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Course information
Entry requirements
UCAS code
Entry requirements
A-level: BBB
IB: 33 points overall with Three HL subjects at 655
3 years full-time or 4-6 years part-time
Course overview
Examine the formation of the American literary aesthetic, and the critical concepts and ideologies that shape the American nation, through the study of a varied range of literary and critical works from both sides of the Atlantic.
Why study BA English & American Literature at Goldsmiths?
- Gain an understanding of the similarities and differences between English and American literature by immersing yourself in the history and culture of the two countries.
- You won't just look at the classics. Although you'll be reading texts by American heavyweights from the established literary canon, you'll also be looking at literature that showcases a different experience of America. This includes Native American and African American fiction, and the beat poets.
- You'll have access to probably the best collection of American materials in the country, at Senate House Library.
- London is full of literary inspiration, from theatres and libraries to coffee shops where you can curl up with a book. Read our guide to literary London.
Contact the department
If you have specific questions about the degree, contact Dr Caroline Blinder.
What you'll study
Over the course of the degree you'll:
- cultivate an understanding of the main cultural, historical and political concepts underpinning America and its literatures
- be introduced to selected works spanning literary history from Homer to the present day
- be given a grounding in the methods and terms used in the analysis of literary and non-literary texts
- have the opportunity to familiarise yourself with either the short story genre, or with the genre of poetry, sharpening your interpretative skills through close reading and teaching contributions from practising poets
- examine a selection of major American writers from the 1830s to the 1880s, and how they were active in describing, shaping, criticising and contesting the emerging American nation
- trace the emergence of modern America, encompassing the years which saw both mass immigration and the growth of urban centres, the wealth of the twenties and the poverty of the thirties, the entrenchment of racial prejudice in the South, and the cultural flowering of the Harlem Renaissance
- complete a dissertation
You'll also be able to choose option modules from the wide range available within the Department.
PLEASE NOTE: At Level 5 at least 30 credits must be chosen from those designated by the Department as encompassing pre-1800 literature, and a pass in both Inventing the Nation and the Level 6 Dissertation is compulsory for award of the degree.
Year 1 (credit level 4)
You take four modules (120 credits in total):
|Year 1 modules
|Module title
|Introduction to American Literature and Culture
|30 credits
|Explorations in Literature
|30 credits
|Approaches to Text
|30 credits
|Engaging Poetry
|30 credits
|Literature of the Victorian Period
|30 credits
Year 2 (credit level 5)
You take the following two compulsory modules, of which the first – Inventing the Nation – is core.
|Year 2 modules
|Module title
|Inventing the Nation: American Literature in the mid-19th Century
|30 credits
|Further Studies in American Literature and Culture
|30 credits
You also take two modules chosen from the range of options available within the Department. You must take at least 30 credits from modules encompassing pre-1800 literature.
The modules on offer may differ from year to year, but some examples of modules recently on offer include:
|Module title
|Drama and Transgression: From Prometheus to Faust
|30 credits
|European Cinema
|30 credits
|Literary London
|30 credits
|Literature of the English Renaissance
|30 credits
|30 credits
|Post-Victorian English Literature
|30 credits
|Sensibility and Romanticism: Revolutions in Writing and Society
|30 credits
|30 credits
|Work Placement (English)
|15 credits
Year 3 (credit level 6)
You complete the following:
|Module title
|The Emergence of Modern America: American Literature 1890–1940
|30 credits
|BA (Hons) English & American Literature Dissertation
|30 credits
You also take modules worth a total of 60 credits chosen from the range of Level 6 options available within the Department (a rotation of single-term half-modules is also available at Level 6).
The modules on offer may differ from year to year, but some examples of modules recently on offer include:
|Year 3 option modules
|Module title
|Caribbean Women Writers
|30 credits
|Creating the Text
|30 credits
|30 credits
|Approaches to Language and the Media
|15 credits
|Modern American Fiction
|30 credits
|Modern Poetry
|30 credits
|Modernism & Drama (1880-1930)
|30 credits
|The Art of the Novel
|30 credits
|Oedipus: Myths, Tragedies and Theories
|30 credits
|Postcolonial Literatures in English
|30 credits
|Studies in Literature and Film
|30 credits
|Literature of the English Renaissance
|30 credits
|Narratives of the Great War (1923-1933)
|15 credits
|Work Placement (English)
|15 credits
Please note: a pass in both Inventing the Nation and the Level 6 Dissertation is compulsory for award of the degree.
