* No Spoilers Rating: ๐๐๐๐ Scottish Forensic Anthropologist and Professor Sue Black’s memoir about her life confronting death won the Saltire Book of the Year in 2018. Forensic anthropology (in case you are wondering) is the study of human remains in order to solve criminal cases. I was very excited to read this book. YetContinue reading “Book Review: All that Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black”
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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #68
Hello gorgeous friends, thanks for joining me again for another weird and wonderful tip-toe through a surreal realm, here are 10 things that looked good to me this week. Stay cool, stay inspired, stay cosy… Tiny and enchanting book necklaces from 19th century Ethiopia Via Incunabula on Twitter Here’s some books on a necklace forContinue reading “10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #68”
Words and Music: Call on a karakia
Kua rongo ake au… Mฤ te karakia mฤ te ฤซnoi, mฤ te noho puku Ka taea e au ngฤ mea katoa I have learned… That I can call upon a karakia When I look for solutions to the Challenges that face me.
Comforting Thought: What makes us human
โWhat makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that takes place over time and leave behind our traces.โโ Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
Book Review: The Sky Atlas by Edward Brooke Hitching
* No Spoilers Rating: ๐๐๐๐๐ Edward Brooke Hitching, history-hound, lover of quirky things and writer for the ever-popular and erudite quiz show QI, has written The Sky Atlas. A treasury and history of some of humankindโs most beautiful maps and charts. Yet this book is more than that, itโs a sparkling and glittering array ofContinue reading “Book Review: The Sky Atlas by Edward Brooke Hitching”
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #67
Roll-up, roll-up for another big top edition of 10 Interesting Things I Found, edition number 67, it’s a strange world we live in filled with strange, half-human half-creature beings that inhabit positions of power. Needless to say all we can do is escape into a world of our own making, so here it is… ElegantContinue reading “10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #67”
Comforting Thought: Cherish good friends
With one good friend, having Nothing feels simply enough, and going Nowhere is the most exciting journey. Cherish good friends. Googie McCabe
Book Review: The Lives of the Surrealists by Desmond Morris
* No Spoilers Rating: ๐๐๐๐๐ This is an incredible book. Written by Desmond Morris who is a prominent Zoologist and well-known for his book The Naked Ape. It’s possibly less widely known that Morris was himself a surrealist and knew many of the prominent surrealists in the art movement. I have to admit not knowingContinue reading “Book Review: The Lives of the Surrealists by Desmond Morris”
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #66
Curl up in a cosy corner and feast your mind on these glittering gems and little known wonders. I hope you like edition #66, the first edition of 2022. Spray to use on Twitter trolls Schiaparelli Afternoon Pyjamas from the 1920s – a century before its time! From the 1920’s. This comfortable and chic indoorwearContinue reading “10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #66”
Comforting Thought: Dwell on the past to reclaim the hidden depths of your culture
If you want to be everywhere at once, then you canโt stand firm anywhere. โThe engrossed are concerned with the present time alone, and it is so brief that it cannot be grasped, even this is filched away from them distracted as they are by many things. The mind that is untroubled and tranquil hasContinue reading “Comforting Thought: Dwell on the past to reclaim the hidden depths of your culture”
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