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Quote me on that… Romance
Image adapted from original of NigelHowe of Flickr under terms of creative commons license A beautiful passage from a brilliant book which sprung into my mind today. If you haven’t read The Passion by...
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Quote me on that… love is like smallpox
Derived from an origingal image by Supercoco on Flickr under the terms of the Creative Commons license Imagine a world in which they did. Oh wait, I think that someone has and wrote a successful series...
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Quote me on that… sleep
Image adapted from original by Mrs Magic And everything will seem better in the morning, one of the classic great lies.
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Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing
This week I’ve been spending a lot of time lying on my sofa recovering from my operation and have been too tired to do anything, including read. After dozing through way too much daytime TV my soul was...
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Romantic Hero? I’d rather have a cup of tea
I’ll admit that I’m not the most romantic of people. Those marriage proposals with flash mobs and onlookers just make me cringe, and I prefer a cup of tea and biscuit from my boyfriend than the hearts...
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Quotes about love from young adult fiction
Happy Valentine’s Day Kiddiewinks! A little while ago I got to thinking about nostalgia, and why it is the books and songs that we like as teenagers seem to stick in our minds more than anything we...
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Quote me on that… Montaigne on Marriage
Image adapted from original by Penni Janisch Moler under the Creative Commons license If you had a bad Valentine’s day or someone has asked you why you’re not planning to get married recently, quote...
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The Song of Achilles- Madeline Miller
I’ve always been a fan of classical mythology, though this tends to manifest itself through adaptations because having tried reading translations of The Iliad and They Odyssey, I found them a little...
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Welsh Cakes for St Dwynwen’s Day
Sweet treats for your cariad? It’s Dydd Santes Dwyenwen/St Dwynwen’s Day tomorrow (a bit like a Welsh Valentine’s Day) so how better to show some love than by baking someone some Welsh cakes, or pice...
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Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds
Reading Stag’s Leap is an uncomfortable sensation. At times, you feel like you are reading a stranger’s diary, section by section chronicling the breakdown of their marriage and aftermath of their...
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