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Mostly books, more books, some knitting - mostly socks, some quilting, more books, country life and sharing the passion of reading all from rural Devon, England
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Christmas Eve in Devon
Christmas Eve, this was the sky from the sitting room window a few days ago, the moon looking beautiful, and twinkling off to the left, am I right, is it Jupiter at the moment...Dark Puss are you there, you usually confirm this sort of thing for us....
Christmas Eve prize draw
Just to get us in the swing of the Twelve Days of prize draws to come, names in comments today to win a copy of either A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz or Mrs Tim of the Regiment by D.E.Stevenson from the Bloomsbury Classics range, three...
Rocky is uncertain...
...about the arrival Chez dovegreyreader of nine-week old Rusty, the Gamekeeper's gundog puppy. Rusty was in great need of a bath and will be staying indoors in the warm for a few weeks until he's been to the vet for his injections and has plumped up...
Mrs Scrooge, and the winners are...
Congratulations here are the lucky winners, and copies of Mrs Scrooge by Carol Ann Duffy will be winging their way to 4 Nancy J17 Mieke45 Lynn Brown47 Jenny Lee57 Jenny Ryan62 Mirren83 TJ86 Sue A Check it's really you next to your comment in the ...
On letters....
"The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for." ~Jane AustenOh Jane, if only you had plighted your troth to Harris Big...
Imran Ahmad\'s Christmas update and prize draw copies of Unimagined
That's it, the sun sinks slowly in the west and the shortest day has been and gone, tomorrow we get 7h 57m 27secs.Those of you who have been visiting here for a while may recall Imran Ahmad's review of his year last Christmas follow...

