This lovely cameo bracelet. If anyone knows when this is from please let me know!
I forgot to get a photo of this DVD before I lent it out so here is a stock photo. It was not the best mystery ever but good for its time. The hero is adorably awkward and also really not great at art. I am not sure if the latter was intentional or they forgot to hire someone really good at art to do the portraits like they usually do on TV shows. They might have been making a point about rich people back then being dilettantes but I was not sure. Everyone acted like he was really good.
This weathered but lovely edition of Poe.
This school copy of Tennyson, given as a prize. I don't know if a lot of schools did this, but it can't have been cheap.
The bookplate with the details of the prize winner for needlework in December 1920. The school is a girl's school in Sydney. It was originally opened in a terrace house by Miss Marian Clarke on 20 July 1885. It moved to larger premises at Wahroongah in 1898 and appears to have operated at that location since. It is a private school, currently for girls from pre-school upwards and high school students can board onsite.
The Abbotsleigh motto, Tempus celerius radio fugit, may be translated from Latin as "Time flies faster than the weaver's shuttle". As the shuttle flies a pattern is woven; the shuttle of time also weaves a pattern of which the threads are people, buildings and events. The motto was given to the school by Miss Marian Clarke, whose family crest was a weaver's shuttle surrounded by the motto, Tempus fugit radio celerit. The school used this form until 1924, when it decided that the ungrammatical Latin should be changed to the present word order, which has been used ever since.
The reference to the weaver's shuttle is also believed by many to be a reference to the "proper" place of women in terms of domestic duties/servitude to men. Some members of the school community have called for the motto to be changed to keep pace with modern views on feminine rights. Wikipedia.
As you can see mine still has the ungrammatical original motto.
The Wicked Lovely series is one of my favourite series of Fae stories. You can read about some of my other favourites here.
Akira graphic novel part 1. This was one of the first animes I saw.
A memory book with some very OTT llamas.
My violet plates. Violets are one of my favourite flowers and feature on my floral tattoo sleeve.
The other pieces of my violet collection so far. The two cups on either end were opshop finds, the one in the middle was from a friend, I believe she got it secondhand.
My new William Morris mugs.
What did you think was the best find? Do you have a favourite china pattern?
I loved that BBC adaptation of The Moonstone, it was just as good as the book (not often the case). LOve the Poe & Tennyson books, they're beautiful. I'm not really a fan of dainty china - terrible considering I'm descended from one of the great Staffordshire pottery dynasties! I love the bold designs of William Morris so those mugs are a winner. x
DAY 1: Sunday We arrived at Gold Coast Airport from Sydney early in the morning and got a bus to Surfer's Paradise. Once there we got an early check in at our hotel in the Q1 building at about 12.15, and went out to look around. We checked out the shops and beach. We had an ocean view from our room and could see and hear the waves. DAY 2: Monday Day two's weather was punctuated by rain showers but we were doing mostly indoor activities, so it wasn't a big problem. We started out at Ripley's which was just off the main street in Surfer's Paradise. Ripley's Believe it or Not Robert Ripley ( February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949) began his career as a sportsman and cartoonist. He was fascinated by unusual events and objects, leading to his "Believe it or Not!" comic strips which became very popular. He enjoyed travelling the world to find oddities and opened his first museum in Chicago in 1933, then known as the Odditorium. In 1936 he was voted the most popu...
I received a digital ARC for this book from the author. There are two kinds of books about consumerism, those that are annoyingly preachy, making you feel like a loser for not living a completely frugal life and those that are relatable and help you see points in your own life that you could improve while still embracing life. T his book was definitely one of the latter. As Katrina Townsend says, over-saturation can make you feel “bludgeoned with more things I ought to be doing” and overwhelmed as well as costing you a bundle trying to go green or frugal. You need to be mindful at take it slowly. H er interest in Druidry and spirituality helped her find focus. From the start I was drawn in by Townsend’s friendly tone and nonjudgmental style. S he showed her own failings and made it clear that it is normal to be drawn into the cycle of consumerism in our modern lives. Her story is probably at least a little familiar to most of us. Haven’t most of us been sucked in by the serotonin cycle...
This short story was based around the prompt "March Hare" More on Mythic March here , here and h ere * “She’s absolutely mad!” Henry spat, slamming his beer down on the bar. “Now, now, you’re new to Meadowsweet, we have a lot of characters around here”, Lem the barman said, wiping up the spilled beer with a dirty looking tea towel. Lem was just how Henry would have imagined a small town bartender to look: big, beefy and balding, with an anchor tattoo on one bulging bicep. The fact that Lem preferred words over violence and had been faithfully married to his husband for twenty-six years broke the stereotype somewhat. “You think she’s a character?” Henry said, “She yelled at me for buying traps just today! Said I was a murderer!” This was only the last in a long line of insults that included treating his yard as if it was her own (“foraging”, she claimed) and laughing at him that time he split his trousers in town. “Ah, everyone is really into conservation around these parts”,...
Those William Morris mugs are fab!
ReplyDeleteI loved that BBC adaptation of The Moonstone, it was just as good as the book (not often the case). LOve the Poe & Tennyson books, they're beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really a fan of dainty china - terrible considering I'm descended from one of the great Staffordshire pottery dynasties! I love the bold designs of William Morris so those mugs are a winner. x
Some great finds here, Laura. I'm particularly loving the cameo bracelet and the Poe! xxx
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