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- princess garnet
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Found out we'll be closed Christmas Eve! 3 day weekend!
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- DianeL
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Five bluebirds outside the office window this afternoon. Joyous and lovely!
"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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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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- Nefret
- Bibliomaniac
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- Joined: February 2009
- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
Winning a gift card for my new favourite tea company (which I then used). And I found something that I thought I'd lost (it wasn't that important, but it was useful and a reminder of a fun day.)
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
- SonjaMarie
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- Location: Vashon, WA
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Learning that two more books in a series I thought was dead will out next year but only for ereaders at the moment.
SM
SM
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Original Join Date: Mar 2006
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My Booksfree Queue
Original Join Date: Mar 2006
Previous Amount of Posts: 2,517
Books Read In 2014: 109 - June: 17 (May: 17)
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Hooray! Congratulations! We were at that stage last year. We'd Just sold ours and put in an offer on the cottage we're living in now!
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
- DianeL
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Congratulations!
No news here but that is is a bright, windy, and COLD winter day I get to spend inside taking care of my home and holidays. And that I am flanked by wonderful fur-bearing critters.
No news here but that is is a bright, windy, and COLD winter day I get to spend inside taking care of my home and holidays. And that I am flanked by wonderful fur-bearing critters.
"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
***
http://dianelmajor.blogspot.com/
I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor
[quote=""EC2""]Hooray! Congratulations! We were at that stage last year. We'd Just sold ours and put in an offer on the cottage we're living in now![/quote]
Thanks..Isn't amazing how much mess one can acumulate over the years...I've even found receipts dating from 20 years ago! ...This house has only sad memories for me now and I wish to move on...
As for the weather here. I just stepped out to hang our my washing and felt like a chicken on a rotisserie ...It is HOT! And I hate north easterly winds. But at least on Christmas day it will be cooler.
Bec
Thanks..Isn't amazing how much mess one can acumulate over the years...I've even found receipts dating from 20 years ago! ...This house has only sad memories for me now and I wish to move on...
As for the weather here. I just stepped out to hang our my washing and felt like a chicken on a rotisserie ...It is HOT! And I hate north easterly winds. But at least on Christmas day it will be cooler.
Bec
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- Antoine Vanner
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- Posts: 70
- Joined: October 2012
- Location: South-East England
Back at the Mediterranean!
Good to waken up and look out on the Mediterranean, which holds so many memories of all parts of it over more than four decades. The sea is dead-flat and it promises to be another warm day once the light mist clears. I'm in Southern Spain for Christmas and yesterday was spent driving up through the mountains on winding roads to the splendid old town of Ronda. It's split by a very deep gorge which is spanned by three bridges, the oldest Roman, and the latest, from the 18th Century, a spectacular piece of engineering. It was from this that large numbers of alleged Nationalist supporters were thrown in 1936, proividing the inspiration for a similar incident in Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls". In a few days heading over to Jerez to visit equestrian centres.