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• Teatime Treats!

  Teatime treats! Help yourself to a cake or biscuit people! And you needn’t worry about the calorie count as these little morsels are certainly not fattening – because they’re made from wool. I was so delighted with the Blooms and Bunnies I produced for Easter I thought I would try and make something each month…

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  May 25, 2013

  biscuits, craft, crochet, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Saturday Snapshot

• Library Briefs

  I’ve been particularly well organised with my last library haul – I surprise myself sometimes! I’ve read all four of them, and resisted the temptation to go in and get more every time I passed the building, and kept them altogether on a shelf, and not lost them, or forgotten them, and not kept them…

  chrisharding53

  May 23, 2013

  A Red Herring Without Mustard, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Jeanette Winterson, Katie Fforde, library, Linda Grant, Recipe for Love, The Daylight Gate, The Thoughtful Dresser

• Let’s Hear it for Older Women (The Winds of Heaven)

  I’m still with Persephone, but today’s thoughts are about a novel rather than a short story. I’ve been reading The Winds of Heaven, by Monica Dickens, which meets my current craving for happy endings. But don’t get the idea this is fluffy, because it’s not. Dickens highlights the difficulties faced by an older woman, her…

  chrisharding53

  May 21, 2013

  daughters, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Jane Austen, marriage, Monica Dickens, mothers, older women, The Winds of Heaven

• Short Story Sunday

  I have here a copy of The Persephone Book of Short Stories which I’ve been reading very slowly and haven’t yet finished, but now I’ve moved my Mother into her new home – a snug and comfy little ‘sheltered’ flat, close to the town centre, so she can get out and about again and be…

  chrisharding53

  May 19, 2013

  From A to Z, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Persephone, Short Stories, short story Sunday, Susan Glaspell, The Persephone Book of Short Stories

• A Birthday Treat in Oxford

  It was my my birthday this week, and my wonderful daughters celebrated by treating me to a surprise day out in Oxford, because I’d always wanted to there. They arranged it all for last Saturday, a few days before the birthday, so my Elder Daughter could get back from Devon, and they swore the Man…

  chrisharding53

  May 11, 2013

  afternoon tea, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Oxford