The history plays in particular read so much "Propaganda for the Queen! Shit the groundlings will be getting restless, comic interlude with extra dick jokes time!"

Thanks for this thread - it's let me give a nervous friend flying out there some reassurance and info on how to get help if needed.

Woo! I remembered the book by description but had forgotten the name, and now it is reading time!

A Horse Stories anthology whose name I can't remember. There was a mare who ran very fast so the bad guys were trying to steal her, and the solution was to hamstring her and release her so she could still be wild and free. It felt like condemning her to a slow and painful death instead.

This is cool! What does the K mean, it's not being the most cooperative term to google?

www.budgetbytes.com/buffalo-bean... - I double the buffalo sauce and use a frozen carrot/celery/onion mix for the base along with frozen garlic, so cooking is basically opening and mixing.

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Also, every now and then I dust this off, but for those of you who find writing reviews of books (or other things you’ve loved) difficult? I’ve got you.

We did a thing in the bookstore with little cue-cards, and it took *three* sentences (and was useful and helpful).

So, here we go.

yeh the whole narrative of hopelessness only serves the powerful.

Also picked over Bree's list. Not new, but it was convenient.

You don't have to have hobbies that involve consumption and collecting physical possessions. You can collect knowledge, shiny facts like a magpie archivist. You can collect skills.