Alison Bard, Alison Bard Society, Alison Bard Fan Club.
Alison Bard is the brilliant sister of world famous writers Betty MacDonald and Mary Bard.
Wolfgang Hampel, author of Betty MacDonald and Ma and Pa Kettle biography interviewed Alison Bard Burnett.
Don't miss these very witty interviews with born humorist Alison Bard Burnett who shares her golden laughter with Betty MacDonald Fans from all over the world.
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Alison Bard Burnett, Betty MacDonald in Hollywood and twilight of the chancellor
Betty MacDonald's sister Alison Bard Burnett
Betty MacDonald's mother Sydney with grandchild Alison Beck
We got very important info regarding the original 'The Egg and I' and the way Betty MacDonald described her first husband Robert Eugene Heskett and their neighbours.
Many
Betty MacDonald fan club fans from all over the world are so delighted
that their beloved Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli is
back.
They enjoy the new very funny and exciting Mr. Tigerli adventure very much.
Thanks a million dearest Letizia Mancino, Mary Holmes and Mr. Tigerli for sharing the new golden Mr. Tigerli treasure!
We adore you so much!
Betty
MacDonald fan club fans who are devoted Mr. Tigerli fans won't have any
difficulties to answer the new Betty MacDonald fan club contest
question.
If you can answer this question you might be our winner of new Betty MacDonald fan club Mr. Tigerli contest.
Maybe Mr. Tigerli is going to take part at the next ESC and is singing a duet with a very beautiful lady.
Who is the very beautiful lady?
New Deadline: September 30, 2016 That's my favourite quote by Betty MacDonald. We got so many mails. Thank you so much for sending your favourite Betty MacDonald quote. We look forward to read your No 1 and there are so many wonderful ones by beloved Betty MacDonald. We are working on a new Betty MacDonald biography and documentary with many brilliant colour photos.
If
you'd like to share your colour photos of Betty MacDonald and her
family we can offer you several new Betty MacDonald fan club items as a
special Betty MacDonald fan club gift.
Thank you so much in advance for your support. Thank
you so much for sending us the most wonderful quotes by Betty
MacDonald. There are many more great ones which are not mentioned in the
list. We are delighted. Send us your favourite Betty MacDonald quote, please. You can find some of Betty MacDonald's most popular quotes below. In case you can't find your favourite Betty MacDonald quote in it, send us yours, please. New Deadline: September 30, 2016
Don't miss it, please. You can win several new Betty MacDonald fan club items. Betty MacDonald fan club organizer Linde Lund posted on Facebook about a possible Betty MacDonald fan club meeting on Betty MacDonald's magical Vashon Island. ( see info at the end of this posting ) August will be a very exciting month for many Betty MacDonald fan club fans from all over the world. We are going to present Betty MacDonald fan club book cover winner. Betty MacDonald fan club letter research team got some very interesting letters and documents some days ago. If
you'd like to share some of your letters by Betty MacDonald, Mary Bard
Jensen and other family members join our Betty MacDonald fan club letter
research team, please. Betty MacDonald fan club letter research team got some very important letters by Betty MacDonald, Mary Bard Jensen and other family members. Betty MacDonald, her sister Mary Bard Jensen and the other family members wrote very witty and interesting letters. We are going to present some of best ones at Betty MacDonald fan club Olympics 2016 event entitled ' The pen and I '. We
got several new outstanding letters from Betty MacDonald fan club fans
whose relatives had been in contact with Betty MacDonald and other
family members. Thank you so much for your outstanding support. Betty
MacDonald fan club event team is very happy to hear from you and they
got some really great ideas for the next International event. Thanks a lot!
Angela Merkel
has suffered a sobering defeat in regional elections in her
constituency of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with her Christian Democratic
Union (CDU) coming third behind the Social Democrats (SPD) and the
rightwing populists Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Projections late on Sunday night saw the centre-left SPD on 30.5%,
the anti-immigration AfD on 20.9%, and the chancellor’s centre-right CDU
suffering its all-time lowest result in the eastern state, on 19%.
