Tag: Persephone

• Time To Tidy The Shelves…

  LibraryThing and Viragoing for August has gone to my head I think. Have started trying to tidy bookshelves – not something I attempt all that often! Now have two rows of Viragos and Persephones, which may not look a lot, but they’re double stacked, so there’s a complete row of green Viragos behind the grey…

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  August 13, 2015

  books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Persephone, shelves, tidying

• 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

• Short Story Sunday: A Flawed Treasure and a Good Mother

  The Exile, by Betty Miller, is a little odd, and I didn’t really enjoy it, but it was interesting. Here we have the Moores, Edmund and Louis, and his young brother Arthur. They are middle class and well-off, leading comfortable, cosy lives but are made uneasy by the appearance of their new servant. Russian Irina…

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  September 1, 2013

  Betty Miller, Children, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Persephone, short story Sunday

• A ‘Spendthrift’s Spreading’ of Marmalade!

  Yay! The Great British Bake-Off is back, and promises to be every bit as good as the last series… And the One before that… And the one before that. Consequently, I am baking mode, and what better time to take a look at a cookbook. So here are my thoughts on a Persephone kitchen classic,…

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  August 21, 2013

  1920s, agnes jekyll, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Kitchen Essays, Persephone, recipes

• Books by Post!

  Woo hoo! Every day this week the postman has delivered a book (or books), thanks to my lovely Mother, who gave me some money when I was staying with her last week, and told me to treat myself – so I bought novels which, hopefully, will be a treat to read, and I shall have…

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  June 19, 2013

  Book buying, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, new books, Persephone, used books