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Books.Tea.Fog.Piracy.
A pirate, and a faery, and an angry little girl.
More often than not I'm reading.
More often than not I'm reading.
16I said, I prefer the ocean when it’s gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.
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I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland”.
Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door (1908)
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Rainbow Journals (with a page for each day of the year) by Gail Stiffe
Handmade, hand-dyed paper. Four books in a box, one book for each season. Hand bound with innovative stitching. View more here.
I do love St Andrews!
Considering most people can barely leave chocolate untouched for a week, it’s amazing that one set of chocolates has been around for over a century. This box of chocolates pictured above hails from St. Andrews, Scotland, and was made especially to commemorate the coronation day of King Edward VII on June 26, 1902. Although the king died just eight years later, the chocolates survived — 106 years, to be exact.
Martha Greig, the original recipient of the confections, passed down the chocolates to her daughter, who later gave it to her daughter, Freida McIntosh. McIntosh has turned the chocolate, along with its collectible box, in to the St. Andrews Preservation Trust. It is considered a contender for the title of world’s oldest chocolate.
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