to a much LOWER temp and soda is used to react to the acids by foaming and spreading out the sugar crystals. True brittles are also pulled to stretch those crystals further. Without soda and stretching, brittles would be too thick, too dense and would be impossible to break without a hammer.
3. "Is there a connection" between your failed batches and rain/overcast skies? Absolutely. Try again on a day with humidity no higher than 60% (50% or lower would be ideal) and expect a huge difference. If you still have a failed batch on a dry day, I would suspect the culprit in your ingredients, utensils or method in decending order of complicity.
Alas! My favorite candy bar ever. Thank you again (and again) for these recipes 'spinningsugar'.
SpinningSugar: Ah, for you Carol, it is ALWAYS a pleasure! 😉
i just found this site looking for blown sugar info. thanks its really great. then i saw you butterfinger tab, have you tried working this as you would puff pastry? the sugar mass being the
'dough' and the peanut butter as the butter? It's a mess to start with, but with a well oiled/warm marble surface by the 3rd or 4th
turn it begins to come together with 6 or 7 turns you create over 2000 layers sugar and peanutbutter. then score, allow to cool and
chocolate dip. Cashew, almond, and/or hazelnut butter as well as tahini add a whole new dimension to this sweet treat.
SpinningSugar: Wow. What an amazing idea, Bill. I haven't a doubt in my mind how much your idea here would improve these bars in terms of texture with interior flakiness and immediate dissolving upon the first bite. Time- and technique-intensive, but what a payoff! Thank you!
I've used your recipe for the last two Xmas holidays and this time I tried turning it like puff pastry dough as Bill recommended. It works a treat and after 4-5 turns you end up with a product that literally melts in your mouth. Unlike conventional butterfingers which can be crunchy-hard and sticky when you chew, this batch broke all flaky and tender and melted in my mouth. This was especially helpful for my wife's father who can't take regular brittle any more due to dental issues. Thanks for the helpful recipe!
Excellent website, thank you.
Is the peanut butter in this recipe natural (peanuts and salt) or processed (Jif/Skippy, etc.)
SpinningSugar: Many thanks for your kind comment, Victoria.
Store-bought peanut butter will work perfectly well in this recipe. But if you are an anal purist as I am and also happen to have an older-model all-stainless Vita-Mix, you'll enjoy making your own completely natural homemade peanut butter, the flavor of which will kick this recipe up quite a few notches!
O….M….G…. Delish!
Thank you! I plan to make this for my boyfriend as a gift. He loves butterfingers and sometimes gets them at the movies. These may not exactly be healthy, but they're certainly better than the shelf-stable ones. Would these freeze alright?
I love this page. Thank you.
On a visit to Seattle, I tried a local confection called Peanut Bruttle – and fell in love! I live in Arkansas and have been unsuccessful finding anything remotely similar so I've looked for a recipe to make my own. This sounds like it might be close! Thanks for sharing
What a Great recipe!Thank you for all the effort you put into posting! It's just PERFECT! Regards,Grace
I love this site..why are you not posting more??…I think i copied all your recipes and tips..I am in pastry school, and sugar and chocolate will be next! 🙂
OMG i'm an avid butterfinger fan who is really really low on cash and livs w/ her grandma who has ton's of baking suplies!!! yay i'm soooo glad u put this recipe up!!!! i can finally have my butterfingers w/ out going to the store and spending 2 dollars for the amount of 2 of these!!!! your my life saver do you have anytips on makeing these is it an experience required thing (i'm only 14)
I just tried making this recipe now, but it didn't work and I was wondering if you could point me as to what I did wrong.
After the syrup boiled to 310, a bit past the hard crack stage, I removed it from the heat. I tried stirring the peanut butter, but in less than 20 seconds, the mass had become too solid. Then I tried pouring it on the warm pan, and it actually didn't pour, but rather drop in a single block.
Thinking that I might still be able to salvage the whole thing, I tried spreading it on the pan, but it started breaking into little shards.
Any idea?
Easy and to die for! Thanks for sharing such an awesome recipe.
I left a reply last week about trying to make the butterfingers at home, and how I must've made something wrong. I was asking for your help on this one.
But I see that this might be seen as a criticisim, so not only do you not answer, you also remove my reply so it wouldn't be seen.
This is your website, and you have the right to do whatever you see fit. I just hope that, in the future, you would at least have the courtesy to reply to a simple question.
This sounds so good my stomach hurts.
I made a batch of these formy mother's birthday, because she is a butterfinger fiend, and she loved them. My son and husband are beggin for more! Thank you!
Wow! I was leery of the recipe, not sure it could replicate the flakiness of the Butterfinger, but it is very, very good!
One tip for you, rather than scoring the mixture, I used a pizza cutter. Very easy and quick.
Thank you for this recipe, I'm hooked!
I wonder if it would be possible to somehow create a peanut butter sponge candy to emulate the Butterfinger? I recently had fun making some sponge candy; I might try to figure out a way to add peanut butter…
could you make the sugar free butterfiners and I'll pay you for making them PLEASE.am handycap so I cant get around I stay in my chair intil it' time to go to bed.
Does this recipe come out with the Peanut butter being crunchy?
OMG this is amazing. I just randomly stumbled on this and tried it immediately. I didn't even measure the peanut butter or the corn syrup and it came out perfect… took like 5 minutes (well I might eat them all before I get to covering them with chocolate). I can't believe how much easier this was to make than like… cookies…
kind of mind boggling for me, sorry
Thank you for a wonderful recipe and all the details!
I made these once, and didn't get them spread as fast, but the taste was amazing. I am trying again today, we live in the midwest, and maybe the cold makes a difference. Will try taking it off early. Thanks again! We have severe food allergies, and were grateful to find s sweet treat for Christmas.
Love your blog. Great tips on candy making and appreciate your words on the 'Weather Gods'. I have tried but you can not …. I repeat … can not fool Mother Nature! When the humidity is above 60% you are just in denial that your batch of candy is going to come out ok. Think about it….you are giving up precious moments and wasting your hard earned money! I know because I have done this several times recently! I knew better but….I did it anyway…. thinking I could finely beat the odds on this one day! LOL! I was seriously mistaken!
I am looking forward to making your recipe …. after it stops raining! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Since I found this page, I've been making this recipe for years…so just thought I would finally come on record with a big THANK YOU! I have done it by-the-book for holidays etc– and eventually discovered 'the lazy way' for when they will never leave my house.
In a dry climate, these can easily be made in the microwave– stir together room temp sugar/corn syrup/water in 2 qt Pyrex "huge" measuring cup type high-sided bowl. Microwave 2 minutes, stir (with new spoon) until it's perfectly clear. Back in microwave for 6-8 minutes without touching– the correct temp almost always coincides with the mixture just beginning to turn amber (do not let it go past the first blush of amber.)
Stir in the peanut butter (new wooden spoon) with a whipping bit of elbow grease, then turn out the mixture onto Silpat (silicone mat) or whatever you're using, and flatten it evenly with a silicone spatula quickly, before it is too hard to do so. While it is still hot, sprinkle milk choc chips on it and wait about 15 minutes– they will melt in place, then take a spatula and smear them about– as you would for English toffee. Let it cool a couple hours…crack into serving sized pieces.


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