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The Empty House
English: Second of the four illustrations included in the edition of Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by AC Doyle published in 1894 by A. L. Burt in New York. (Source: Wikipedia) Sherlock, season 3 begins on...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Room
squalid room for teachers in Korea at KNUE Nanjing, Presidential mansion Kokomo, Indiana‘s Seiberling Mansion 1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on...
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Travel Theme: Decoration
Art Institute Chicago Art Institute of Chicago Each week Ailsa invites bloggers to post photos based on her travel theme. This week the theme is Decoration. If you’d like to see more interpretations of...
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To Marry an English Lord
If you like Downton Abbey, you really should read Gail MacColl and Carol McD. Wallace’s To Marry an English Lord. I got the audio book from the library. The narrator had the perfect voice, elegant...
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The Moonstone
Told by a several different narrators, all with different personalities and motives, Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone entertains from start to finish. It begins with a family’s black sheep bequeathing a...
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Victoria, Episode 4
Jenna Coleman continues to win me over in Masterpiece’s (and ITV’s) Victoria. This week the main problem was poor Albert’s search for a role in the U.K. Naturally, he wants to be more than Mr....
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Poem of the Week
Ring Out , Wild Bells Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the...
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Victorian Slum House
I discovered the absorbing Victorian Slum House series last night and was blown away. It’s a British reality show, which like PBS’ Frontier House took a number of modern people and put them back in...
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Choriambics By Algernon Charles Swinburne Love, what ailed thee to leave life that was made lovely, we thought, with love? What sweet visions of sleep lured thee away, down from the light above?...
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