Wishing you all a wonderful, joyous & fun filled 2025. May all your books delight & enthral! Or enrage & infuriate - whatever you fancy!
2024
Heading out for New Years?
Kirkstall Abbey House – Consultation about closure
Leeds City Council are proposing to close Abbey House Museum as part of cost saving cuts. Abbey House Museum (and the Abbey ruins - see lower half of this post) is a telescope to the past - it allows us to glimpse at the way ‘loiners’ lived their lives in the not do distant past. … Continue reading Kirkstall Abbey House – Consultation about closure
POEM – Amanda Gorman – Do Us Good
A response to her watching Wicked. https://youtu.be/BPOVo3_pyos?feature=shared Transcript: Are we born wicked or do we have wickedness thrust upon us? Are we born bad or brave? There is a world we miss when we misbehave, but we miss just as much when we misconstrue. When we distrust what is different, and detest what is new. … Continue reading POEM – Amanda Gorman – Do Us Good
POEM – My father perceived as a Vision of St Francis
Irish poet Paula Meehan reads one of her earlier works. Despite her becoming in 2013 the Ireland Professor of Poetry by President Higgins, I’ve not come across any of her work before - something I will seek to remedy in the near future! Her Wikipedia page suggests that she is a force to be reckoned … Continue reading POEM – My father perceived as a Vision of St Francis
Remember – no book club today!
LBC Horsforth – DATE CHANGE! SEPTEMBER 7, 2024 Hello everyone! The Horsforth book club will be meeting on 25th September 2024 at the Old Kings Arms to discuss The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell The date change is to facilitate summer holidays. (How very dare I?) Blurb ‘I thought I had made myself clear. I … Continue reading Remember – no book club today!
LBC Horsforth – DATE CHANGE!
Hello everyone! The Horsforth book club will be meeting on 25th September 2024 at the Old Kings Arms to discuss The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell The date change is to facilitate summer holidays. (How very dare I?) Blurb ‘I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. … Continue reading LBC Horsforth – DATE CHANGE!
No War – Women’s Summit – Baroness Von Sketch Show
Heaven forfend that you mistake this for a political post. Obviously as a book club I have no strong political viewpoints* This is just a sketch that made me laugh. https://youtu.be/Si1dm2xLxXE?feature=shared Nothing to do with Kamala Harris defending the democratic tradition within the United States against an egotistical wannabe dictator. https://youtu.be/UKWFakjXXdc?feature=shared *this is an outright … Continue reading No War – Women’s Summit – Baroness Von Sketch Show
Social media is awful…but…
It also gives us gems like this! Text reads - photosbygy-deactivated20200605 kinda wanna relationship, kinda wanna stay single my whole life, kinda wanna go on adventures, kinda wanna stay in my bed my whole life - obtrta It's the Baggins side of your bloodline fighting the Took in you - septembersung There are two wolves … Continue reading Social media is awful…but…
Which medieval owl are you?
This has been keeping me entertained for far longer than can be seen as reasonable.
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