We have been living under a cloud of ice fog for several days now. The air is still and very cold. Each day the covering of ice crystals grows thicker like minute trees of frost growing everywhere making even the most mundane objects seem quite magical. The World sparkles. Chain link fences look as if they've been coated in crystal..soon the fog will lift,or the temperature rise or a breeze begin and it will all disappear but yet at the moment it is quite beautiful.
Stars!
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It's my own little indoor meteor shower, only crocheted. I'm sure it's not the first example you've come across in blogdom. I took the basic instructions fro...
More Library Loot
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These are the library books (and one DVD) that I didn't get to pick up during last week's snowstorm. I finally got them, though, and I've added them to my gr...
Friday 14 December 1666
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Up, and very well again of my pain in my back, it having been nothing but
cold. By coach to White Hall, seeing many smokes of the fire by the way yet,
an...
day 14: a visit to santa
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From Mrs B's archives, a first visit to Santa at Wickhams of Whitechapel, a
small department store with grand aspirations. My mum tells me the matching
coa...
Countdown to Christmas
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Only four more working days to go and then the level of blogging really should increase - or more accurately, the point at which I no longer have a valid exc...
Hibernating
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Yesterday was sunny and rather cold, but it didn't last — the cloudy weather
is back. But it has been snowing and it isn't as gray as it has been up till ...
Another review of Regency Cheshire
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Jane Austen's World has just posted a lovely review of Regency Cheshire .
Vic's blog is a really entertaining read, and comes highly recommended if
you are...
Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murder by Hazel Holt
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59. Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murder - fourth in the Mrs. Malory series
by Hazel Holt
mystery, 1993
finished, 12/10/09
In this Mrs. Malory book, a...
A silent recital
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I've lost my voice. I got very chilled on the journey home from Bristol last
week when the train broke down, making me miss my connection and I had to
wait...
Art History Reading Challenge(s)
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I’m wrapping up Sarah’s Art History Reading Challenge for this year, and am
going to go right ahead and sign up for it again. This turned out to be one
of ...
The wishing song of falling stars.
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Even though the sky is a sea of clouds with islands of stars clear between,
even though the beam from Strumble Head lighthouse sweeps a warning for
miles a...
Sunshine and Shadow
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We finally got our (short) walk in the next valley today as we had to go
over there with our son and his friend (off swimming at the complex). We
parked up...
twee acorns
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pattern: 'wee twee tiny acorn tutorial', by pam of flintknits. yarn: wee, twee bits of Harrisville Shetland 2-ply, probably the oldest yarn in my stash. need...
Am I the only person
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who finds the self service checkouts springing up everywhere unbelievably
irritating? Having decided that £40 was a bit much to spend on a Christmas
tree, ...
Three short reviews
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Rather busy at the moment still. I've been reading but not reviewing much
and am three books behind so it's time for another batch of quickish
reviews. Fir...
Digging deep to make lemonade
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I've thought long and hard about writing this post, whether indeed I should even be thinking of sharing any of what's been happening in this place that was a...
Fancy a Bit?
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So far in my life I’ve lived in 4 different seaside towns so you might think
I could be well qualified to share my love of the ‘Seaside Pier’ with you.
The...
Marigold in Godmother's house
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Marigold in Godmothers house by Joyce Lankester Brisley
A lovely and magical tale
by the author of the Milly Molly Mandy Stories
from Wiki...
"Milly-Molly-...
NEWS: PG Tips want to say thanks
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PG tips is scouring the nation for people who have made outstanding
contributions to the world of tea drinking. Whether you have served PG tips
for decades...
1 year ago
My Favourite reads
Two Imposters and Tinker by Dorothea Conyers
Three Men in Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Sick Heart River by John Buchan
Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Persuasion by Jane Austen
John MacNab by John Buchan
Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy
Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnhim
from an old gravestone
If you hold your nose to the Grindstone and you leave it there long enough, Then soon you'll say there's no such things as brooks that babble and birds that sing, these three will all your world compose, just you, the stone and your poor old nose.
(from memory so may not be word perfect)
Quote from Dr Johnson
Adversity; Diligence; Equanimity; Misfortune; Patience; Perseverance "Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of nature, are calls to labour and diligence. When we feel any pressure of distress, we are not to conclude that we can only obey the will of Heaven by languishing under it, any more than when we perceive the pain of thirst, we are to imagine that water is prohibited." Johnson: Rambler #32 (July 7, 1750)
About Me
Val
Well actually the photo is the furry dog resting beside Eklutna lake. I live in Alaska, a wild and beautiful part of North America. I was born in Shropshire England, also a beautiful place although in quite different ways.