Teaching style
This programme is mainly taught through scheduled learning - a mixture of lectures, seminars and workshops. You'll also be expected to undertake a significant amount of independent study. This includes carrying out required and additional reading, preparing topics for discussion, and producing essays or project work.
The following information gives an indication of the typical proportions of learning and teaching for each year of this programme*:
- Year 1 - 15% scheduled learning, 85% independent learning
- Year 2 - 13% scheduled learning, 87% independent learning
- Year 3 - 10% scheduled learning, 90% independent learning
How you'll be assessed
You'll be assessed by a variety of methods, depending on your module choices. These include coursework portfolios, long essays, examinations (various timescales and formats) and dissertation. The dissertation must be passed for the degree to be awarded.
The following information gives an indication of how you can typically expect to be assessed on each year of this programme*:
- Year 1 - 38% coursework, 63% written exam
- Year 2 - 73% coursework, 28% written exam
- Year 3 - 100% coursework
*Please note that these are averages are based on enrolments for 2018/19. Each student's time in teaching, learning and assessment activities will differ based on individual module choices. Find out more about how this information is calculated.
Credits and levels of learning
An undergraduate honours degree is made up of 360 credits – 120 at Level 4, 120 at Level 5 and 120 at Level 6. If you are a full-time student, you will usually take Level 4 modules in the first year, Level 5 in the second, and Level 6 modules in your final year. A standard module is worth 30 credits. Some programmes also contain 15-credit half modules or can be made up of higher-value parts, such as a dissertation or a Major Project.
Download the programme specification, for the 2019-20 intake. If you would like an earlier version of the programme specification, please contact the Quality Office.
Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Entry requirements
We accept the following qualifications:
A-level: BBB
International Baccalaureate: 33 points overall with Three HL subjects at 655
Access: Pass with 45 Level 3 credits including 30 Distinctions and a number of merits/passes in subject-specific modules
Scottish qualifications: BBBBC (Higher) or BBC (Advanced Higher)
European Baccalaureate: 75%, including a strong grade in English Literature
Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H2 H2 H2
Additional requirements
Grade B in A-level English Literature (or Language and Literature) is required; A-level General Studies is not accepted.
International qualifications
We also accept a wide range of international qualifications. Find out more about the qualifications we accept from around the world.
If English isn't your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme. If you need assistance with your English language, we offer a range of courses that can help prepare you for degree-level study.
Fees & funding
Annual tuition fees
These are the fees for students starting their programme in the 2020/21 academic year.
- Home/EU - full-time: £9250
- Home/EU - part-time: £4625
- International - full-time: £16390
If your fees are not listed here, please check our undergraduate fees guidance or contact the Fees Office, who can also advise you about how to pay your fees.
If you're an international student interested in studying part-time, please contact our Admissions Team to find out if you're eligible.
If you are looking to pay your fees please see our guide to making a payment.
Additional costs
In addition to your tuition fees, you'll be responsible for any additional costs associated with your course, such as buying stationery and paying for photocopying. You can find out more about what you need to budget for on our study costs page.
There may also be specific additional costs associated with your programme. This can include things like paying for field trips or specialist materials for your assignments. Please check the programme specification for more information.
Funding opportunities
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries, and our careers service can also offer advice on finding work during your studies. Find out more about funding your studies with us.
The skills you'll develop
Our degrees open up a wide range of careers by developing critical and analytical skills, proficiency in assessing evidence, the clear expression of ideas, and the ability to bring together insights from a range of subjects – all of which are attractive to a variety of employers. You will learn to solve problems, to think critically and creatively, and to communicate with clarity.
Our graduates have a good employment record: professions include publishing, journalism, PR, teaching, advertising, civil service, business and industry, European Union private sector management and personnel work, and the media. You can read more about the careers options open to you once you graduate on our English and Comparative Literature careers page.
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In the last 24 hours #FreeBacon has taken over social media.
A brief report published in The Lancet on Monday by the World Health Organization (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) summarized the latest IARC Monograph, volume 114. The topic of this new volume: red and processed meat.
