Friend’s cat
This is my friend s lovely cat who died recently.
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The Needlewoman, December 1938
I enjoyed this 1938 Needlewoman magazine. Thinking of making this zig-zag pattern scarf. This embroidered cat picture is good. And more advertisements should have poems.
Forget-Me-Not Club, August 1910
From the Club page of Forget-Me-Not magazine, A Dainty Journal for Ladies , 27th August 1910. Good novel material, sounds like the start of an Oxenham book: I wonder whether any of our members would like to give 26682 (Trowbridge) a holiday under the terms she mentions? Here is her letter: I hope you will not [ ]
A hot black cat and a ferociously-groomed white dog
Cat is mine, dog is not.
In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult (book #181)
Memoir by Rebecca Stott, 2017. Guardian review here. There is a description of Stott illicitly discovering Enid Blyton in the school library: The library door was open. That, I persuaded myself, probably meant it was all right. The Lord must be showing me the way On the cover of The Secret Island, a group [ ]
Learning to Drive, And Other Life Stories (book #180)
Katha Pollitt, 2007. I hadn t previously heard of this American theorist and essayist. Came across this book through a Slate problem page question, where it is recommended to someone who doesn t drive. It s not really about that, but I m glad I read it anyway. Some quotations: Talking about what a world without men would be [ ]
Ruth Erskine’s Son (book #179)
Isabella Alden, Pansy , 1888. Ruth Erskine is not the most immediately appealing of the four girls who go to Chautauqua in the first book of the series. Compared to Flossy, who is child-like, warm, empathetic and impresses me as one who is being led (Ester Reid Yet Speaking), or Marian, clever, poor, proud and ambitious, [ ]
A Man Lay Dead (book #178, Marsh re-read #1)
Ngaio Marsh re-read: A Man Lay Dead (1934). I m doing a Marsh re-read in order, starting with A Man Lay Dead. The book is available online here. There are no spoilers in this review. Setting The setting is a country house belonging to Sir Hubert Handesley. The reader s point of view is that of Nigel [ ]
The Silent Traveller in Oxford (book #177)
Chiang Yee, 1944. while strolling near Radcliffe Square. In the soft late spring air a haze of peaceful antiquity seemed to permeate the very stones of the buildings. The round dominating dome of the Camera in the centre; the St. Mary s Spire; the dull yellow wall of Brasenose; the twin towers of All Souls ; [ ]
Welcome Death (book #176)
Glyn Daniel, 1954. Dedicated to Villiers David. Martin Edwards says that this was a friend of Daniel and a poet, painter and novelist. This second mystery by the archaeologist Glyn Daniel is set in 1945 in the seaside village of Llanddewi in the Vale of Glamorgan. Plot spoilers follow but I do not reveal the [ ]