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Jazzy wrote: "Ah yes back in the days when we had 3, MAYBE 4 channels!

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I was in Scotland in 1989 and where I was there were only 4 channels.

When I was kid we got only 2 channels due to mountains until I was about 10. Then our area got "cable" (NOT cable like now, literally a cable to bypass the mountains and these were air-broadcasting channels) and got a few more.

Hello everyone!

I am Kristina, and I live in North Dakota. I am excited to discover new to me classics in this group. I am expecting my second child in May, so I require a strong nonalcoholic drink, please, Jazzy :)

Welcome to the group, Kristina! And thank you for sharing your wonderful news with us.

Congratulations Kristina. My favourite moccktail is a Virgin Mary, all this talk means I might have to go and buy som tomato juice. I'm loving Jazzy's recipes though, can't wait to see what she comes up with for you.

Tania - I just love the way you entered Winnie the Pooh into the equation


Karin - Scotland is so beautiful, I think the government thought people shouldn't be inside watching TV, but outside enjoying the landscape! ahaha

Kristina! Welcome, so pleased to have you on the show.
Congratulations!!

For the pregnant lady, I've got a Mocktail Mule

Moscow Mule Mocktail
Crisp, cool and refreshing - this mocktail is a non-alcoholic version of a classic Moscow Mule!Traditionally Moscow mules are made with ginger beer, vodka, lime and soda. They are served in beautiful copper mugs with lots of ice, so the drink keeps cool during the warmer weather. This mocktail recipe is made without the vodka and with some extra lime and mint to give it a kick! They are perfect for all seasons. Super refreshing for a hot summers day, but suitable for the cooler weather too, with the beautiful spiciness of the ginger beer. Top them with sprigs of fresh mint and lime wheels and you have a perfect Moscow mule mocktail ready to serve! There really is something special about mules and their gorgeous copper mugs. But if you don’t have the mugs, don’t stress – these still look and taste fabulous in regular glasses.

Ingredients
1/2 cup ginger beer
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Splash soda

Instructions
Mix ingredients in a copper mug 3/4 full of crushed ice.
Stir together.
Garnish with lime wedge.

Recipe Notes
*If you want a real Moscow Mule, you can replace the club soda with some vodka.

A Moscow Mule sounds excellent! Now I need to find a classic book set in Russia to top it off.

Kristina wrote: "A Moscow Mule sounds excellent! Now I need to find a classic book set in Russia to top it off."

Have you read War and Peace? I just finished it (again.) I love it!

I made it halfway through, and I did enjoy it. It has always been at the back of my mind to reread it and finish it!

Kristina wrote: "I made it halfway through, and I did enjoy it. It has always been at the back of my mind to reread it and finish it!"

Which translation are you reading? I just read the Garnett, though my favourite is the Pevear & Volokhonsky. I also read the Briggs. The Garnett is the most lyrical I think.

Rosemary read the Maude and she enjoyed that.

Jazzy wrote: "Tania - I just love the way you entered Winnie the Pooh into the equation


Karin - Scotland is so beautiful, I think the government thought people shouldn't be inside watching TV, but outside enj..."

This was back in the late 1980s, so it has probably changed by now.

One of my brothers did a 6 month sabbatical in Edinburgh about 5 years ago and in a year is going to Dunedin, NZ (Dunedin means second Edinburgh)--not fair, is it? He opts for the shorter ones so he can have one every three years. Due to various job changes (his choice) he didn't get tenure for a long time so this will be his third.

I have a friend who lives in NZ, her husband was from there so they moved there, live on a farm, and have lots of little ones.

Lucky brother!

Sammy Davis Jr. visits Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin at MGM Studios, where the duo were making Some Came Running in 1958. The movie co-starred Rat Pack "mascot" Shirley MacLaine, who years later would affectionately describe her old friends as "primitive children who would put crackers in each other's beds and dump spaghetti on new tuxedos."


Dean Martin smoked a cigarette beside his dressing room door backstage before his performance in Las Vegas in 1958.


Sammy Davis Jr. onstage during rehearsals for the Broadway musical Golden Boy, 1964.


Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin tool around the Warner Bros. lot while making 1965's Marriage on the Rocks for the studio.


Sinatra and Martin take a cigarette break during the recording of Sleep Warm in 1958. The album was re-released in 1963 with a much more direct title: Dean Martin Sings/Sinatra Conducts.


 Dean Martin entertains a crowd in 1958.