(get the summary report from The Lancet here..free article if you enter your email address)
As with a lot of new research and guidelines, the media has taken this lengthy report and turned it into a few shocking titles to attract, and scare, readers and viewers: "Hot dogs, bacon, processed meat linked to cancer"- USA Today and "Meat is linked to higher cancer risk..." - NYTimes
But what is the science behind this report? Should we be worried? Should we stop our daily bacon habit?
The IARC is an interdisciplinary group of scientists who evaluate the carcinogenicity (cancer causing ability) of everything from tobacco smoke, to chemicals, to pollution. They assign a risk classification and publish info in a Monograph, most are available on their website.
Before we get into the details lets talk about their classifications:
- Group 1- Carcinogenic to humans
- Group 2A- Probably carcinogenic to humans
- Group 2B- Possibly carcinogenic to humans
- Group 3- Not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans
- Group 4- Probably not carcinogenic to humans.
On their website they explain how they examine research and determine the appropriate classification in their Preamble. They state that their classifications refer ONLY to the strength of evidence that an exposure to a substance is carcinogenic and NOT the extent, or potency, of its cancer causing activity.
What does this mean? If there are enough research studies that positively link a certain substance to cancer then a Group 1 classification is given. The classification does not quantify the amount of exposure to the substance that would lead to cancer, only that they are associated with each other. For a Group 2 classification, a substance may have a few studies that show association with cancer, but a few that do not. Again, the IARC stress that this classification is not meant to quantify the how much.
How did meat measure up?
Processed meat, encompassing salted, cured, fermented, smoked, preserved meats, received a Group 1 classification. Red meat received a Group 2A classification.
It sounds scary...but based on the IARC's own definitions for criteria for classifications should we be? And should we really be using this information to make diet recommendations?
The answer: NO!
The Lancet summary outlines more information on the types of studies examined by these scientists, it included mostly epidemiological studies. Epidemiologic studies are used to understand and discover patterns in health and disease. In particular, the report states that the committee considered studies to be the best if they separated processed and red meat data and used validated food questionnaires.
From a nutrition and dietetics research standpoint, epidemiological studies offer little in terms of use for diet recommendations. Why? Because as the definition states, they are meant to discover patterns, they are not cause and effect. It is difficult to accurately portray dietary habits through a questionnaire, and it is known that on food intake frequency questionnaires responses are directly related to how many foods are listed. For example, if I fill out a food frequency questionnaire on a list of 500 foods and my sister fills out a questionnaire with a list of 200 foods, it will seem that I eat more than her simply because I had more options to select, when in fact we eat the same amount.
Phew... still with me? Sorry for the research terms but it's important!
For processed meat, 12 of 18 studies (of different types) found that intake was associated with cancer. They found that intake of 50g per day can increase colorectal cancer risk by 18%.
For red meat, 14 of 29 different types of studies found an association with cancer.
Now what?
Remember, these Monographs are not meant to make direct diet recommendations. Their FAQs help explain more. Also remember that the studies analyzed were mostly epidemiological. For red meat, just as many studies showed no association with cancer, as showed association. This suggests confounding factors, bias, and a lot more research to be done. A lot of other research is out there, too, including THIS very recent (May 2015) meta-analysis that found no dose-response between red meat and colorectal cancer and a weak association at best.
Should you change what you eat?
Meat is full of protein, natural fat, B vitamins, iron, and zinc, it is a real food. Red meat is an excellent protein choice in your diet, if you are a meat eater, please don't give that up.
But is processed meat "bad" for you? Yes, too much of it is! Don't get crazy about this (2 slices of bacon is about 50 g, as the study suggests), but eating too much of any processed food is bad for you. When it comes to eating processed meats such as bacon, sausage, and lunch meats, choose nitrate/nitrite free varieties. Nitrates form carcinogenic compounds in the body and this has been shown and studied in animals and humans. Buying uncured, nitrate free bacon gives you a processed meat option you can enjoy without guilt, or fear. I like Applegate Farm's brand, Nature's Promise Brand (Giant and Stop & Shop line), Trader Joe's, anything at Whole foods, Oscar Meyer Uncured line. Again, just look out for the words "uncured" and "nitrate free." Remember, the term "natural" means nothing. If the word nitrate or nitrite is in the ingredient list then pass, or enjoy once in a while. If cured processed meat is preferred, or more economical, then try to avoid daily intake.
