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I realised something recently: I rarely write fractions in my daily life. I might divvy up a pizza with friends, cut up pieces of round birthday cake, or refer to times as “quarter past five” instead of 17:15 in speech. But I somehow...
With seven days to go, thanks to generosity of 132 donors, we have raised £14,081 towards our target of £25,000 to publish Women at Work, Sarah Ainslie’s East End Portraits 1992-2025. If you have not contributed please consider doing so...
Hello Darling Ones, It’s been a long time since I took to the web to complain about a book, but I read one yesterday that infuriated me more than any book has in a long time. For the most part I quit a book the moment it starts to annoy...
I finally seem to have committed to the habit of drawing outside daily. For the past week I’ve been getting out of the apartment every day and sketching – even watercolor painting – the scenes in front of me. The longer days of the...
We were visiting with my in-laws this evening, talking about all sorts of things. Eventually the conversation turned to our worries about caring for my mom. My mother-in-law had been talking about her experience caring for a relative...
Came across Michael Bliss’s lengthily-titled Laurel and Hardy’s Comic Catastrophes: Laughter and Darkness in the Features and Short Films, and it’s honestly OK, but I don’t need OK when I have Charles Barr, Walter Kerr, John McCabe and...
I want a box that I can just plug in that hosts private services for me.
I have been reading Winnie-the-Pooh recently, and was surprised how problematic one of the original Pooh stories (from the 1920s) sounds from the perspective of nowadays.