Thank you so much for all your welcomes. I am currently trying to type with one cat on lap (cross) and other right in front of keyboard (determined), so this will have to be short!
I have to admit that I am not in fact Scottish - I come from London but I have lived up here for 18+ years, 9 in Aberdeen city and prior to that 9 in the wilds of Aberdeenshire.
I did study Latin to A-level when at school, but will have a look at that part of the site, as if it's not too difficult I might attempt to join in.... I would really love to learn Ancient Greek, which my school did not teach - many of my friends at university studied Classics, and I always wished I could have done that, so if the Greek lessons are ever reinstated, I'll be there.
Re the references to food in Barbara Pym's books, she seems to have been very interested in it - and I do actually have a copy of the Barbara Pym cookery book, which was published after her death, and gives the recipes for some of the dishes that keep turning up in the novels. Many of the references in the books are indicators of class, and there is also some emphasis on meat being most important for men - whichi was, I think, the prevailing view in post war Britain.
Anyway, will keep all of that for the discussion when it starts,
In the meantime, could anyone tell me how to post photos on this site? - I am a hopeless technophobe and can't even see which button to press,
Thanks
Rosemary
