Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needleby Clare Hunter. This was mentioned on another blog recently and I thought I’d give the audiobook a try. It’s on Spotify premium. It’s really interesting so far and I like the Scottish narrator a lot. I recognise...
[but] Of all kinds of experience, the best, he thought, was interior illumination, which teaches many things about Nature which the external senses could never discover, such as the transubstantiation of bread."[149] Later scholars have therefore viewed him as a proto-protestant.[150] In ...
Dinah Brooke adopts both the perspective of a frightened and lonely little girl in 1942 and of her adult self, aware of history with a big H (the battle of El Alamein) and a little one (her father’s being evacuated with a case of jaundice before the attack). At school, “The Misera...
didn’t stop for five days, and when I woke up in the hospital on the morning of December 30, I was no longer pregnant and the remnants of my son—his name was going to be Kieran Adam—were god knows where and I felt so empty and I wanted to die but I had a toddler ...
The Evil Queen (also known as the Wicked Queen, or simply, the Queen) is the main antagonist of Disney's 1937 animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the first Disney villain in the Disney animated features canon. Determined to remain the fairest one of all, the Queen...
It also grabbed me because of the recommendation on the front: ‘I loved this book… I’m so desperate for you all to share in its wonder, Elizabeth Day.’ It made me smile because at the moment I’m addicted to Elizabeth’s audiobook Friendaholic. I’m probably one of the very few...
Dr. Osguthorpe:Sure. So, the yeast in MetaPWR Advantage and the yeast in a loaf of bread is the same. They are the same species. They're non-pathogenic. They don't cause any human disease. And they really help keep us alive. ...
Wine and bread? Yes please! In addition to the fine Falernian and Chian vintages that might have graced the tables of the wealthy, there was also a wine concentrate that had to be diluted in water. Among the poor, the drink of choice was posca, a sort of watered down acetum akin to...
(while I was in Japan and a couple of weeks after I returned). These days I’m reading one book during the day, usually a novel, listening to an audiobook while I walk, and reading a third book on my Kindle at night (reading a regular book required too much light when Brett wanted...
I get a flood of happy memories of walks that’ve taken me through industrial estates around the fringe of London, often at sunset in glowing light. There’s a strong smell of bread in the air. People are working out to music at Low Hall Recreation Ground. I take the path up ...