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Susan
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Post by Susan » Sat January 10th, 2009, 10:34 pm

In Canterbury doing some embroidery.
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Post by Kasthu » Sat January 10th, 2009, 11:00 pm

[quote=""Kasthu""]I'm in 19th century Brooklyn with Harriet and Isabella, the two Beecher sisters.[/quote]

In addition, I'm simultaneously in 1659 England with Cynthia Harrod-Eagles's The Black Pearl.

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Post by Misfit » Thu January 15th, 2009, 4:25 pm

San Francisco 1906. The earth just shook - a whole lot.

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Vanessa
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Post by Vanessa » Tue January 20th, 2009, 3:39 pm

I seem to be flitting between Prague and New York in the 1940s, 1960s and the more present day.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads

Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind

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Post by EC2 » Tue January 20th, 2009, 5:00 pm

In the nunnery at Godstow which has been taken over by Eleanor of Aquitaine and her mercenaries. We're all snowed in and there's a body in the ice house.
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Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard n’I 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

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Post by Leo62 » Tue January 20th, 2009, 5:55 pm

[quote=""Susan""]In Canterbury doing some embroidery.[/quote]

Hey so am I. What a coincidence! :p

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Alaric
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Post by Alaric » Wed January 21st, 2009, 11:28 am

Spanish-Portuguese frontier, 1811.

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Post by Leo62 » Fri January 23rd, 2009, 8:30 pm

Finished my stint of Kentish embrodiery, now off to the 1850's Arctic. Brrrrrrrr!

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Post by Amanda » Fri January 23rd, 2009, 8:44 pm

In Canterybury Cathedral.....Becket has just been murdered.

And in Medieval China with a sisterhood who have just celebrated a wedding.

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Vanessa
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Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Post by Vanessa » Thu February 12th, 2009, 9:46 am

I'm in Chicago in 1907 embarking on an affair with an architect (good job he's rich and handsome, that's all I can say!!).
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads

Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind

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