Answers to the Grand Birthday Game!

First, a big thank you to all of you for playing and also for all the lovely birthday wishes this past week! :)

And now without more ado, here are....

The Game Answers

1. Darcy or Bingley?

Answer: Éowyn A, Heidi B

2. Amazing mountains (and casting)…or amazing staging (and casting)—i.e. favorite Sound of Music?

Answer: Éowyn A, Heidi B

3. Romance out west…(super sweet romance).
In other words, our favorite Zane Grey. :)

Answer: Éowyn A, Heidi B

4. A hairstyle we each dream of:

Answer: Heidi A, Éowyn B

5. A Lizzy dress: sea-foam green under sheer…or the orange of autumn leaves? 

Answer: Heidi A, Éowyn B

6. A favorite Cinderella. We actually (to varying degrees) both like both of these, but—you know—if we were absolutely, positively forced to choose.

Answer: Heidi A (The Slipper and the Rose with Richard Chamberlain) and Éowyn B (First Love with Deanna Durbin)

7. Which of these highly loved books ends up on our respective bedside pile oftenest:

Answer: Heidi A, Éowyn B

8. A favorite period drama ending. Just because…

Answer: Éowyn A, Heidi B

9. Favorite Scottish adventure film? (A field of very strong opinion, indeed.) 

Answer: Heidi A (Rob Roy with Richard Todd), Éowyn B (Kidnapped with Peter Finch)

10. Favorite nursing series.

Answer: Éowyn A, Heidi B

11. Apart from somewhere we’d both like to go (somewhere with miles and miles of turquoise and azure blue water—which wouldn’t exactly give us an A or B answer) two other overseas adventures: an African safari or riding over the Argentinean mountains?

Answer: Heidi A, Éowyn B

12. Singer-songwriters:

Answer: Éowyn A, Heidi B

13. We both think this salad looks simply magnificent, but the question is for which enthralling field of study we each find most fascinating—nutrition or dinosaur tracks.

Answer: Éowyn A, Heidi B

14. Our favorite classic western? And you don’t have to know the names, just A or B. (We really can’t tell you the names, ‘cause…yes, well…you get the idea.)

Answer: Heidi A (Stagecoach with John Wayne), Éowyn B (High Noon with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly)

15. And…(since we’re both writing westerns), whose is set in which place? 

Answer: Éowyn A, Heidi B

And your scores!

Emma: 140

Naomi: 120

Dani: 110

Natalie: 110

Sarah: 110

Olivia: 90

Hamlette: 80

Again, thank you so much for playing everyone! We're glad you enjoyed it!

The Grand Birthday Game!

Having blogs as sisters is one of the best (and occasionally most challenging!) bits of all this wonderful bloggy business and (seeing as how our real-life birthdays fall exactly one week apart) we wanted to share the birthday fun with all of you dear friends! So (in the midst of our very full week ;)) comes also the time for our Very First Game Ever! 

Following are fifteen A/B questions with Heidi as ‘A’ and Éowyn as ‘B’ (or vice versa) and your exciting job is to guess which is which. We’re posting the identical questions on both our blogs (Éowyn’s is here), so if you follow both of us, feel free to leave your answers in either place. (Or you can leave them in both and we’ll keep your highest score. ;))

We’re turning on comment moderation until the answers are officially posted next week, and also, when commenting with your answers you can just use one or other name and we’ll know that the other person is either A or B. Each answer is worth 10 points with a total of 150 points that can be earned.

Now do have fun everyone and we hope lots of you play!! :)

The Game

1. Darcy or Bingley?

2. Amazing mountains (and casting)…or amazing staging (and casting)—i.e. favorite Sound of Music?

3. Romance out west…(super sweet romance).

In other words, our favorite Zane Grey. :)

4. A hairstyle we each dream of:

5. A Lizzy dress: sea-foam green under sheer…or the orange of autumn leaves? 

6. A favorite Cinderella. We actually (to varying degrees) both like both of these, but—you know—if we were absolutely, positively forced to choose.

7. Which of these highly loved books ends up on our respective bedside pile oftenest:

8. A favorite period drama ending. Just because…

9. Favorite Scottish adventure film? (A field of very strong opinion, indeed.) 

10. Favorite nursing series.

11. Apart from somewhere we’d both like to go (somewhere with miles and miles of turquoise and azure blue water—which wouldn’t exactly give us an A or B answer) two other overseas adventures: an African safari or riding over the Argentinean mountains?

12. Singer-songwriters:

13. We both think this salad looks simply magnificent, but the question is for which enthralling field of study we each find most fascinating—nutrition or dinosaur tracks.

14. Our favorite classic western? And you don’t have to know the names, just A or B. (We really can’t tell you the names, ‘cause…yes, well…you get the idea.)

15. And…(since we’re both writing westerns), whose is set in which place?

We hope you all had fun and can’t wait to see your answers! :)

Movie Review ~ Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953) with Richard Todd

If you know me at all closely, chances are you know that (un-grownup-ish as it is) when I get really, really, really excited I squeal–and generally a dance of some sort ensues. In this case it was the polka.

I promise no spoilers, but here are a few teasers. It’s in the highlands of Scotland. And it’s in the early 1700’s. And there are bonnets and tartans everywhere. And the hero is splendid–a hero with just grievances and personal flaws to face.

And he has a beard.

And–unbelievably–he could almost–almost–(almost so nearly it hardly matters)–be Captain Bryant. Who’d have thought it???!!! :-)

We first saw Richard Todd in The Adventures of Robin Hood (which is little known but quite good) and I–rather obviously–really like his rendition of Rob Roy MacGregor.

Some other familiar faces are: Glynis Johns (Mrs. Banks in Mary Poppins), James Robertson Justice (Little John in the Richard Todd Adventures of Robin Hood), and Archie Duncan (Little John in the b/w Robin Hood tv series with Richard Greene). (And yes, I did get all those Richard’s and Robin’s and Little John’s straight. ;-))

The acting was very good and as far as content, I would say it fits into the same class as, for instance, Swiss Family Robinson. (Later edit: the intensity is a little different than SFR and the warfare is ongoing throughout the entire film, with quite a few hand-to-hand fighting shots, but I consider it family friendly.)

Of the ending, I can think of about four words in summary–any one of which has gunpowder potential to give it away. But I do want to give you an idea, so here they are (you can tell me how they sound): honor, pride, trust, and humility. I won’t tell any more, but suffice to say, it’s good–really, really, really good. Shall I squeal??? :-)

(Oh, and a quick note. It's quite distinct from Sir Walter Scott’s tale of the same name which is an entirely different story. :-))