I have all the books and often recommend them to friends. I love the humor with which you approach everything. As a birder, I find them fascinating. As an amateur musician, I find them delightfully accurate.
Oh, I wondered what was going on! Thankyou! There’s going to be some disappointed people when my newsletter goes out tomorrow and they realise I only find one good thing every three years. Though, pony girl as I was, I do know my horse markings and also, due to some kind of black-beauty type book, how Victorian villains would create the preferred face markings (fictionally at least. I hope it didn’t really happen)
Cough cough pretty sure you encountered the horse markings in my newsletter when you said you were going to pinch them for this? tho maybe Lucy wrote about them too. Everyone should write about them.
Oh, love me some specialist jargon. Horse markings, who knew?
Can I also recommend the unprepossessingly titled Dictionary of Dry Goods (1892) for a wallow in historical textile terminology - dimity, kersey, mungo, union cassimere, warmus...ah, where are they now...
Snif and Snuf...how marvelous. Thank you!
I heartedly recommend “Into the Tangled Bank” for a sanity boost in a stressful world.
I have all the books and often recommend them to friends. I love the humor with which you approach everything. As a birder, I find them fascinating. As an amateur musician, I find them delightfully accurate.
Bees eh. Always more amazing than I already think
Into the Tangled Bank was beautiful, I didn’t know about the others, I was waiting for Flight, but added to my list.
Thank you for Snif and Snuf 😂
Oh, I wondered what was going on! Thankyou! There’s going to be some disappointed people when my newsletter goes out tomorrow and they realise I only find one good thing every three years. Though, pony girl as I was, I do know my horse markings and also, due to some kind of black-beauty type book, how Victorian villains would create the preferred face markings (fictionally at least. I hope it didn’t really happen)
Cough cough pretty sure you encountered the horse markings in my newsletter when you said you were going to pinch them for this? tho maybe Lucy wrote about them too. Everyone should write about them.
Snif and snuf 😍 so cute! Reminds me of this Pixar short that my kids love.
https://youtu.be/3sWpq81qlDE?feature=shared
All of your books look wonderful - adding many to my TBR list 💖
Love the cartoon, and "the kind of thing you might have seen once on Channel 4 in 1988" is a perfect description of the genre.
Love it
Oh, love me some specialist jargon. Horse markings, who knew?
Can I also recommend the unprepossessingly titled Dictionary of Dry Goods (1892) for a wallow in historical textile terminology - dimity, kersey, mungo, union cassimere, warmus...ah, where are they now...
https://chestofbooks.com/reference/Dictionary-of-Dry-Goods/index.html