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Hello, Rosalind,
I had not known of carob until today.
Another word for my vocabulary, if I ever remember it!

Hi, Rusty!
I am sorry for the delay in thanking you for the parsings.
I became involved in a long phone call....and then dinner was ready!
I had brimstone = butterfly, but couldn't see the rest!
I was confused by brimstone also meaning "sulphur" ...and sulphur being yellow?
Muddling!
I am glad to have just read about "carob," because I had omitted to include that in my request!
I have the Winter Olympic highlights on, as I write this...but I expect you will have seen all this already.
Very windy!

Hello, Elle!
No thanks required!
I am pleased to help!
"Carob" made me work to solve it!
I had not heard it before.
I wondered at first if it could be "Carib".
I remember James Michener writing about them.
The Caribs were a warlike people!
I have seen some of the highlights of the Olympics, but was hoping to see the Alpine events.
But the high winds....!
There are more scheduled for tomorrow, so fingers crossed.
Elise Christie is in the Short Track tomorrow, too.

rusty

Thanks - so there is sugar in - carbs. I didnt know that - thought carbs was just spuds and pasta!

Hello, Jigjag.
I looked in Anne Bradfords Crosword Dictionary, and under "carbohydrate" she has "sugar".
Personally, I would not know, but it looks sound to me.

Hi, Rusty!
I have been thinking about James Michener (after you mentioned him)....... and how disillusioned we became about him, after reading his autobiography!
Previously, I had lent several of his books to a friend, and, when she was last round here, she saw his autobiography lying on the coffee table .
I had been sorting out books to go to the charity shop.
She took it to read....
I did mention that she might not like what she found out.
I shall be interested to get her feedback in due course.
But what he and his wife did to those children.....
After that, I never did read "Alaska" - I just couldn't bring myself to do so!
Yes, the high winds looked very dangerous?
Especially in the Women's Snow Boarding events?
It was scary to watch.

Hello, Elle!
I agree about Michener.
And he was a man in the think tank of several US Presidents and a friend of the Polish Pope.
Admired by many.
He had feet of clay!
I feel the same about a certain golfer who dumped the girl he was to marry by sending her a text message!
Alaska is a good book, too.
I learned quite a lot about Russia in it.
And the Pribilofs!
Yes, the high winds are causing problems.
Hope they calm down a bit.

Hi, Rusty!
Ah yes, the Pribilofs!
A better destination than "sending someone to Coventry"!
It is a while since you mentioned that!
I still have "Alaska" ...maybe I should just grit my teeth and read it?
It is the only book remaining of Mr M's that I own, and have not yet read.
A waste really of a potentially good story, otherwise, but I was so disgusted by Michener's actions in "real life" that I could not bring myself to read it.
I shall think about it.........
I think the weather has gone a bit warmer....we have rain forecast for tomorrow.
About 9 am ish?
I hope I get most of the walk finished, before a downpour!

Hello Elle and Rusty

Hope you are both fine - Here, all is quiet on the Eastern (or is it
Western) front;

May I ask what it is that Mr. Michener did to the children?

I think my husband quite liked Michener and I am sure he read
Alaska, particularly because he was born in Alaska and never
landed in the States before his 6th birthday.

Hello, Elle!
I do not think you would like the book, although it is very good.
Up there with Centennial.
But, have a wee think!
It is cold here!


Hello, Pigale!
Hope you are getting through the Winter OK!
Now, Michener!
He married this lady and they adopted children from an orphanage.
Some time after that he and his wife parted and got divorced.
They sent the children back to the orphanage.
Horrible people!