#Vacation part 5: A death in Paris
NOTE: No dogs, husbands, or French people were harmed in the making of this blog post. (Although there were a few REALLY good candidates…)
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Help for #political #insult wannabes; #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
Benjamin Disraeli on how to tell the difference between a misfortune and a calamity—”If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.”
#Vacation part 4: Knife envy and the perfect Workation
Top ten steps to a perfect vacation? Bwahahaha! Like I’d know? When we decided to go to Spain for the …
Page 69 challenge: #Irish #historical #fantasy excerpts from Sheila Lamb’s BRIGID series
Today I’m joining Sheila Lamb’s virtual book tour with a Spotlight and page 69 excerpt from her Brigid Irish Fantasy series Fiery …
@fatjew: thieving bastard or the sincerest form of flattery?
The real problem is that there is a deep-seated, fundamental belief that the internet and everything on it should be free. It’s the internet’s greatest strength and its Achilles heel.
#Gothic, #Ghosts, and #Victorian Viagra, ~DANGER AT THATCHAM HALL by Frances Evesham #RBRT #Bookreviews, interview, excerpt
Arsenic poisoning was a common way for Victorians to die. They used it everywhere: in the new, fashionable green wallpaper that Queen Victoria used in Buckingham Palace; in the green dye of dresses; in “Dr Simms Arsenic Complexion Wafers and Medicated Arsenic Soap;” designed to give a woman a rosy complexion; and in a ‘pure’ form which men took to improve sexual function. Unfortunately, death often followed on the heels of such a use of “Victorian Viagra,” but at least those men died happy.
Starving to death in Spain or…? #traditions, #travel, #queueing & #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
You may not realize this, but Americans do actually know how to queue. The only difference is that when someone jumps the queue in the UK, bystanders’ reactions vary from catching the eye of another observer and shaking one’s head, to (but only in the most egregious cases) glaring severely at the offender (well, at the back of their head, anyway). Very severely.
#Throwback Thursday: Welcome to my bathroom
But the weird part is that they don’t use your best dishes or drink the good booze or even raid the fridge. They just want to use your bathroom.
Challenges
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
… rode 20km in 50 minutes … swam 750m, in a wetsuit, in a lake…. …ran…
Page 69 challenge: urban and epic #fantasy excerpts!
Today I’m excited to present page 69 excerpts from two very different forms of the fantasy genre. ~~**Challenge 1**~~ BloodMarked [The …
Barb Taub 