Although I highly recommend uncured and nitrate free bacon, I would rather you eat half of a pack of cured bacon every morning than eat a giant bowl of cereal every morning. Obesity and diabetes are the chronic diseases that plague our country and don't show any signs of letting up. They lead to cardiovascular disease and kidney disease. What is the driving force? Sugar. Sugar is also the preferred fuel for cancer cells. So put things in perspective, focus on eating a balanced meal with protein, fat, and carbohydrates, and avoid processed foods as much as possible.
Eat real food.
P.S. If you live in the Baltimore area be on the lookout for info about my first every TV spot this Saturday, LIVE where I will be talking about this meat confusion!


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Alice Munro, "Too Much Happiness"
Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro
Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
Alice Munro is one of those rare literary icons who has the distinct reputation as a crossover writer. She is admired by academics for her literary sensibilities, the mainstream for her easy-to-identify-with characters, and fiction writers who continue to be amazed at her ability to construct a strong story out of what Hollywood would consider to be the uneventful and ordinary—an impossible judgment to be made after reading "Free Radicals" and "Dimensions" in Munro's latest collection, Too Much Happiness.
Given the fact that short-story collections are not as popular as novels in the publishing world, Munro's continuing popularity is indeed an enigma wrapped up in a mystery. Her loyal followers are always excited when a new collection of stories arrives at a bookstore or on Amazon. And they will not be disappointed in Too Much Happiness.
I suppose I'll be violating all kinds of Writing-101 standards here by jumping in and taking Munro to task for attempting to write a kind of shorter version of Doctor Zhivago in "Too Much Happiness," the last story in the collection. Munro tries too hard in this story to fictionally recreate Sophia Kovalevsky, a nineteenth century Russian mathematician, novelist (treated as an afterthought), and strong-willed precursor to the age of all those twentieth century feminists who were able to break the glass ceiling of male-dominated professions.
In an afterward to the story, Munro admits being captivated by all the research she did. However, I literally felt I was on some roller coaster ride with an MFA graduate student trying to put together a story for a Phd thesis after plowing through stacks of note-cards filled with random facts and dates.
Sophia, of course, is a somewhat engaging character flitting around on trains from Paris to Stockholm, accepting an award for her work in mathematics, mentoring with an old professor, marrying two older men, having a child, lecturing, writing novels, remembering the past.
But, as a stiff, sexless Chekhovian persona, shattering the glass ceiling of a male-dominated profession, she presents a disappointing contrast to Munro's other characters throughout the collection who, in my judgment, lead modern complex lives of quiet desperation. Sophia, quite frankly, is just far too retro to be able to compete with the more flesh-and-blood characters of the other stories.
That being said, if I were to categorize this latest collection of stories, I would say that Munro has a sharp-edged sense of the gothic, of unpredictable and subtle transformations, and of the real flesh of human relationships. There is an almost embarrassing honesty about her characters that will never become a conversation piece of a bourgeois cocktail party. And she is not about to pontificate about the glories of upward mobility or rugged individualism. Her characters often live in the repetitive world of their own commonness in spite of their educations or their sensitivities.
At the risk of sounding politically correct, I would hazard to say that Munro's stories have a very distinct Canadian sensibility—no crisis is ever at the screaming decibel level, her tragic characters seldom suffer any epic falls from grace, and disillusionment over the unattainability of the ideal is never portrayed at a nihilistic level. Her characters endure, saddened and somewhat tainted by their tragedies; however, they never decompose into despair. That of course is the essence of Munro's narrative world: tragedy without hopelessness.
Except for the last story, there isn't a narrative in this collection that doesn't open up so many of the wounds of just being alive.
In "Dimensions," we are given a character who remains perversely loyal to a husband. She continues to visit him in prison until a serendipitous moment opens her up to a breath of life she vicariously discovers through someone else (I could have been far more generous in revealing exactly what happens, but I'll leave the specific spoiler details for the reader to discover). The central character has enslaved herself in the grim world of undeserving loyalty and, for the most part, numbs herself to the tragic life she has inherited from her husband. Her epiphany, if you can call it that, has a razor-sharp suddenness to it but, to her credit, the author refuses to bask in any long-winded analysis of the character's swift change of heart. Like life, an opportunity arrives, we react to it quickly, case closed.
