Comments on: #Bookreview – Cabbage and Semolina by Cathy Murray @spurwing_ #1950s #childhood #memoir https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/bookreview-cabbage-semolina-cathy-murray-spurwing_-1950s-childhood-memoir/ Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:00:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: Georgia Rose https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/bookreview-cabbage-semolina-cathy-murray-spurwing_-1950s-childhood-memoir/#comment-5674 Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:00:29 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=2071#comment-5674 In reply to Cathy Murray.

You’re welcome Cathy. I’m so sorry to hear you have been unwell and hope you make a swift return to full health soon. Best wishes.

]]> By: Cathy Murray https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/bookreview-cabbage-semolina-cathy-murray-spurwing_-1950s-childhood-memoir/#comment-5673 Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:45:32 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=2071#comment-5673 Thank you so much, Georgia, for this wonderful review. I’ve been poorly for several weeks and reading this today has really cheered me up.

]]> By: Georgia Rose https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/bookreview-cabbage-semolina-cathy-murray-spurwing_-1950s-childhood-memoir/#comment-5672 Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:25:23 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=2071#comment-5672 In reply to Wendy Percival.

I’m afraid I have not come across Pookie – although a rabbit with wings certainly sounds like fun!! It made me laugh too Wendy and was such an easy read. Thanks for adding your thoughts here, they are much appreciated 😀

]]> By: Wendy Percival https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/bookreview-cabbage-semolina-cathy-murray-spurwing_-1950s-childhood-memoir/#comment-5671 Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:48:08 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=2071#comment-5671 I loved reading Cabbage & Semolina! As I was born in 1958, it reflected much of my own childhood. It made me laugh, too. Cathy has a lovely easy style and a wry sense of humour.
I was very excited at one point when I read that, like me, one of Cathy’s favourite children’s books was Pookie, by Ivy Wallace. I’d never come across anyone before who’d even heard of Pookie! (For the uninitiated, he’s a rabbit with wings.) My own battered version of the first Pookie book was my mum’s and was published in the 1940s. Anyone else “met” Pookie?

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