The Girdle of Melian

one fishing! That is, I'm on vacation! So I'm updating this travel questionnaire -- the previous post also features a brand new joke ! And some Agatha Christie vocabulary. New comments in square brackets. What's your favourite place to visit in your own country? There're a lot of places I haven't seen yet! The Yukon, the extreme north of Quebec, Gaspé, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island! So far I've enjoyed visiting Fredericton, New Brunswick, and all along the St Lawrence Seaway. As for Turkey, I love every place along the Aegean Sea. [In Switzerland, I haven't been further than Zurich yet! Would love to see Lucerne, and St Gallen, and the Reichenbach Falls, and so much more!] What about your favourite place abroad? Wales and Yorkshire. And probably the Scottish Highlands, but I haven't been there yet! [No change here, though I'd like to see more of Italy, Sweden, Croatia, and Germany] What's the best thing you've ever eat

elp! I'm falling behind! I need to catch up on blog commenting, on photo album printing, on the sorting of various lists... But the sun is finally out! After weeks and weeks of rain, it's finally swimming weather (or what I call swimming weather: 30C and sunny!). So I'm going to repost a few song and music blogfests! Songs for the International Day of Happiness 30-Day Song Challenge Songs of Summer Blogfest Top Ten Countdown Music Blogfest Music By Decade And here is the first playlist I ever created on YouTube... ...and the most recent playlist! And three playlists by year 1983 1985 1987 Do you have any playlists? Please link to your favourites!

rompts! Deadloch! Swans! Quaintly Fig has some fun Our Flag Means Death story prompts. They could work for any story, really! Rolling the dice (as it were) is so fun! Here are the three latest ones I landed on: Avast Ye! prompt Happiness Happens prompt Random prompt I love the show Deadloch ! Yesterday, the news broke -- Season 2 is a go ! One of my favourite characters on Deadloch is played by Madeleine Sami , who plays Archie in season 2 of Our Flag Means Death! We've finally had some summer weather, perfect for yoga at the beach! Swans! Do you enjoy writing (or drawing or anything!) based on prompts?

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ne year on, we reach the end of Larksong ! Larksong is set in a lakeside town on the outskirts of Montreal, in July 1914. Here's where it all began... In chapters 1 to 10, Alice arrives at the family cottage following her grandmother's funeral, to take care of her grandmother's aviary--only to find that her parents have already leased the cottage to another prominent Montreal family. The only way she can have one final summer in her favourite place is to surreptitiously take on the role of governess to the two young girls. Gradually, she bonds with them, and eases into her feigned position. Then she learns that their older brother George, laid up with a broken leg, will be staying as well, for rest and recuperation. Upon his arrival, Alice keeps up her governess role as best she can. She finds George attractive and interesting--but also unbearably entitled. They can't seem to stop arguing over everything--including the rumours of political events in Europe.