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Long Tall Sally - Little Richard

hammer metres, after swigging

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Tall In The Saddle ~ Joan Armatrading

She gives very good and detailed instructions and many of the patterns are suitable for beginners. I love her blankets and have made a great many over the years 😊

Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle - Gene Autry

My son has a new favourite called 'There's a Bear in your Book' by Tom Fletcher. This book is unusual in that it is quite interactive. You have to shake the book, flap the book, rock the book, and imagine sheep, all in order to get the bear ready for bed and off to sleep. I alsk bought him another Julia Donaldson book called The Highway Rat. It reminds me of a poem, but I cannot remember which. Maybe it is The Owl and the Pussycat.

Puss 'n' Boots - Adam Ant

These Boots Are Made for Walking - Nancy Sinatra (Walkin' My Baby Back Home ~Nat King Cole....love this song by Nat King Cole and also love the version by Johnny Ray, who I believe had the original.)

Ozzy Osbourne, Last Rites. Companion to the Daoud and sent to me through the post by a friend of mine.

Walking back to happiness - Connie Francis

Oh what a lovely website, I'm going to follow her on FB, I'm desperately trying to learn how to crochet and made a stripey blanket in double crochet but that's my limit! Her colours are lovely and she's made me want to read Brambly Hedge even more,especially the winter one! Maybe it's a nostalgia thing, as she says there's something very comforting about them, I like to think of Jill Barklem as the Essex equivalent of Beatrix Potter, and it's a shame the books aren't as widely known. Good luck with the blanket, keep us informed of your progress!

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I follow Lucy from Attic 24 and she has designed a blanket using Bramley Hedge illustrations as her inspiration. I'm not using this pattern and I'm using several different colours in my blanket, but thought you might like to see this 😊 https://attic24.co.uk/posts/2025/10/08/storyteller-blanket-inspiration/

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Walkin' My Baby Back Home ~Nat King Cole

Near the end of the book I particularly liked the one line for Mr. Bennet – "He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected." In so few words, Austen again gives, or reinforces, an account of his dry playfulness and mischievous eccentricity. Again (like so many times before this), this made me burst into thunderous laugh (there was no danger of raising alarm with or eye brows of, anyone near me – but whether or not this is the case it does not matter).

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Songs of the Wandering Scholars by Helen Waddell Now must I mend my manners And lay my gruffness by. The earth is making merry, And so, I think, must I. The flowers are out in thousands, Each in a different dress. The woods are green and like to fruit, The earth has donned her grassy fleece, And blackbirds, Jackdaws, magpies, nightingales Shouting each other down in equal praise. This is an examination of lyric poetry (published in 1927), sung and said, sacred and profane between the fourth and thirteenth centuries: the bulk being between the tenth and twelfth centuries. There is a good deal of poetry in this as well as analysis. Many of the wandering scholars were clerics, many were troubadours, also known as goliards. Much of the poetry in here was translated by Waddell herself. The reader is introduced to some obscure poets and lyricists: most of whom I had not heard of. Some of the clerical ones I had heard of: Bernard of Clairvaux, Peter Abelard and the later Roman poets like Boethius and Virgil. Some felt familiar: the following reminded my of Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral: O Spring the long-desired, The lover’s hour! O flaming torch of joy, Sap of each flower, All Hail! O jocund company Of many flowers, Of many-coloured light, All hail, And foster our delight! The birds sing out in chorus, O youth, joy is before us, Cold winter has passed on, And the Spring winds are come! On the whole I enjoyed this, particularly the lyrics that related to the natural world, but the whole was fascinating and I learnt a lot. You can tell this is an older publication as one of the original reviewers was C S Lewis. 8 out of 10 Starting The Disinherited by Perez Galdos

Sugar baby love - The Rubettes

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A Spoonful Of Sugar ~ Julie Andrews

Funnily enough I was reading about Dr Snow- the cholera Dr...in Elif Shafak's There are Rivers in the Sky this weekend. Great book incidentally.

Sugartime - The McGuire Sisters

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