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Tag: quotations
Monday Art: Fine-tuning my calligraphy quotes
A friend suggests I make my decorated quotations into a coffee-table book, and I can't get the idea out of …

It’s All Too Much
I was going to write about this wonderful book I'm reading, Peter Walsh's It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan …
More instructions from the sixteenth century
Here is another tidbit from Gastronomica, by request. This one has yet again to do with sixteenth-century cookbooks (anyone who …
Ugh
I slept really badly last night, worse than I can remember sleeping in a long time. It might have been …
Happy birthday to me!
From a completely hilarious book I began reading yesterday: 'Really, the last truly happy birthday an adult ever has is …
Grab bag
I found a good quote to go with yesterday's entry: "Everyone's doing research nowadays," said Tuppence. "I don't know actually …