Let’s see if a weekly diary works out to revive the blog. Currently located in Sagres, due to leave at the end of the month. Recently ditched FB and am working on the Two Snails blog. A new laptop, to share, arrived this week. Windows 11. Will I get the hang? Took the half-price subscription …
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December Reflectons 20: Best Book of 2020
If asked, I would shamefully have admitted to having read virtually nothing this year. I picked up a book a couple of nights ago and am thoroughly enjoying it. My tendency is always to believe that my latest book is the best that I have read in the year and this time I honestly believed …
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Handywoman (December Reflections 5)
Today’s December Reflections prompt is: Best Book of 2019 Without doubt, the best book that I read this year was The Handmaid’s Tale. There are few better books. However, this was a re-read before tackling The Testaments and I am not sure that re-reads are within the spirit of the prompt. It is worth commenting …
Tagged
Some time ago, I was tagged on Facebook by Liz Hassall aka Trundlebug of Mostly Knitting to list ten books that have stayed with me. Here they are.
Little Women and Many-hued Fairies
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread–and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness–
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Look What I found
Look what I found – What Liberty Ate – this magazine, something of this quality is free? Unfortunately, wp.com will not, so far as I can see, allow me to embed the magazine. I’ll just have to tell you that it is 138 pages, with lots of recipes and some gorgeous images. This is issue …