Joy of Books

 

I’m pretty sure all this frolicking is exactly what happens in libraries and bookstores around the world after hours,

I just started a new book:  The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stewart. 

So far so good.

Read anything good lately?

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The Way I See It

 

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Downton Abby

 

The Cast

The Music

The Costumes

The Location

The Schedule

Okay. I admit it.

I am completely hooked.

 

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Our Funny English Language

 

Have you ever thought how difficult it must be to learn English?

This concept came to the forefront of my thinking when I started learning Arabic a few years back. At about that same time, Gage was learning how to truly read – not just recognize words. It was then that the complexity of our language took root in my mind as I observed him trudging such intricacies as homographs and homophones.

Take for instance these two examples. {In their original form, they are rather lengthy so I trimmed them up a bit.}

We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert in the desert.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
The bandage was wound around the wound.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in my clothes I shed a tear.

Dearest creature in creation,

Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,

Dies and diet, lord and word,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain.

(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)

You must be careful how you speak:

Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,

Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.

Blood and flood are not like food,

Nor is mould like should and would.

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,

And then singer, ginger, linger,

Won’t it make you lose your wits,

Writing groats and saying grits?

Finally, which rhymes with enough,

Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?

Hiccough has the sound of cup.

My advice is to give up!!!

And with that, I am content to intimate the content of this message to you my intimate friends. {grin}

 

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Thank you, Amy, for the latter poem!

Images above found here and here

Artistic Chocolate Drizzles

 

Take the worlds best food – chocolate.

Add an artistic heart.

And this is what you get.

Aren’t these beautiful?

Chase and I had to give these a go since we were in charge of Family Home Evening treats last night.

That’s a cursive “G” for Gish and a flower.

Okay, so maybe not as esthetically pleasing as the originals from Delia Randall at Delia Creates….

..but oh so enjoyable to make. And easy peasy too.

Here’s how:

Melt your favorite chocolate chips.

Pour slightly cooled chocolate into a quart sized freezer bag.

Cut a small hole in the bottom corner and start drizzling any shape onto a sheet of wax paper that your chocolate loving, artistic heart desires.

The chocolate will lose its shine as it cools, but not its shape.

We put ours in the freezer to set quickly and they turned out deliciously perfect in 20 minutes.

Carefully peel them off once they’ve hardened and perch them on top of your favorite ice cream.

Great for cake toppers too.

Enjoy.

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All the really good images from Delia Creates.

The Way I See It

 

 

 

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