28 1 / 2012
Ten Children's Lit Titles on the Shelves of Downton Abbey Nursery
In which I speculate wildly on Edwardian children’s classics and which of them you should read. Written for a dear friend’s blog, featuring two of life’s best things: mildly soapy British period dramas and children’s books. Behold.
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27 1 / 2012
"In an otherwise civil discussion of “Downton Abbey’s” second season, actor Hugh Bonneville let loose on an interviewer who casually let it slip that she’d gone online and viewed a pirated version of the British period drama’s Christmas special […] This turned out to be the wrong thing to tell the man who plays proud patriarch Robert Crawley.
“I wish you hadn’t told me you watched it illegally,” said Bonneville […] “That’s really pissing me off. Shame on you. Be ashamed."
[via] He’s as honorable as I dreamed, but his disapproval stings.
[We actually haven’t downloaded it, but certainly the impatience is totally wearing on us.]
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27 1 / 2012
"Imagine someone is used to maybe going to the office, working, making phone calls, going to the ATM, withdrawing money… then you dump them in the forest instead,” said Fred Lulinaki, a programme director at the East and Central Africa Association for Indigenous Rights (ECAAIR). “If they survive, it will be just by luck."
Uganda: Basua community battles for survival
The interview from the tribe’s king suggests he really cares about his people. I hope they are able to find help and a new way of life before it’s too late.
25 1 / 2012
Tug-A-Lu: Nice sentiment: In the era of big boxes, a day for the little guy
From the Miami Herald, Wed, Jan. 25, 2012
By AMY SANCETTA
Associated PressThe idea started with Jim Black, a resident of Chagrin Falls, a close-knit village in Cleveland’s eastern suburbs that is part artist colony and part bedroom community. Black posted the email to a group of his friends. “Let’s show our support for one of our local businesses,” he wrote. “I challenge everyone to spend AT LEAST $20 at the hardware on the 21st.”
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24 1 / 2012
This weekend, I cleaned my desk. Items of note:
- invitation to the wedding of one of my Oxford flatmates
- engagement portrait
- my name spelled out in green wire, made by Layne in ninth grade
- mug I found in the Hampshire Community Garden
albumen photosalt print of my dad by my sister- old lamp of my granny’s
- photo of me and Colleen in Montreal
- my mom as a little girl
- giraffe (?) made by Maddy when she was about five
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23 1 / 2012
Today is my first day back to Holyoke after two weeks of paid leave. The library was closed for a little while after the move as they got the heat sorted.
Holyoke is full of beautiful, historic old buildings falling into disrepair. It’s a great community to serve, and while I’ve enjoyed the extra time to clean and read, snowshoe and hang out with my handsome young godson, it will be good to be back.
23 1 / 2012
I think I could make a pretty good SAT vocabulary prep course out of Decemberists lyrics. There’s a starter list here, but I would have to add their many synonyms for pants as well as Meloy’s frequent use of “panoply.”
22 1 / 2012
J played a trick on Bonnie and knocked a branch’s worth of snow on to her.
As you can see in the second picture, she quickly regained her dignity.
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21 1 / 2012
disaster biscuits
These, but:
- really runny homemade yogurt for buttermilk
- bacon grease for shortening
- 350 degrees instead of 450 because the oven started smoking so you have to use the toaster oven instead and it won’t heat past 350.
And despite all that, they are still very good, and a lovely meal to eat with cheesy scrambled eggs after a snowy bus ride home from class.
20 1 / 2012
Francie from Gilmore Girls loves Downton
OMG, KIRSTEN, HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS?!
I was pleased to realize the other day that the squeaky-voiced doctor on Grey’s Anatomy voiced Quinn’s Fashion Club friend Stacy on Daria, but I read this article and didn’t even notice the GG/DA connection. Clearly, I have to up my game.
(Source: kwafurther)
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