I must first note that the back cover blurb on the modern edition of this book is terrible – it gives away the climax of the book, and doesn’t really give you a flavor of what came before it. Here, we have Sir Waldo Hawkridge, lately having inherited a Yorkshire estate from an eccentric cousin. […]
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I honestly don’t remember what added this book to my reading pile – it’s a scholarly work. It’s also very readable, and has some great information. Sadly, I was a little disappointed, because most of the crime in this book was against the church, and I guess I was expecting something a little more interesting
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The community garden plot is definitely looking lush. In addition to the crazy zucchini, a bunch of other produce is coming along. Here’s one of the fairy eggplants coming along. It has huge flowers, bigger than the Asian variety that I’m also growing, which will have bigger fruit. I can totally
And lo, the deluge of zucchini has begun. This was the crop last Wednesday. I got another one of about the same size on Friday morning – I’d made a point to stop because were were going away for the next two nights. I left it with nothing of any
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I added the second tier of tomato cages today – probably should have done that a couple of weeks ago. I ended up tying several large stems to various places outside the cages to keep them corralled. Definitely need to keep track of the timing better for next year. It’s a good thing
A few pictures from the community garden over the week – I’ve got at least one small tomato, and the eggplant are blooming. I did take home the larger zucchini in that picture – I knew I wasn’t going to be by for a few more days, and those have a habit of blowing
I picked this book up at the Kancamagus Trail visitor’s center at the start of our Northern New England/Montreal trip. Originally published in 2003, it’s pretty much what I’ve been doing with my wildflower blog – write ups of various flowers he’s run into, but with less pictures than I would have gone with. He
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The child sized Skull hat is done. I’m not officially closing out the project yet – this is a bit big for M this year. So I have to have a little think about that. So, in the meantime, I’m moving on to something else. This is my 40th birthday sweater –
Here’s a Brother Cadfael book where the murder doesn’t occur in Shrewsbury (which is probably a good thing – all those murders in one town can’t be that good for civic moral). At the same time as the festival of the Translation of Saint Winifred to the monastery, while pilgrims are arriving, the Abbot is
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Caitrin has run away from a terrible situation at home, and finds herself at Whistling Tor. The townspeople try and convince her to leave, talking about a curse on the chieftain’s house on the Tor, but he has sent his man to town to advertise for a scribe, and Caitrin sees the opportunity to practice
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