Cooking with gas.

[Alan SHARP]

Greetings all.

Once again the other Alan "currie" in Australia, found for me a masthead that I was unsuccessful in finding in AU or NZ [in TROVE or PapersPast, or yet to be digitized].

By using his well honed lateral thinking skills, he found the paper being copied was a UK one, announcing the engagement of a young couple, one Australian born and the other New Zealand born, but both having roots back to the boarder of Renfrew and Lanarkshire, and further confounding/compounding our roots. Why ? - yet another example of the old Parish surnames being re-reunited in marriage, that I've collected from the 1800 OPR's and onwards, to my parents generation.

To find the masthead Alan did further PapersPast searches to see if other NZ papers had copied the UK announcement, and in doing so, made more information available, something I had forgotten to do, when I immediately went searching for the paper quoted.

In his search results he sent me a PP link, which was a rather lengthy one from the Woman’s Column, and there at the top of the page, was the following tip for cooking with gas 1922 - bed sit style, which I found very revealing, and a fascinating statement about the innovative pioneering flair that our pioneers were forced to adopt, to succeed in far off lands, but I can also see in being very applicable to the war times in the UK.

[Edited clip in the TS gallery] http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... fullsize=1

Alan SHARP.

[Currie]

Thanks Alan,

I missed that bit, and was probably only looking for the highlighted words.

Nowadays that would likely come with a warning not to try this at home, or maybe a disclaimer that no responsibility would be taken for any cooks killed or injured during the process.

All the best,
Alan

[AndrewP]

I missed that bit, and was probably only looking for the highlighted words.

Nowadays that would likely come with a warning not to try this at home, or maybe a disclaimer that no responsibility would be taken for any cooks killed or injured during the process.

... or the long-term risks from using asbestos.

All the best,

AndrewP