Posted on 01/12/2009 12:55:39 PM PST by llevrok
PETER COLLIER and his brother Ian had never lived apart from their mother until she died.
Now Peter has left the home filled with memories of his mum and is preparing to marry Donna,
The sheet metal worker and his brother Ian worshipped the ground their mum Grace walked on
A typical day would see the brothers leaving for work at 5.30am with sandwiches lovingly packed by their mum and returning to a hot tea at 5pm.
Their only regular weekly outings consisted of escorting Grace to the hairdressers and the odd Sunday lunch at the local carvery.
“She was the most loveable, kind-hearted woman you could ever meet. It never occurred to me to look for anyone else.”
But old age was beginning to get the better of Grace and after a fall
Concerned about meeting the costs of the care their mum needed, the brothers bought a Lotto ticket and, on February 14, they hit the jackpot of £8.5million.
The brothers’ first priority was to employ local private care firm Nightingales to make daily visits to Grace.
In March 2005 a new careworker, Donna, now 43, helped Grace each morning get washed and dressed for the day.
Peter says: “Donna struck me as being really kind. She made mum look and smell nice, which was really important to her.
Sadly, Grace passed away, aged 86, on April 6, 2006, leaving her devoted sons and daughter Jennifer heartbroken. The family felt it was only fair to invite Donna to the funeral. Peter says: “I wanted her funeral to include everyone who knew what an amazing person she was.
“Donna was still married in 2006 but after the funeral she phoned up regularly to ask how Ian and I were coping. I was touched by that.”
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He won’t be a millionaire for long.
Dear Straight Dope:
Can you shed any light on the etymology of "Spotted Dick"? It's a British concoction, a steamed, log-shaped suet pudding studded with currants, hence the "spotted." But why the "dick"?
The first explanation that leaps to mind seems highly unlikely, but I haven't been able to find a detailed and credible account of how this venerable dessert really did get its name. The best I found in over 40 pages of Google results was someone who thinks he read somewhere that the words "dick," "dog" and "duff" when applied to puddings were all derivatives of the word "dough." OK, "duff" and "dog" seem pretty plausible linguistic mutations, but even allowing for strange regional British accents, "dick" seems a little bit of a stretch. My British parents are also at a loss to explain.
— Jayne
We just tackled the origin of "Dick" as a nickname and a few other usages--a riding whip, an apron, abbreviation for "dictionary," a policeman, a declaration, and (of course), the penis.
With all these varied usages, you got a problem with "dick" being also derived from "pudding"? My sources all pretty much agree with the derivation, without being specific how. However, I can see "pudding" become "puddink" becoming "puddick" and then just "dick."
The word "dick" has appeared in any number of strange places. Around the 1840s, "dick" was used to mean a type of hard cheese; when treacle sauce was added, it became "treacle dick", and finally when currants or raisins were added (looking like little spots), the "spotted dick" was born.
The earliest recipes for spotted dick are from 1847. For non-British readers, "spotted dick" is a boiled suet pudding, with bits of dried fruit (usually raisins or currants) that (as already noted) look like little spots.
The Oxford Companion to Food comments that, strictly speaking, "spotted dick" is made by taking a flat sheet, spreading sugar and raisins on it, then rolling it up. A similar dessert is "spotted dog," a plain cylinder of suet paste with the raisins and currants and sugar stuck into it, so that the spots are visible on the outside. Both spotted dick and spotted dog were traditionally boiled (or even steamed) in a cloth, but nowadays they are usually baked.
The dessert is slightly different in Ireland. In Ireland in the late 1800s, the tradition of yeast-bread manufacture was not strong, so most breads were raised with bicarbonate of soda and an acid, rather than with yeast, and thus called soda breads. Thus, the spotted dick in Ireland is sweet soda bread, with sugar, currants, and raisins, and it's also called the spotted dog or railway cake.
But the next and next and next will be, most probably, golddiggers, too.
I think leasing is the proper option.
“Makes one wonder if the two are a couple of momma’s boys.”
I didn’t wonder for a second - they are the poster children for momma’s boys. Pathetic.
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