Earlier this year, the CDU had looked like the party most likely to be
tasked with forming the next government in the state. For the past 10 years, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has been governed in a
“grand coalition” between the SPD and CDU, mirroring the current power
structure at federal level. But an increasingly divisive debate over the
consequences of the German government’s strategy during the refugee crisis has spurred support for AfD
– fronted in the state by Leif-Erik Holm, a radio presenter based in
Berlin’s multicultural Prenzlauer Berg district – even though the state
has been largely insulated from the refugee crisis. Though the result will not have a direct impact on the workings of
the German government, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern only has a population
of 1.6 million, it has a symbolic value, with regional elections in
Berlin on 18 September and a general election coming up next year.
Merkel, in power since 2005, has yet to confirm whether she will run for
a fourth term in 2017.While the Social Democrats emerged as the largest party on the night
and the results for the Christian Democrats were particularly
humiliating, leftwing parties in the state also suffered considerable
losses. The Left party was projected to have won 13.2%, down from 18.4%
five years ago, while the pro-environment Greens seemed set to win 4.9%,
down from 8.7%. The far-right National Democratic party (NPD), which
has been represented in the state parliament for the last 10 years, fell
beneath the 5% threshold for the first time in a decade, on 3.1%. AfD, by contrast, continued a remarkable streak of electoral
victories at regional level. Three years after being founded on an
anti-euro ticket in 2013, it is now represented in nine state
parliaments. Its co-leader, Frauke Petry,
described Sunday’s result as a blow to Angela Merkel. “Now it is our
responsibility to make politics for the people. The people no longer
trust the old establishment parties to do so,” Petry said. On Sunday night, CDU candidate Lorenz Caffier said: “There was only
one subject during the campaign, and that subject was the refugee
policy. The refugee question was decisive.” The conservative politician
ruled out a resignation and said he hoped his party would be able to
continue to form the state’s coalition government. Peter Tauber, the CDU’s general secretary, described the outcome as
“a bitter result, a new experience”. “We are all responsible for this,”
Tauber said. “It was noticeable that the refugee subject was very
present. Of course many people are looking at Angela Merkel.”
The state election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern comes a year to the day
after Merkel’s government accepted thousands of refugees stranded at
Budapest train station – the consequences of which have been analysed
across the German media in the past fortnight. In May, a pig’s head
carrying an insulting message was left outside Merkel’s constituency
office in the Baltic Sea town of Stralsund, where she has won a direct
mandate since 1990. AfD candidate Holm spoke of a proud result for a young party. “The
icing on the cake is that we have left Merkel’s CDU behind us,” he said.
“Maybe that is the beginning of the end of Merkel’s time as
chancellor.” Gero
Neugebauer, a political scientist at Berlin’s Free University, sounded a
similar warning for Merkel. “People will see this as the start of the
‘Kanzlerdämmerung’ [twilight of the chancellor],” he said. “If a lot of
CDU members start seeing this defeat as Merkel’s fault, and members of
parliament start seeing her as a danger for the party and their own
jobs, the whole situation could escalate out of control.” The northernmost of the five former East German states that joined
with the West German federal republic in 1990, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
has in the past been troubled by industrial decline and a dwindling
population but last year registered the lowest unemployment rate and
highest GDP since reunification. An electoral map
of Sunday’s election shows a state split between an SPD-voting west,
where incomes are higher due to its proximity to affluent Hamburg, and
the east, where many electoral districts went to the AfD. In part due to its economic weakness and low population density, the
region was assigned fewer refugees than all but two of Germany’s 16
other Länder; 23,080 asylum seekers were registered in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in 2015, roughly a quarter of those assigned to
similarly sized Hesse. Only 3.7% of the state’s population is of
non-German background, one of the lowest rates in the country. In the past year, the state has registered no high-profile criminal
incidents, such as terrorist attacks or rape, carried out by asylum
seekers, and a decline in theft and violent crime. Police in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern recorded seven incidents of attempted arson at
refugee shelters in 2015. A shooting rampage in Munich and two attacks with an Islamist motive in regional towns in Bavaria in July have fostered a national debate about internal security. Caffier was one of the politicians behind a call for a ban on the full face veil in Germany last month.