Hi, i'm Jacquie from the frozen tundra of Michigan in the US - currently in Texas so not too bad for January. It looks like the party is really hopping!

Hi, Jacquie. Welcome to the group! It's pretty frozen here in Toronto as well.

I just love the pictures, Jazzy!

Yes, so do I! =)

Here in New Jersey near Philadelphia we're not as frozen as some of the others in this group. Today's high temperature will be around 25°F (around -4°C), the coldest day of our winter so far. Considering that many of you live where subzero Fahrenheit (<-18°C) temperatures are the norm, that may be southeast--i.e., downright-tropical. New Jersey being on America's east coast may be a moderating factor in the winter. It doesn't get super cold here.

I'm glad you like the photos Chad and Nike!

Welcome to the show Jacquie and Jim! Thanks for posting the temperatures in Celsius too! I'll have to get you two a couple of winter cocktails.

Caramel and apple hot toddy with cinnamon?

There is no better way to warm up than with a hot toddy. Fireplace optional, but highly recommended.

INGREDIENTS
2/3 cup (150g) caster sugar
2/3 cup (165ml) apple juice
4 cinnamon quills
2/3 cup (165ml) apple pie liqueur (we used Moreau brand – substitute Calvados)
Whipped cream, to serve
Ground cinnamon, to dust

METHOD
1.Place sugar in a medium heavy-based saucepan over high heat with 1 tbs of water. Cook, swirling pan, for 5-6 minutes or until golden and caramel. Using a metal spoon (and being mindful of the steam), stir in 2 cups (500ml) water and swirl pan until caramel and water are combined. Stir in apple juice and cinnamon quills, then stir in the liqueur.
2.Divide among glasses, spoon over whipped cream and dust with cinnamon to serve.

And if you don't have a fireplace, just put this on.

Love the Rat Pack photos Jazzy! 😍 thank you!

My pleasure, treasure!


Sammy Davis Jr and May-Britt on their wedding day.

Jazzy wrote: "My pleasure, treasure!


Sammy Davis Jr and May-Britt on their wedding day."

She is a Swedish actrise and still alive today! Though I believe she still lives in the US,

Oh that's right Nike! She lives in California and is 87 years old! Sadly her 3rd husband died in 2017.

Jacquie wrote: "Hi, i'm Jacquie from the frozen tundra of Michigan in the US - currently in Texas so not too bad for January. It looks like the party is really hopping!"

I love the literary license :)!


For those who don't know, tundra never has trees ;) (but does exist in the contiguous 48 states of the US in some of the taller mountains in the Rockies that extend beyond the tree line at whatever latitude they are located.)

Here's a view of Michigan as a frozen tundra 🥶. Toronto is like our friends just up the road. Such a nice place too.

I loved the fun facts about tundra, just like an in person party 😀

With that link did you see the space satellite that crashed in someone's Michigan yard?

I was up at 4 am looking up the Tundra.

I actually have seen the tundra when my husband and I took the train from Winnipeg to Churchill, in Manitoba. You could see the trees getting smaller and shorter and finally disappearing. We didn't actually go out on the tundra when we got there. This was in mid July and it was pouring rain and windy, so the part of the tundra we did see was covered with big mud puddles.
We went there to see the belugas, and we saw lots of them, from a whale friendly smallish boat. It was freezing on the water but exhilarating hearing them communicate with each other through a microphone the guide had in the water.
The train was fun too. I had the top bunk.

That is a great memory Rosemarie. I've never seen something like that but it made me think of Lindisfarne and the vast expanse where the tide comes in.

Here is my country (with Norway to the left and Finland to the right) during winter. I'm living at the West Coast so there's usually no snow here, this winter though it has been snow here. I've missed it. It'so beautiful. And even though the temperature does not drop so low here at the coast the wind is not nice at all this time of year. Many people from up north who comes down here are surprised. They experience that the harsh, raw winds makes it feel colder here than up north where it's perhaps - 20 C and sometimes colder than that. (I don't know the Fahrenheit equivalent to that).

It looks like the silhouette of a man dancing on the beach! And sounds dreamy. I should like to go one day.

-20 C... that would be *consults online chart* ...-4 F

A man dancing on a beach ...
suddenly you made me see unappropriate things in that picture =D!

But you're very welcome to Sweden =)

Jazzy wrote: "It looks like the silhouette of a man dancing on the beach! And sounds dreamy. I should like to go one day.

