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Minced Pyes
I love reading old recipes – or receipts as they were once called – so here’s a seasonal one to celebrate Day Four of the Advent Bookfest. It’s from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened, which was published in the 17th century and also includes wonderful instructions for making alcoholic drinks like metheglin,…
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Carols and Mulled Ale
For Day Three of the Advent Bookfest I couldn’t resist the carol singing field-mice in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. Ratty and Mole are returning to River Bank after Badger has rescued them from the Wild Wood, when Mole hears his old home calling him, so they head there instead. They hear scuffling…
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Stitching a Picture of the Past
Day Two in my Advent Bookfest reminds me of my own childhood although, I hasten to add, I am younger than the author. At the end of December 1999 Jean Baggott decided to mark the Millennium by celebrating ‘the girl on the wall’ – the young girl she was once was. Reflecting on a photo…
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Be Nice to your Turkeys this Christmas…
It’s December and Christmas is on the way, so I’ve decided to celebrate with an Advent Bookfest, which will include poems, readings, diary entries, a bit of general information about the season, the odd recipe or two and, perhaps, some reviews! First off is Benjamin Zephaniah’s Talking Turkeys!, which is one of my favourite poems…
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Light, Frothy, and very Enjoyable!
Shy, well-read Laura Horsley faces unemployment when the book shop she works in closes down, but she is persuaded to help run a literary festival at a stately home in the country and is expected to entice famously reclusive Irish author Dermot Flynn out of his self-imposed isolation to attend the event. There you have…
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