"Child's Play," "Face," and "Deep-Holes" are wonderful youth narratives that come to full bloom for the characters much later in life.
Having taught young adults for most of my career, I was intrigued by "Deep Holes" for its challenging portrayal of a silent, rebellious teenager who breaks out on his own to pursue a radically austere self-discovery journey in the big city. The brief and awkward conversation with his mother, after many years of silence, cuts at the edge of ambiguity that most of us, as parents, would probably experience (we would like to believe we would react with stunning clarity if one of our teenage children ran away; Munro knows better).
"Face" for me didn't have the gothic edginess of "Child"s Play," even though both stories are about early childhood experiences seen through the lens of time. In "Face," a child's innocent caricature of a birthmark becomes conflated with an act of self-mutilation that a reader can easily infer is drenched in guilt, self-hatred, and/or a desire just to feel.
Next to "Dimensions," "Child's Play" is Munro at her best. It is truly a mythic-narrative-of-return without any of the Hollywood-driven acts of redemption. Two childhood friends are at a beach, they participate in a gruesome act, time passes, one of the characters visits her unconscious and dying friend who leaves her a note to see a priest, she is unsuccessful, the childhood event is recalled. The official narrative is finished. The reader is left to pick up the pieces of a world in which there are no final acts of grief or catharsis.
"Child's Play" certainly has a shivering gothic quality to it and offers some competition to another Carson McCuller's look-alike, "Free Radicals." In a quick, Monarch-Notes version, a stranger comes knocking on a country house door. A woman occupant opens the door and invites the stranger in. In the course of a brief conversation and a showing of some photos, the stranger reveals a hair-raising event. In a quick unexplained survival moment, the woman talks her way out of a dangerous situation. The stranger leaves (the final spoiler details are obviously crucial to the story line, but I choose to withhold them here because they are too easy).
This is one of Munro's best examples of a nuanced story in which the reader is forced to make emotional connections or to imagine more than what the plot reveals. Suffice it to say that the woman's husband recently died and that she herself is dying of cancer. Those two facts alone can easily be juxtaposed to the emotional trauma of the woman being confronted with a psychopath. In having nothing else to lose, she experiences a volte face moment of fox-hole clarity that gives the entire issue of mortality such an explosive edge to it in this story.
When I first finished, "Wenlock Edge," I became fixated on the gothic moment of an older rich man feeding off a private fantasy world by soliciting younger women to have dinner with him naked and then to read to him. I then realized that that story was really quite incidental to the two female characters, the narrator, an English major, and her older roommate, Nina, a transient woman who abandoned her children and is living off the gratuities of the older man who is paying for her college. Nina convinces the narrator to participate in the old man's sexual ritual; in an act of sweet revenge for having seduced her cousin, the central character mails the cousin's address to the old man to whom Nina returns on her odyssey of going through as many men as she can.
Much like "Wenlock Edge," "Fiction" and "Some Women" get at the gritty, realistic details of relationships. "Wenlock Edge," of course, is at the wilder young-adult side of sexual adventures, while "Fiction" and " Some Women" have a much cooler, realistic grown-up quality that Munro is so good at portraying.
In "Fiction," the central character discovers the daughter-writer of her former husband who left her for the girl's mother. At a book-signing, she makes a bold attempt at having the girl remember a conversation she once had with the her, as her music teacher, by bringing in some special chocolates she assumed would jump-start the girl's memory. The girl, of course, has no clue.
In "Some Women," a dying character locks his door but makes sure only his wife is able to get the key, even though he develops an infatuation for his massage therapist. In the end, unlike the central character in "Dimensions," he chooses the old world of a committed relationship, even though we can only assume that his sexual drive doesn't go beyond an innocent kind of flirtation; he is, after all, close to dying (I initially wasn't quite sure why Munro chose to use another first-person narrator as a character until the final line, "I grew up, and old." It was clear to me, at that point, that Munro was mixing her usual themes of memory and mortality. The personal viewpoint of the narrator gives the story a strong sense of intimacy crucial to the story).
It is in "Fiction" and "Some Women" that we have the two-sides-of-the-same-coin issue of relationships that Munro fleshes out so poignantly in so many of her stories. These are modern relationships that are quick to change without notice. In "Fiction," a husband changes his interest to another women with the same kind of whimsy as the husband in "Free Radicals." Modernity does not require the grand-passion narratives of an Anthony and Cleopatra or a Medea; when there's a new woman or man on the block, interests shift. No big deal.