Bernd Kunzewe will be there, one year vita magica, congratulations Wolfgang Hampel and Rita Kocher.
Linde LundDearst
Rita Kocher und Wolfgang Hampel Congratulations!!!! Happy Birthday Vita
Magica and all the best for the future! All our love and best wishes
from Linde, Astrid and Lund family
Mr.
Tigerli in China Copyright 2016 by Letizia Mancinotranslation by Mary HolmesAll rights reserved
Yes Betty, either or it seems he wanted to fly only with
Singapore Airways.
Boeing or Airbus, it’s just the same
isn’t it? Aren’t they both just fat birds with 500 passengers?
Yes, but Singapore Airlines has the
most beautiful airhostesses: delicate, fine, graceful… Mr. Tigerli had looked forward to the flight
so much!
So the little man was disappointed?
You just can’t imagine how disappointed
he was.
But thank God one of the hostesses was a
pretty Chinese girl. Mr. Tigerli purred loudly but she didn’t hear him because
the purring of the Airbus 380 was even louder.
The poor cat!
You’ve said it Betty. Mr. Tigerli was
in a very bad mood and asked me for a loud speaker.
I’m sure you can get one in 1st
Class.
“”Russian Girl” had even heard you over
the roar of the Niagara Falls” I said to Mr. Tigerli. “You are a very
unfaithful cat. You wanted to get to know Asiatic girls. That’s how it is when
one leaves one’s first love”.
And what did he say to that?
“Men are hunters” was his answer.
Yes, my dear cat, a mouse hunter. And
what else did he say?
Not another word. He behaved as if he
hadn’t heard me.
The Airbus is very loud.
I told him shortly “Don’t trouble
yourself about “Chinese Girl”. There will be enough even prettier girls in
China. Wait till we land in Guilin”.
Did he understand you?
Naturally Mr. Tigerli understood me
immediately. Yes, sweetheart, don’t worry. They will find you something sweet
to eat.
And he?
He was so happy.
No problem going through the immigration
control?
Naturally! Lots of problems. How could I explain to
customs that the cat had come as a tourist to China to buy shoes?
Fur in exchange for shoes…
Don’t be so cynical Betty!
Cat meat in exchange for shoes?
I said to the officials. He isn’t a cat, he is Casanova.
Betty MacDonald Fan Club, founded by Wolfgang Hampel, has members in 40 countries.
Wolfgang Hampel, author of Betty MacDonald biography interviewed Betty MacDonald's family and friends. His Interviews have been published on CD and DVD by Betty MacDonald Fan Club. If you are interested in the Betty MacDonald Biography or the Betty MacDonald Interviews send us a mail, please.
Several original Interviews with Betty MacDonald are available.
We are also organizing international Betty MacDonald Fan Club Events for example, Betty MacDonald Fan Club Eurovision Song Contest Meetings in Oslo and Düsseldorf, Royal Wedding Betty MacDonald Fan Club Event in Stockholm and Betty MacDonald Fan Club Fifa Worldcup Conferences in South Africa and Germany.
Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honour Members are Monica Sone, author of Nisei Daughter and described as Kimi in Betty MacDonald's The Plague and I, Betty MacDonald's nephew, artist and writer Darsie Beck, Betty MacDonald fans and beloved authors and artists Gwen Grant, Letizia Mancino, Perry Woodfin, Traci Tyne Hilton, Tatjana Geßler, music producer Bernd Kunze, musician Thomas Bödigheimer, translater Mary Holmes and Mr. Tigerli.
