Yay for Twistees! Though I'm not sure I'm overjoyed at the thought of a cheesy (in more senses than one?) snack being considered as one of Malta's finer cultural creations. LOL. What about rabbit, or the elusive lampuki pie? Or even pastizzi?!
Re. the fic, whenever you have time is fine by me. Really - it won't kill me to have to exercise some patience! In fact it will probably be good for me. :) I'd rather you took your time and enjoyed the discussion!
As for "research", it was all done online. And I found a mention of the Birgu naval bakery while Googling, but needed two large and well known ones located near Plymouth and the mouth of the Thames, so couldn't fit it in, much as I would have liked to. I also checked a couple of words in the Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/), since I like to avoid obvious anachronisms where possible. The meaning of "waspish" as I used it surprisingly dates from 1566! And then I found info. on watches and ship's bells here (http://www.navy.mil/navydata/questions/bells.html) and black_hound confirmed that it was the same in 1802. I love the internet!
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Date: 2005-12-18 03:13 pm (UTC)Re. the fic, whenever you have time is fine by me. Really - it won't kill me to have to exercise some patience! In fact it will probably be good for me. :) I'd rather you took your time and enjoyed the discussion!
As for "research", it was all done online. And I found a mention of the Birgu naval bakery while Googling, but needed two large and well known ones located near Plymouth and the mouth of the Thames, so couldn't fit it in, much as I would have liked to. I also checked a couple of words in the Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/), since I like to avoid obvious anachronisms where possible. The meaning of "waspish" as I used it surprisingly dates from 1566! And then I found info. on watches and ship's bells here (http://www.navy.mil/navydata/questions/bells.html) and