Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. It’s 1861, and as the Prince Consort is dying, Queen Victoria summons a lawyer named Patrick Fitzgerald to Windsor. Within hours, the Prince Consort is dead, Fitzgerald and his ward Georgiana are run off the road in their carriage, nearly killing Georgiana, and his chambers are ransacked. It […]
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. The Tenth Gift is one of those books that happens in parallel storylines – one in the present, where someone has found something that links to the storyline in the past. In the case of this book, Julia has just been dumped by her long-time lover (who happens
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So, in the last big rain storm, the clematis trellis managed to detach itself from the supports. (I’m still not entirely sure how – two of the four pieces of twine were still intact – on the trellis at least). Since it was threatening to smush half of my Swiss chard, I decided to cut
Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. At the end of the Blood Ties books, for massively spoilery reasons, the vampire Henry Fitzroy had to relocate from Toronto to Vancouver. Needing someone he trusted to be his help during the day, he brought with him Tony Foster, the street kid that had helped Vickie and
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This is approximately twenty pounds of tomatoes (one from the CSA, one from the Farmer’s Market): The following survived the initial wash and cutting off of bad spots: The following did not: After much mashing and boiling: I managed to cover my counter with enough bowls and other equipment to run the results through a
I’ve had a request for socks (little known secret: now that I’ve figured out I’m pretty much a process knitter, as long as it’s not in cashmere, I will probably find a way to fit any knitting requests into my schedule…), so I’ve cast something on to keep me busy until my trip to NYC
Pattern: Argyle Purl Scarf by Jenna NunziatoYarn: Classic Elite RenaissanceNeedles: Size 9 circs This year’s Red Scarf Project scarf is done! I really enjoyed this pattern – it’s not too hard, but the pattern repeat is long enough to hold my interest. I did three pattern repeats more than the pattern called for to get
Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. I can only write about this book if I first go off on a couple of tangents: Tangent #1 – I’ve been avoiding this series because of the covers. They’ve got those typical urban fantasy covers with the female character in some sort of sexed-up pose, scantily clad.
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I’d picked this book out of the pile because it was one of the ones that had been sitting there the longest. In hindsight, I wish I’d saved it until winter. I say that because it’s filled with glorious descriptions of Tuscany in the summer, and the author is a gardener, so it’s written right
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