Did you ever have one of those books of quotations? Ones where you look up a quotation for the moment on whatever topic seems important. We had one. One of my grannies passed hers on to me. But probably my favourite source is Lord Peter Wimsey, gentleman detective. Wimsey was the creation of Dorothy L. …
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There have been a few ups and downs here recently, mainly in the mummy plays nurse department. In the space of less than a week, two separate days off school, and a trip to A&E. My basis for operating is feeling a little shaky. I need a point of reference when life is turned upside …
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In a previous working life, I inhabited one main world for almost a decade. I knew how the thinking about it worked, how to make decisions (or at least some principles for trying). Then I jumped ship. And now I get to be a social anthropologist of websites. These days, what I end up writing …
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When I started planning these posts, I had a few that were already good to go. The one about sandwich eating, for example. But over the course of writing this month, I realise how much books become a way that you enter into a whole range of experiences and understandings. Including of other cultures. When …
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I spent a lot of the last couple of months reading. I found a blog or two I liked, and through those, found more. And through these connections, I found websites of others who love both reading and writing. One post struck a chord: about Louisa May Alcott, writer of Little Women. Little Women is …
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