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Cupcake heaven – stitched and baked!
And now for something completely different. Cup cakes! I have been making edible and non-edible varieties. The ones intended for consumption came courtesy of a recipe in The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days: Recipes to make every day special, by Tarek Malouf, which I came across when I visited a friend who had been given a…
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Robinson Crusoe: dull and unlikable?
Well, I finally finished Robinson Crusoe, and am the first to admit it took me quite a time, partly because I got side-tracked by other books, partly because I found some bits more than a little tedious, and partly because on several occasions I was so exasperated I switched the Kindle off – had I…
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Rediscovering Maigret
Notre Dame, which has nothing to with the story, but last timeI went to Paris we ate lunch in a cafe near Shakespeae and Companyand this was the view, and it makes me happy to look at it. Well, here I am, still in Paris, in spirit, if not in body – but it’s not…
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Paris with a Dashing Dish
Ernest, Hadley, and Bumby in Austria, in 1926, Ernest Hemingway must, I think, have been a bit of a sod. Incredibly charismatic, yes. Talented, yes. But a sod, nevertheless. I base this opinion upon ‘The Paris Wife’, a novel in which author Paula McLain gives voice to Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson, with whom he lived…
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