Handy Household Hints – Keeping yourself nice

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While trawling though historical newspapers recently I read, in amongst a collection of household hints, a particularly eye-watering recipe for a hair tonic (more about that later). At that moment household hints seemed vastly more fascinating than the topic I was researching so I went on a household hint hunt. Newspaper columns devoted to these … Continue reading Handy Household Hints – Keeping yourself nice

Faces in the Street – Bestest Friends

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Those of us whose households include furred members know what an important part of family life they play and if a family photograph is taken, they often take their rightful place alongside us. For children they are often their 'bestest' friends, especially when the child is in trouble for a misdeed. In the nineteenth and … Continue reading Faces in the Street – Bestest Friends

Book Review – AnaRose and the Templar’s Quest by Mary Ann Bernal

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AnaRose Preston is a respected museum curator and antiquities expert. When she travels to France to authenticate a ring believed to have belonged to Balian of Ibelin, the knight who surrendered Jerusalem to Saladin, she embarks on what quickly becomes a quest to locate a legendary relic, the Holy Nail, possibly hidden in a dagger … Continue reading Book Review – AnaRose and the Templar’s Quest by Mary Ann Bernal