The quirky meander through the origins of language in the Polish calendar

With a few exceptions that are Latin, the Polish month names of the year take more from the Pagan world of seasonal changes, rather than from the Latin calendar that we all know and use in English.

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #107

Haere mai and welcome to edition #107 of the ever-lasting gobstopper that is 10 Interesthing Things I Found on the Internet just when you thought all weird things have been exhausted…here comes a few more to tickle your fancy and light up your nether-regions. Let me know what you think below in the comments…Ciao for now.

Comforting Thought: The Summer’s Day by Mary Oliver

“Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” -The Summer Day by Mary Oliver.

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #106

Enjoy ASMR from an ancient library, paintings to evoke childhood wonder, a yummy lentil curry, a punk loving goat and how to cope with climate anxiety and much more this week.

Book Review: Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Rating: ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Publisher: Text publishing. Genre: Fiction, psychological thriller. Review in one word: Perky Scottish writer Graeme Macrae Burnet is the author of one of the best Scottish crime novels ever written His Bloody Project, which I have reviewed on this blog before. Burnet’s new book is yet another step back in time and anotherContinue reading “Book Review: Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet”

Powerful Thought: The dead bird urges you to write

Rachel Carson was urged to write ‘Silent Spring’ by the dead birds she held in her hands who called her to write.

She could not live, knowing what she had learned about DDT, without speaking, without – her gift – lifting her pen to write.

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #105

Watch a beautiful kitten transform into an adult, journey along with a dog school, learn how to help a grieving person, enjoy some roaring 20’s art of birds and blooms, some floaty ambient sounds and much more in edition #105. Hope you enjoy it

Comforting Thought: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miled through the desert, repenting, you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” – Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Book Review: Something out of Place, Women and Disgust by Eimear McBride

Rating: ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Genre: Non-Fiction, Feminism, Sociology, Philosophy, Sexuality. Publisher: Picador Review in one word: Provocative This is a fascinating, provocative and stirring book. It enrages and stimulates in equal measure and will make you think differently about the world if you are a woman or if you are a man then you will come to understand the disturbing waysContinue reading “Book Review: Something out of Place, Women and Disgust by Eimear McBride”

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #104

Enjoy a calming tea ritual, be shaken up out of procrastination in a Tokyo cafe, learn some ancient Irish words that are now used in English, a bittersweet lament to birds by Christopher Tin, endangered mushrooms, acid trance and belated 2023 horoscopes by the internet’s lesser known psychic and much more in edition #104. Nana stays.