I signed up and paid for a lifetime LibraryThing account on 18th September last year (incidentally, 18th September is my younger sister’s birthday!). This week, I finally started cataloguing my books. I was kind of putting it off because I knew once I started I wouldn’t want to stop. That fear has proven to be […]
Oh yes… and yesterday I bought The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir from Elizabeth’s. I’ve always been intrigued by the history of the British monarchs, especially during the times when beheading and other gory forms of execution were used. The story of the House of Tudor, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I are […]
A wonderful smell came creeping into the dining room, followed by the inn-woman carrying a large tray. On it was a steaming tureen of porridge, a bowl of golden syrup, a jug of very thick cream, and a dish of bacon and eggs, all piled high on crisp brown toast. Little mushrooms were on the […]