We have rethought the roof rack and called and asked them to skip that one, but go ahead with the moon roof. They have installed the heating for the seats, and that is good. We are told they MAY get the roof work done today.
We had a little worry about a post-factory moon roof, but they swear on a stack of Bibles it should work fine and will add, not detract, from future value of the car. Leaks are the worry. But having worked with aquariums and bulkhead gaskets, I just cannot see, outside of incompetence, WHY a roof insert should leak. It’s got to involve a gasket, and if competently done, should not be an issue. Granted it’s large and curved, still, if the ones from the factory don’t leak, the ones installed later shouldn’t, granted they tighten it properly. And it’s under a five-year warranty. So if it leaks—it’s their problem.
Anyway, it’s the roof rack they aren’t sure fits, and they might have to order another one, and it’s black, on a very pale car, so in the memory we’ve only used the one on the Subaru twice, we think we’d rather skip that one in the interest of prettiness.
And that may mean we get the car late this afternoon, maybe tomorrow.
As to which Marie, according to Wikipedia it was no less than the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia.
The biscuits were invented in London in 1874 when she married the Duke of Edinburgh.
A google image search shows dozens of different brands from different countries.
The interesting thing is that the biscuits are often used as ingredients in cake and dessert recipes.
Thanks, GreenWyvern, I learned something from that.
I’d always assumed it referred to Mary mother of Jesus, because I only heard that name for them in the Catholic south where there were lots of Mary-shrines and things, and not in the Protestant north. Add to that maybe some vague childish association with ‘Catholics get some kind of wafer or dry biscuit in their services’ – so a dry biscuit with the name Mary-biscuit in Virgin Mary country was automatically associated with the virgin Mary. I never even thought of looking it up, because my childish assumption had quite entrenched itself in my mind.
It just proves once again that assumptions can lead one completely astray, even if they seem logical at the time!
I also didn’t know that, Hanneke. I found it interesting to learn that marie biscuits are popular in places like India, Spain, Portugal and Egypt. I’m sure that in Catholic countries like Spain and Portugal, as well as the Catholic parts of the Netherlands, most people would associate the name with the Virgin Mary, and that must be a factor in its popularity.
The American word ‘cookie’ comes straight from Dutch, with the spelling Americanized. The literal meaning is, of course, ‘little cake’.