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• Meeting the Moomins…

  One grey morning the first snow began to fall in the Valley of the Moomins. It fell softly and quietly, and in a few hours everything was white. Moomintroll stood on his doorstep and watched the world nestle beneath its winter blanket. ‘Tonight,’ he thought, ‘We shall settle down for our long winter’s sleep.’ (All…

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  January 10, 2014

  Finn Family Moomintroll, Finnish writers, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Tove Jansson

• Short Story Sunday: Treachery, Freedom, and Beauty!

  This gorgeous screen printed furnishing fabricis reproduced on the back endpaper of The Persephone Book of Short Stories. It’s called Cote d’Azure,and was designed by Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell for Fischbacher in 1983. Oops! I forgot the title! And the intro! Sorry  – I will amend it now. Since this is Sunday, I have posted a Short…

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  January 5, 2014

  Frances Towers, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Margaret Bonham, Mollie Panter-Downes, The Persephone Book of Short Stories

• Mother and Child Reunion

  It’s been a while since I’ve posted my thoughts on any tales from The Persephone Book of Short Stories, but I certainly haven’t forgotten them. So here’s are two for this week’s Short Story Sunday. You’ll find there is a kind of loose theme, or link, in that both today’s tales explore the failing relationship…

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  November 17, 2013

  Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Berridge, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Subject for a Sermon, The Persephone Book of Short Stories, Wednesday

• Honey, Prisoners – and a King’s Speech!

  During the war honey was popular, because sugar wasrationed. But Vere doesn’t tell us if her sweet gift was madeby a local beekeeper, or was a mass produced jar. Feel much better this week. Very hot. A jar of honey has been given me. Very pleasant to receive. Able to get one whole pound of…

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  November 13, 2013

  Christmas, honey, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, King’s speech, Persephone, prisoner in the tower. cat food, Vere Hodgson, WW2

• Shooting Pheasants…

  Well, despite my best endeavours, I’ve been busy over the last week or so (Oxfam bits and pieces, and an unexpected visit from my Younger Daughter), so I’ve not been looking at anyone else’s posts, or checking my own, and consequently missed seeing that I had been selected by Jane and Briar, over at Fleur…

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  November 11, 2013

  animal rights, First World War, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, The shooting Party