Grr................. Anne Atkins

Gally I think my/Gransnet version is simpler.

Bet that egg custard page has never been so popular.

I'm gonna make that custard. I love the flavour of vanilla.

Yes, it does work but you have to insert your typed bit at the 'preview' stage.

egg custard

Anagram I don't think that would work. Give it a try on this thread.

Lilyg I agree!

" She is a vicar's wife who has managed to get herself invited...." Bit sexist? She is also a novelist & writer on religious topics. Could we please have a forum titled 'Anti-religion'? So many of the messages on 'Religion and Spirituality' are actually anti. Some of them quite savage.

Can you dispense with the double brackets and just tick the 'convert' box, or wouldn't that work if you want to add a typed bit?

Good heavens Jingle I don't understand a word of that - can you say it again

To do links, right click on address bar of whatever webpage you want to link to. Click on 'copy' in the list of things on offer. This takes the web address into your mouse (yes. It does) Then go back to message box and click to start. Enter double square brackets. Right click, then click on 'paste' in the list that appears. This will send the address of the web page out of your mouse and onto the screen. Leave a space then type whatever you would like to type. This bit will appear in blue and you have to hope that the reader of the post has the necessary good eyesight and knows that they have to click on this. If you have any doubts, just type 'click here'. Enter double square brackets facing the other way. Go to preview message and test link to make sure it ok. Get rid of the webpage by clicking on the little cross and that takes you back to the message box. Click on post message.

Ok?

Anagram. Yes. Totally agree about Martha who did all the work whilst Mary got the praise from Jesus just for sitting and listening! All very well to say that heavenly things are more important than the earthly stuff, but then, nobody notices housework until it's not done!

stansgran I rememberseeing that there was a way to do those clever links, so i did a search and found this:-

"if you type [[ http://www.whatever.com here ]] without the space after the first double bracket, it will give you a link that goes to whatever.com but shows 'here' " (If they had not put in the space after the first double bracket in that example, it would, of course, have shown "here" in blue and not shown how to do it)

Testing egg custard

Yes!!! It works. (So does the egg custard)

Anyway! I've a 6am start tomorrow!

Why am I still doing this?

Salt was as you said, valuable!

Jingle how do you get those references in blue-I am always impressed that i just click on and find wikipedia. And I suspect we are just meant to be good and do as a male patriarchal figure tells us and we will remain alive and useful. I always understood salt to be a very valuable commodity which bothers me to qualify as a punishment

Martha and Mary!

In those days, possibly! Although I do recall some stories where women were portrayed favourably. I always felt sorry for the one who did all the cooking and cleaning while her sister just sat at Jesus's feet and listened to his stories, though....

Sisters? Apparently yes. Can't remember the sources though!
Bur Miriam was married and would have had lots of children.
Only males would be recorded.
For as we know they are the only ones who matter!

Pint glass?

Perry. I like perry.

Only one glass though!

What are you drinking, jings?

I can't actually remember what the subject was.

That's very good Bags.

I agree about the attitudes and mores of the times, nag. That's why most of it is irrelevant except from a historical point of view today, like any other old stories (old as in ancient rather than 'any old').

I'm not going to read that link, jings. I know what the sensible message is, as does anyone who thinks about the subject at all, with or without religion or faith.