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Ok Aussie Secret Santa recipients, where the bloody hell are you? It‘s most definitely Christmas Eve here and I‘ve opened my beautiful #aussiesecretsanta parcel from @Freespirit
Will you look at these gorgeous gifts 👀🎁? Thank you Sally & thank you @CarolynM for organising this year 🙏.
Come on now, it‘s show and tell time…

I think Nancy Mitford‘s life and family are fascinating, and I wanted to read this book because it upset her family when it was published, especially the Nazi sympathizer members. She refused to let it be reprinted in her lifetime, partly because of the mediocre sales numbers and reviews, but mainly because she wanted to keep the peace within her family. I bailed. She‘s a good writer but the story and characters just didn‘t keep me interested.

Traveling south always makes me nostalgic for this sweet series about a Episcopalian priest in North Carolina. Since we were in the Georgia islands last week I returned to this one which has our preacher filling in on the coast.

My wild Friday night continued

Friday in the couch with a warm blanket and a cat.

A good way to relax as we peek into the lives of Jan Karon‘s Mitford people. Lacey and Dooley are finally getting married! They plan to have an old-fashioned country wedding, but a few surprises are on their way.

This is an add-on to one of my favorite series about the village of Mitford, with collected wisdom from one of the main characters Father Tim 🩷

“Middle age is when you‘ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”Ogden Nash

#Feast #HumbleHarvest @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Sweet Violet is the last of the litter to find a home - she tries the bakery, plant nursery, and grocery; but at last she finds her home at a pleasant little bookshop. The children love this for a bedtime story each time they visit 🐱📚💙

#Kitten #SummerSpecial

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I don‘t know what the Mitford family found so offensive about this book; they don‘t particularly come out of it looking bad. Diana and Unity are called Nazis and pro-fascists — which they were — but Jessica cannot hide her sympathy and love for Unity. Nancy comes off as a little mean and not very serious. But the truth is they aren‘t in the book much. The memoir covers Decca‘s life from her childhood to when her first husband left for the war.