Weekend Links

 Welllllll, it has been a week!  A week that feels like 10 years.  I think  we deserve to snuggle down in the Ritz Bar, have a Hemingway Daiquiri (or whatever you like), and read some distracting articles.  What have you been doing this week?  read anything good?  (I'm just finishing Dan Jones new bio of Henry V...)

What French women are shopping for

Newly discovered Lavinia Fontana portrait discovered

Virginia Woolfe's birthday was last week!  (along with mine, different years, natch)  Look for a Heroine of the Weekend post on her next week

It was also Burns Night!  I celebrated with a few Scots friends with some bagpipe music and copious bottles of Laphroaig, which might by why I am a wee bit slow today...

A new TV drama is coming about the tragic Queen Ena, if you need a "Crown" fix

A ranking about the best Girl Scout Cookies (I am a Thin Mint girly myself, but would never say no to a Tagalong or Samoa...)

Dame Joan Plowright died (Enchanted April is one of my very favorite movies, and if you haven't seen "Tea With the Dames" go and watch it right this moment!)

LA Animal organizations that could use your help right now

And more ways to help

An exhibit of Sargent portraits of the "Dolla Princesses"  (I'm very interetested in this as I dive into a Gilded Age book...)

Weekend Links

 Happy almost-February!  I can't believe how fast this month has gone.  We've been moving into a new house, and that's taken over most of my life lately.  There are still books piled on the floor waiting for new shelves, and a few hiccups to deal with (yay, washing machine leak!).  But the dogs love their new yard, and I'm getting organized.

Here are a few fun things to read, if you also need some distraction....

60 of the best fashion moments in film

Oldest known Scottish tartan can be worn again!

This week was Burns Night

Albuquerque tearoom makes Yelp's top 100 list  (I love this place!)

Drinking tea might slow aging!

Northern Exposure is finally available for streaming!  (one of my favorite shows)

Fun Weekend Links

 Hope you are all having a lovely Saturday!  It's cold here, but I am snuggled under the quilts working on some book revisions, and going to the content mine to find stuff for us to read....

Pride and Prejudice was published on this day in 1813!

7 items you should always buy vintage

30 historical mystery series

Elizabethan book pirates (sadly, this is nothing new...)

Women warriors who served wine on the battlefield

Last week was Burns Night

And Edith Wharton's Birthday

What was the White Ship Disaster?

The new Renaissance of feminist bookstores

Burns Night

 No haggis here, but there may be a wee dram later!

 

O my Luve is like a red, red rose
   That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
   That’s sweetly played in tune.
So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
   So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
   Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
   And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
   While the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve!
   And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,

   Though it were ten thousand mile.