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my local opera house has announced intentions of performing one of Wagner's operas this autumn - who wants to join me to see it?

'Lord Fermanagh, when ill for fifteen days in 1716, drank "horse-dung posset daily."' 'I drank snail tea for breakfast...for my chest is very sore.' ^dubious 18th century cures, from a highly amusing read, 'The Age of Scandal' by T H White

re-reading Tolkien's LOTR trilogy one can't help noticing how often Tolkien equates evil with the destruction or maiming of trees - indeed I believe he alludes to this himself in one of his letters

having already gone to bed I did not see the blood moon last night, but nonetheless snapped one photo when I let the dogs out

George iii approves

the American revolution was sparked over petty trifles and George III was right to oppose the colonies' independence

once one is accustomed to them, the variances of late-mediaeval spelling are rather charming

Robert Browning

I still maintain that it is much more sensible (and symbolic) to begin the new year in March, at the opening of spring, than in the dead of winter: in this our ancestors were, as in so many other ways, wiser than ourselves

Happy May Day and Beltane! 🌷🌿🪻🌳 Now go frolic in wood and garden as one ought to on such occasions

though it'll be a few years afore I can make it happen, seven years on from finishing my MA in History I've finally decivisely determined on an emphasis and thesis subject for my PhD, and thereby become sure I -do- wish to pursue one...sometime in the next decade

just booked tickets to see one of Wagner's operas (Das Rheingold) this fall...I'm quite delighted my local opera will be doing the full Ring cyle over the next four years