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Finally February arrived. A weekend of entertaining my parents. The first time they've stayed in our home. It was lovely. We wandered i...

Rachel a t Booksnob   hosted a gentle re read of Sense &Sensibility. I re read it recently for book club so it wasn't the right time...

"The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest, It ...

"Made a noise in the back of her mouth and then sat saying nothing, but looking the way women do when they have an opinion they are no...

I've managed to read one book for Venice in February. This week's quotes are from books I've already read set in Venice. Miss Ga...

As it's Flowers and Stripes second birthday tomorrow I thought a cake, flowers, balloons and a new party dress were desired....  cak...

As it's Valentine's day and Florence Finds Book Club this month is Little Women here's a quote from L.M. Alcott. Mother March ...

I joyfully joined in with Venice in February partly as I knew we had a book I could read, without having to buy another one. It was Ian McE...

Wislawa Szymborska. Somewhere I read this poem . I loved it so much I searched for my own copy. When I read about the death of Polish Nobel...

Seventh February There is something very beautiful in the tracery of the bare black branches of the trees against the pale blue sky. D.E St...