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This site is dedicated to my grandmother, who ran away from her Norwegian home in 1915 and arrived in England with nothing but a trunk full of books

  • A Historical Who-Dunnit!

      Way back in the summer when I was staying in Plymouth to kitten sit for my Elder Daughter I was intrigued by the sight of piles of books stacked on a table in Waterstones, surrounded by a little crowd of people, so I pushed my through to discover what was so interesting (OK, I…

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    January 7, 2015
    Giordano Bruno, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Plymouth, Sir Francis Drake, SJ Parris, Treason
  • Short Story Sunday – on Monday!

    ‘There’s a man,’ Alice said. ‘She’s with a man.’ She scrubbed the bus window with a bunched-up brown glove. May sat down heavily beside her, still probing a blasted peppermint. She leaned forward, her menthol breath ruining all Alice’s work on the window. The duo are outraged because this is a tour for Retired Ladies,…

    chrisharding53

    January 5, 2015
    Clare Boylan, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Some Retired Ladies on a Tour
  • New Year, Resolutions and an Arthurian Sword

    It’s New Year’s Day… And here is the Wart, on New Year’s Day, pulling the Sword from the Stone in the Disney cartoon of the same name. The film was based on TH White’s The Once and Future King, Happy New Year Everyone! Since people seem to be making resolutions and planning for 2015 I feel as if…

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    January 1, 2015
    books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, New Year, Radio 4, resolutions, The Once and Future Kind
  • Mushrooms Take Two…

    OK people, today there are two posts –you’ve got a poem and a review! But they are linked, honestly. For some reason I woke up thinking of today’s short story, Slaves to the Mushroom, (see previous post) and the final sentence which kept niggling away in my brain, even though I didn’t like the story.…

    chrisharding53

    December 28, 2014
    Mushrooms, Sylvia Plath
  • Short Story Sunday: Slaves to the Mushroom

    It’s Sunday again (it seems to come around very quickly!), so it’s time for a Short Story, and I’ve reached Tale Number Two in The Penguin Book of Modern Women’s Short Stories – Slaves to the Mushroom, by Shena MacKay. I didn’t really like this one, largely, I think, because I couldn’t warm to the…

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    December 28, 2014
    http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Shena MacKay, The Penguin Book of Modern Women’s SHort Stories. mushrooms
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