[Magdalen] Today's Google Doodle?

[Marion Thompson]

I _preserve _stuff  in glass jars.  Canning would only be in a tin.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 5/5/2015 1:13 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 5/4/15 11:30 PM, Lesley de Voil wrote:
>> Oh, I see. Grace was still in Monday when she asked! Christofori was 
>> yesterday!
>> <Sigh> This dateline thing still trips me up after all these years.
>> It is, after all, already Tuesday afternoon here.
>
> Back when Gaynor McCartney was hanging out in #Anglican on dalnet IRC 
> chat with us, every day, even casual chat about gardening or cooking 
> could get really confusing, what with the differences in date, time of 
> day, and season of the year, not to mention the difference in Kiwi and 
> American English.  I changed computers, too, during that period, so I 
> kept a little international clock app on the new computer set to 
> Auckland time, which did help.  But then she'd talk of things like 
> "bottling" her homegrown peaches (when there was snow outside my 
> window! ;^) ).  Was she cooking "peach nectar" from them?  (I don't 
> know about Australian English, but in the US, a "bottle" has a narrow 
> neck, used only for liquids, or possibly something tiny like capers).  
> Turned out, that time, she was talking about the usual wide-mouthed 
> "canning" jars (which makes another bit of confusion or mental 
> disconnect, when you think about it: a "can" is a metal cylinder, but 
> when you do home "canning", it's almost always in glass jars, with 
> wide mouths. Not logical, even speaking American, but grooved into our 
> brains on automatic).  My brain could get surreal.  And we were both 
> typing English, near instantaneously!
>
> The world may be ready for global communications, but I'm not sure 
> that the human brain is.
>