Tag: mother-in-law’s house

Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House: Kid Stuff

Notes for this week’s CBC column… ***If you have children, you know how child-related stuff tends to pile up. And since kids grow up so fast, some of it is barely used before they’re too big for it and it gets put away somewhere, never to see the light of day again… …unless your son-in-law …

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Hear one of my "Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House" interviews online

It’s the one about souvenirs, and I just discovered The Afternoon Edition has put it online here. Enjoy!

Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House: Music

Notes for this week’s CBC radio segment of Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House: ****Regina has a long history as a musical city, with musical clubs, choirs, bands and, of course, the Regina Symphony Orchestra getting started within a few years of the city’s founding. Ed Willett’s grandparents-in-law, Nancy and Sam Goodfellow, were an …

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Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House: Souvenirs

Notes for this week’s CBC radio segment of Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House. UPDATE: Listen to the actual interview! **** Souvenirs seem to have some strange mesmeric power over travelers. You visit a place with beautiful scenery, a long and fascinating history, great restaurants and a vibrant night life, and somehow you decide …

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Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House: The Kitchen

Here are this week’s notes for the “Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House” segment that will be on between 4:30 and 5 p.m. today on CBC Saskatchewan’s Afternoon Edition. In the radio version, the segment about the aluminum coffee pot got left out, so that’s your special blog bonus for the week! (And again, …

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"Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House…"

…which I’ve long talked about turning into a book (and maybe a CD, and a stage show, and…) finally became a reality in one form today: I’ve started a new limited column series for CBC Saskatchewan’s Afternoon Edition, hosted by Colin Grewar, with that as its title. So here’s today’s entry, more or less (these …

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Mrs. Beeton’s Ad of the Day

All the advantages of a gas cooker with none of the disadvantages, this oil cooker promises it “Cooks the Food without Cooking the Cook,” and who could argue with that? I find it interesting how many of these old ads try to connect something that would seem to be merely a matter of simple preference–cooking …

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Mrs. Beeton’s Ad of the Day

Gordon & Dilworth’s doesn’t appear to be in operation any longer, but I found the old ad at left, also from Gordon & Dilworth’s, at the British Library’s site: it rhapsodizes even more effusively about the glories of tomato catsup. “This is the popular national sauce of America,” it proclaims, and ads, “It is made …

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Mrs. Beeton’s Ad of the Day

I can’t find out much about this–it mostly shows up on Google in the form of vintage bottles of ink being sold to collectors (I didn’t know there were vintage-ink-bottle collectors until now!), but I did find an interesting mention in an old scientific paper online, called Herring Investigations at Plymouth, written by E. Ford, …

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Mrs. Beeton’s Ad of the Day

A public service announcement by the British Commercial Gas Association, telling you in no uncertain terms it is unfair to blame the cook if she is forced to cook on anything other than a gas stove. If she does have a gas stove, of course, you may say what you like about her, since she …

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Mrs. Beeton’s Ad of the Day

Yes, John Oakey & Sons, “the pioneers in introducing the concept of coated abrasives to the world,” live on…in a company called John Oakey & Mohan Limited, incorporated in 1962, “manufacturers of high performance coated abrasives.” From the first link above: John Oakey who was born in 1814 founded John Oakey & Sons Ltd in …

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Mrs. Beeton’s Ad of the Day

Another company that’s still around, although now in addition to being a food retailer they have “interests in financial services.” Their history is online. The section called “The Early Years,” below, takes the company right up to the time of his 1915 ad: Sainsbury’s was founded in 1869 by John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury. …

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