-20 C... that would be *consults online chart* ...-4 F"

Aah, are you seeing like an arm and a part of torso? I saw something totally different, I viewed my country and Finland as something totally different for the first time in my life. Now I wonder if I'll ever get rid of that picture!

This group is decadent for sure, messing with one's mind like that =D!!!

Decadence is our middle name! Vill du ha något att dricka?

The largest prime number ever found is 2 to the 82,589,933rd power minus 1, which has over 24.8 million digits and would be 25 MB if written.

I just love the randomness here. Would you like some Twiglets, Jim? oh wait! The fondue pot is hot now, let's join the fun!

Jazzy wrote: "With that link did you see the space satellite that crashed in someone's Michigan yard?

I was up at 4 am looking up the Tundra."

Wow--where are the trees??? Covered up? This looks like a wintry tundra scene even if it's not!!!!!

FYI, here is non-mountain top tundra in the summer (this is from Tombstone National Park in the Yukon). No trees because of the permafrost that is there year round below that topsoil.

It looks a lot like Scotland!

Got some good news today, even though I went to my local county library branch this afternoon to find out that it and the rest of the county library branches have been closed since January 4, because of the omicron variant. New Jersey (Rebecca NJ's former stomping grounds) has been averaging something like 70,000 new cases per day. But virtual, online and curbside services at the library are still on, and all library cards, which had expired December 31, 2021, have been extended to February 28, 2022.

Jazzy wrote: "I just love the randomness here. Would you like some Twiglets, Jim? oh wait! The fondue pot is hot now, let's join the fun!

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Lol Jazzy this is fabulous! My parents had a fondue pot that looked like that one, back in the 70s. I was a VERY picky eater, so when my parents pulled the fondue pot out and I was allowed to have toasted bread and hot melted cheese for dinner, I was one happy little girl 😂

Jazzy wrote: "Decadence is our middle name! Vill du ha något att dricka?"

Wow! I appreciate your question in perfect Swedish! You have already given me a blueberry drink that I still haven't tasted - but I've ordered it from my oldest son who works as a cocktail and sake-bartender so hopefully I will enjoy it once I dare to go out and mingle in this covid-world of ours. =)

Great news Jim! Books are coming your way.

Cozy_Pug I went to a fondue party once! We had cheese at one end and chocolate at the other and it was loads of fun. I saw a fondue set for sale at a charity shop not long ago but someone else said, Eee! A Fondue pot! and bought it. haha I love thinking of you happily eating the fondue toast.

Nike, I went out to band practice on Fri/Mon/Tues so far, three different bands. There were more of us on Tues as it was a community band so i'm staying in til tomorrow again. I will have to keep practicing the Swedish. I can read and write some simple sentences some but speaking it is scary! I don't think I'm ready for that. Although I can say in Norwegian - I can't see my bedroom floor anymore! Which surely must be useful sometime, somewhere.

Let's dance

I'm always willing to dance! :D What music are we dancing on?

Wynonie Harris!

And Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog!

Jazzy wrote: "Great news Jim! Books are coming your way.

Cozy_Pug I went to a fondue party once! We had cheese at one end and chocolate at the other and it was loads of fun. I saw a fondue set for sale at a ch..."

Lol!!! =D =D =D

Well, if you are waking up in someone elses bedroom you won't see your own bedroom floor any longer ;D. I guess you already know that Swedish and Norwegian are so alike that we oftencan understand each other most perfectly (unless it's an odd dialect). And there are also a few words that doesn't mean the same thing -like the word "rolig" which in Norwegian means calm but in Swedish means fun.

So maybe you already know how to say the same sentence you mentioned above in Swedish: "Jag kan inte se mitt sovrumsgolv längre!"

Only one of those videos was available over here, but it was the second and suits the photo!

I am honored to be invited to this exclusive group/party! I know Jazzy from a couple of other groups and I see several of my other GR friends are here as well.

Jazzy, my husband's grandfather came from the Newcastle area. Our last name is unusual here in Wisconsin, USA, but apparently common in that area.

I am of an age to remember the Rat Pack, the Twist (which it looks like is in the picture above), and fondue. Hard to realize that things I grew up with are now antiques/classics!

hahaha tack så mycket Nike!

Karin that was the song I thought of first but the other was a whole album so if you can find Wynonie Harris, they're probably all good.
He put a big sign blinking neon sign outside his house with an arrow pointing to it saying THE WORLD'S GREATEST BLUES SINGER LIVES HERE. Neighbours complained to the police that the lights were keeping them up at night.