tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post3608856232137453305..comments2024-03-08T17:06:56.189+00:00Comments on mrs miniver's daughter: maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13955194101659665925noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-40509913017178380622017-04-10T22:17:59.991+01:002017-04-10T22:17:59.991+01:00I loved Angela Brazil, too - somebody donated a wh...I loved Angela Brazil, too - somebody donated a whole stack of them when I was about 11. They were old-fashioned even back then. I do wish I'd kept them but my mum was a passionate chucker-out. Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17554985023503646664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-78416566654861520292017-04-10T20:46:40.850+01:002017-04-10T20:46:40.850+01:00No, not yet read Terms and Conditions although I h...No, not yet read Terms and Conditions although I had heard about it (and had forgotten about it.) Will seek that out, not that I went to boarding school but I loved reading the Angela Brazil books about boarding schools although they were for generations of girls long before me! <br />Margaret P galanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14190356279359463949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-53450661586260761122017-04-09T21:59:55.822+01:002017-04-09T21:59:55.822+01:00I was flagging, Margaret - too much information, s...I was flagging, Margaret - too much information, some of it quite dull! And the tragic discovery that i didn't much like her. But have you read Terms and Conditions, YMG's new(ish) book about girls'boarding schools? Much more fun. Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17554985023503646664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-30083392911805687822017-04-09T21:21:38.591+01:002017-04-09T21:21:38.591+01:00I have the book and have read half of it, I actual...I have the book and have read half of it, I actually got fed up with it but I might, at some stage, return to it.<br />Fancy complaining about the quality of cannabis to the police, yes a twit of the first order! It seems that someone approaching retirement age could be "Mrs Miniver's" (aka, Jan Struther, aka Joyce Anstruther) grandson ... oh, how the years have rolled on by!<br />Margaret P <br />www.margaretpowling.comgalanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14190356279359463949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-7364276332995273752017-04-05T20:42:16.284+01:002017-04-05T20:42:16.284+01:00Perhaps more than you need to know about Mrs M'...Perhaps more than you need to know about Mrs M's creator, Darlene. Do you thintk you'd get along with VB? Far too serious for me, I think! Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17554985023503646664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-87332559910625920562017-04-04T20:01:36.684+01:002017-04-04T20:01:36.684+01:00I think it's quite possible that you and Vera ...I think it's quite possible that you and Vera Brittain would have got along! Think I'll give this book a pass, but I did love my yellowed Virago copy of Mrs Miniver.Cosy Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17818379449207007470noreply@blogger.com