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The Most Amusing Thing Today
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5859
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "The Whitstable Pearl Mystery" by Julie Wassmer
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Oh that's spooky Rebecca. One of my friends used to have - and may still have them - a couple of shop mannikins, and also just the head and shoulder figures of a couple of mannikins, in her main room - the heads especially looked really creepy just sitting there. I think they were theatrical props that she got from somewhere but eugh!
Currently reading "The Whitstable Pearl Mystery" by Julie Wassmer
lol Madeleine about your friends mannequins, they'd spook me for sure I don't know why but I particularly dislike the dolls that look so real. I find them spooky .
But other than that I like to fill up our little bird feeder and watch the sparrows fly down for a feed and a drink. that makes me happy.
Bec
But other than that I like to fill up our little bird feeder and watch the sparrows fly down for a feed and a drink. that makes me happy.
Bec
- LoveHistory
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3751
- Joined: September 2008
- Location: Wisconsin, USA
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Got a compliment from an online acquaintance about my book. I asked which one she was reading and she wrote back with a title I'd never heard of before. So I went to Google.
Apparently there's another author using the same name who writes erotic fiction. I'm not in a huff given that it's not my real name (and I doubt it's hers either) but I did research online before choosing it to make sure no one else was using it for writing.
Still, I find it a bit amusing to think of her fans picking up one of my books and being terribly disappointed.
Apparently there's another author using the same name who writes erotic fiction. I'm not in a huff given that it's not my real name (and I doubt it's hers either) but I did research online before choosing it to make sure no one else was using it for writing.
Still, I find it a bit amusing to think of her fans picking up one of my books and being terribly disappointed.
- DianeL
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1029
- Joined: May 2011
- Location: Midatlantic east coast, United States
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LoveHistory: eep/hee!
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---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
We went to York today and had a walk on the wall. Had to laugh when a woman said 'You'd think they'd have built a slipway from the wall to the station'. Didn't she know what was built first??? LOL. Medieval wall, Victorian railway station, medieval wall, Victorian railway station??? There was a wall in Roman times but I don't think there is a lot left of it. But it's definitely medieval or slightly earlier.
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- DianeL
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1029
- Joined: May 2011
- Location: Midatlantic east coast, United States
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[quote=""Vanessa""]We went to York today and had a walk on the wall. Had to laugh when a woman said 'You'd think they'd have built a slipway from the wall to the station'. Didn't she know what was built first??? LOL. Medieval wall, Victorian railway station, medieval wall, Victorian railway station??? There was a wall in Roman times but I don't think there is a lot left of it. But it's definitely medieval or slightly earlier.[/quote]
That is genuinely funny!
That is genuinely funny!
"To be the queen, she agreed to be the widow!"
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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http://dianelmajor.blogspot.com/
I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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http://dianelmajor.blogspot.com/
I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor