I believe it was Oscar Wilde who said England and America are two countries separated by a common language. Truer words were never spoken. Take for example in a hospital. When I heard one of the nurses called sister, I expected to see a woman in a nun’s habit. If you addressed a surgeon in …
Category Archive: From Within Going Dippy!
The Going Dippy! Blog – Created from the heart of the Going Dippy! Empire by Sarah. Random Musings, Random Ramblings and Various Other Titbits. Expect the unexpected…..
Going Dippy! goes national
On or about July 1st Going Dippy! Will have its first advertisement in the national monthly magazine Handmade Living. With a print run of 35,000 it is distributed to larger retailers such as W. H. Smith, HobbyCraft, Tesco, Sainsbury and Asda as well as hundreds of smaller news stands. In future issues we hope to …
Is the humble potato the only veg left with flavour?
I’ve always been a little fussy about my vegetables, but I have always had a prejudice against raw vegetables, so much so that my mother offered to pay me $20 to eat a small side salad.Up until her passing at age 80, I still hadn’t collected what for most people would have been easy money. …
Another Random Rambling
Sometimes people get a little crazy when trying to think up politically correct nomenclature. Take for example some of the following. Garbage men became sanitary engineers. Housewives became domestic engineers. Short people were vertically challenged. Bald men became folically challenged. Stupid people are intellectually challenged. Obese people are horizontally challenged. And it goes on and …
This weeks’ random rambling
Spending a week with the wife’s ex. Exes are usually exes for a reason and usually for several reasons. Our situation is a bit unusual, but no real exception. The ex has been spoiled by his new partner and thus has acquired a few bad habits and it is my mission as his exs new …
A retrospective of our first two years in business!
A retrospective of our first two years in business!
2010 – The Beginning
March 6 the Hutton Farmer’s Market was our first event that made us a business in the eyes of the HMRC. We were excited and hopes were high. By the end about three hours, we had made about £25 and Going Dippy! had been launched.
Fun with Words
Words, their origins and meanings have fascinated me my whole life. In American schools of my generation we were taught vocabulary as part of our English class until we were fifteen years of age. We learned the meanings of prefixes and suffixes. As a result, today I can break down an unfamiliar word and have a general idea of what …
No common sense!
The English poet Alexander Pope put forward the thought that in love as in literature we are often amazed at what others choose. I was reminded of this the other evening while watching Judge Judy. You see lots of ex-spouses and ex-boyfriends and girlfriends suing each other over common sense issues. It seems that what …
From the old time remedy cupboard
Aching joints – Crush hot pepper or hot chilli seeds with a mortar and pestle, mix with cold cream, use as a heat rub on affected joints. Teething pain – rub gums with whiskey. It warms the gums easing the pain. Tooth ache or sore gums- place tarragon over the affected area. The trots – …
Random Musings and Ramblings on Courage.
Down through the centuries wiser and greyer heads than mine have said some pretty profound things regarding courage. The following are a few of my favourites with a bit of editorializing by me. Fear, real or perceived, triggers a fight or flight response in most species. It is responsible in part for the survival of …
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