According to Wikipedia, the phrase is now used as a state of mind required of the reader. And, who am I to judge? Why should these characters all behave in a way that does not embarrass me? Anyway, I d.

Thursday, 14 May 2015. Today is the feast of the Ascension. Last year I posted extracts from an Old English poem, Christ II. Which has a take on the Ascension story which is so beautiful and astonishing that I just have to link to it again. Nu is þon gelicost, swa we on laguflode. Ofer cald wæter ceolum liðan. Geond sidne sæ, sundhengestum,.

8230;thoughts, memories, and ideas from a lifetime of reading. I enjoyed both very much. First published as Requiem for a Wren. It was a story of love and loss, and of a generation shaped by World War II. For our generation, the war years were the best times of our lives, not because.

Books, Movies, Cats and other Treasures. Literature and War Readalong 2011. Literature and War Readalong 2012. Literature and War Readalong 2013. Literature and War Readalong 2014. Literature and War Readalong 2015. I want to pick up.

Please join me over there for more of the same and a little bit of different. Wednesday, 7 March 2012. The Shrewsbury Book, 15th Century. I have always loved manuscripts, particularly those with more gold on them than is sensible. Royal Manuscript exhibition at the British Library. Choosing to avoid using common assault I. I fell in love with the detail, from the animals and ivy in.

Turns out this lucre kept me fascinated for the entire cross country flight. I barely looked up when the food was served. Just imagine dear readers, once even coach passengers got served a meal on cross country plane trips.

The solar eclipse of March 20th left us standing in a hybrid light. As if Space had closed in, to become more of itself vast, absolute, the only act on stage; a conjuror steadily veiling the comfort of the apparent, better to reveal an alternative reality.

In which she reads books, often cooks, and sometimes does embroidery. Thursday, May 6, 2010. The bookishness around here has been kind of lacking lately due to lack of time, food poisoning, and dull books. Thursday, April 29, 2010.

Every possibility of good was before me, and the first of blessings secured .

Books - trees and gardens - wildlife - ideas. Break, break, break.