A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~A.A. Milne
As some of you may already know, I grew up with a very English, maternal grandmother and, therefore, a mother who was quite enamored with her heritage. Whenever I became ill, I was cautiously [...]
I’ve found I share my birthday with some interesting people:
1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)1765 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)1805 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)1900 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)1907 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)1907 – [...]
Since my eldest is studying the Middle Ages this year, I thought this might be a fun test to take. Obviously, all those years of Catholic school and yearning to be a nun must have had some affect on me.
The Prioress
You are a moral person and are also highly intellectual. You like your solitude but [...]
If anyone has been wondering where I have been off to for the past week and a half, I am here to tell you. We have been having our kitchen redone. This has been a project that has been developing over quite some time, but I was totally unprepared for just how displaced I would [...]
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