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Alex Gutteridge writes...: September 2014
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Wednesday, 24 September 2014. Wordless Wednesday - An Unusual Type of Pot Plant! Sunday, 21 September 2014. Last week it was our wedding anniversary. It is 33 years since we married, 35 since we met. We were little more than children back then and we have in many ways grown up together. We don't often buy each other gifts but my husband always gets me flowers. This year it was a stunning bunch of freesias from De Jager. Would I have had three auburn haired children? Would I have been happy? A few weeks a...
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Alex Gutteridge writes...: Days Out
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Friday, 20 March 2015. Days out can seem like such an indulgence. Ever since I first started writing there has been this constant conflict - when I'm writing I always think of all of the other things which need doing and when I'm not placing words on the page I feel that I should be! But by the time we emerged from the tube station at Leicester Square a lemony spring sunshine was brightening the buildings and lifting our spirits. The exhibition focuses on Sargent's non-commissioned work so there is a fre...
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Bii's Books: October 2014
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A blog for everything bookish. Saturday, 25 October 2014. Reading Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room. Jacob’s Room follows the early life of a promising young man. Jacob Flanders is a man with a mind, with potential, but he is also a man with a future that never comes off. We follow Jacob from a childhood holiday in Cornwall, to his early life in Scarborough, to his time in university, to a trip across Greece and Italy, to his eventual (though practically unmentioned) end. Certainly her work has a movie-esque ...
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Bii's Books: September 2014
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A blog for everything bookish. Sunday, 28 September 2014. Reading Virginia Woolf: The Voyage Out. As Woolf describes it), is passionate about music, and leads a thoroughly directionless life. Is this Terence talking, or Woolf? The Voyage Out receives an introductory 8 out of 10 Biis. Wednesday, 24 September 2014. Thoughts on reading women for 2014. So what did happen? Reading women has been a joyful experience. I have, now, in my sights a catalogue of amazing male writers and equally amazing female w...
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short & sweet: Thursday Feb 6th (tout sweet)
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Laquo; hoof soup. Tout soul: two years on ». Short and sweet: Thursday Feb 6th. February 2, 2014. A quick note to say that I will be giving a talk at the Entente Internationale du Pays Civraisin at Les Terres Rouge, Civray (on the road to Ruffec) this Thursday at 8 pm, on the health benefits of the 18th-century French diet and the slimming secrets of Marie Antoinette (including the recipe for her magical soup). I'll also be signing book afterwards, if there is anyone left in the Poitou who. Two old fools...
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oh, sugar (tout sweet)
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Laquo; books for dogs charity sale. Hoof soup ». January 12, 2014. So my little diet book,. The Marie Antoinette Diet: Eat Cake and Still Lose Weight. Is now available as a paperback, expanded with new recipes. The reason that I took a year-long detour to research and write this book which is not just about weight loss but eating for better health is that the subject matter is something I feel very passionately about. One of the controversial ingredients that I flagged up when. The Marie Antoinette Diet.
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tout soul: two years on (tout sweet)
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Laquo; short and sweet: Thursday Feb 6th. The devil eats prada (cake) ». Tout soul: two years on. May 27, 2014. I can't believe that it is two years since. Tout Soul: The Pursuit of Happiness in France. Was published. It seems like another lifetime ago. In it's first year Tout Soul sold 3183 print and 3460 ebook copies a total of 6643. In its second year sales from 31st March 2013 to 31st March 2014 it has sold 682 print copies and 990 ebook copies, a total of 1672 copies. Rather than splitting this betw...
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the devil eats prada (cake) (tout sweet)
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Laquo; tout soul: two years on. King's donation ». The devil eats prada (cake). May 30, 2014. If ever I were to be invited on Mastermind (unlikely, I know) my specialist subject would be ‘leading cake shops of the world’. But there is one pastry shop that had, until a couple of weeks ago, slipped below my radar: Pasticceria Marchesi. I don’t know how, despite many visits to Milan for the fashion shows, I’d failed to notice this elegant, 19th-century pastry shop on Corso Magenta. But It is the mini-pastri...
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books for dogs – charity sale (tout sweet)
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Laquo; festival 9-10th august. Oh, sugar ». Books for dogs charity sale. October 3, 2013. WOOFS Ever since a little doglet of our acquaintance went to the vet’s on the. My (human) pet has been super-nice to me, saying things, like ‘Biff, you’re the best dog in the world’ and ‘I’m so lucky to have you’. I haven’t exploited this (much) as I know that there are lots of dogs out there who aren’t so lucky and who are languishing in rescue homes, waiting for a human to love them. In Clussais La Pommeraie, 79190.
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Bii's Books: The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho (translator Nobuyuki Yuasa)
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A blog for everything bookish. Sunday, 24 May 2015. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho (translator Nobuyuki Yuasa). No, not that. Narrow Road to the Deep North, the ubiquitous Booker winning novel by Richard Flanagan gracing every shelf of every bookshop at the moment, but the original travel sketches by 17. Century haiku master Matsuo Basho. He of the sublime poetry. That one. In the utter silence. Of a temple,. A cicada’s voice alone. It may be narrow –. Trying ...