"Wood" is one of those small-town stories about an independent woodcutter terrified that he's going to have competition after listening to a friend's story about a group of men having a conversation about the same area where the central character was cutting wood. Earlier in the story, his wife quits her job and goes into a deep depression. The two stories resolve in a final scene when his wife rescues her husband from an accident and convinces him that there is little credibility to the bar story—drunks, she implies, will always be drunks.
Whether it's a small-town crisis, a quickly changing relationship, a moment of terror, the varied stages of human development from childhood to old age, or a poignant sense of memory and mortality, Munro is adeptly skilled at handling the whole schema of life's inevitabilities. Her world may not have the rush of passion of a Zhivago or an Equus, but its slowly simmering subtlety makes us want to go back and reread, to re-feel the sense that something very tender has just entered our world. If there was ever an old classic line that applies here, it would be truly safe to say that Munro's fictional world is indeed a small poetic cosmos of "emotion recollected in tranquility."
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I just finished Too Much Happiness. No one else I know has mentioned reading it, so I enjoyed sharing it with you. With the short story, I had the eerie feeling of reading a Russian lit story, or as though it was a translation. I would have liked it to be tighter. However, it was entertaining and well written. I was confused by Wood, a subtle adventure into the man's mind and fears. The wife's transition was unexpected and unexplained. The other stories were powerful and surprising. This was my first time reading Munro and I appreciate your insight. I will certainly be reading more.


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I remember trying everything to convince my parents to let me go. She was practically my sister. Our mothers were best friends! We had grown up together.
I tried it all.
But my parents stayed strong and reminded me that we don't do sleepovers.
They explained their reasons, like they had done so many times in the past and I brushed them off thinking none of those things could ever happen to me and that they were ruining my life!
And I'll admit it, I swore up and down that I would NEVER deprive my children of the oodles of fun I was sure I was missing out on by missing countless sleepovers throughout the years.
I would never be that mom.
Well now I am that mom---and frankly, I'm proud to be her.
I can remember the first time I ever held Hayley in my arms and sensing everything in my world shifting. My views were changing and I knew I would end up doing a lot of the things I swore I'd never do as a parent.
Things shift when you're holding that tiny infant in your arms and realizing you are responsible for them for the next 80+ years {give or take...}.
And one of those shifting things became sleepovers.
Now before I give you my own personal reasons for not allowing sleepovers, let me tell you that it hasn't been easy. Hayley's best friend is the daughter of my best friend and I trust their family wholeheartedly. I have felt conflicted at times thinking it'd be so fun to let them have sleepovers together. Lucky for me, my best friend views sleepovers the same way so the decision has always been no.
But here are my reasons for not allowing my children to have sleepovers:
- We don't do sleepovers because of my experiences. Even though I was only allowed to spend the night at my cousins' houses, I was a much different person there. I stretched a lot of my parents' rules while spending the night away from them. Although nothing extremely dangerous ever happened to me during sleepovers, I don't feel like the positives outweigh the negatives.
- We don't do sleepovers because body safety is extremely important to me. My children are young and they will be considered young in my eyes for a very long time. I have taught my children about good vs. bad touch but just teaching them about these things isn't enough. I need to create safe spaces for them where they feel free to create their own boundaries and this is much harder to do when they are not under my roof.
- Pornography. Sigh...Pornography and it's technological advances have made sleepovers more dangerous in my eyes. It is hard to know which homes are protected from this evil and which homes aren't. Children are all different and the average age of children first viewing pornography is around age 7. What. The. Hell. I mean, if that doesn't scare you, I don't know what could. It sure scares me!
- Even if I trust my friends, I cannot surely know everything about every person in their household. Children can be taken advantage of by an older brother, sister, cousin, or even a family friend. Just because I trust my friends does not mean I can trust everyone they know. There is no guaranteed stamp of approval for everyone in the household.
The fact is that supervision is much lower during sleepovers. Parents go to sleep and assume the kids are asleep all night too. But that isn't always the case.
I don't believe our world is more dangerous than it used to be. I believe we are able to fight against the danger and see it more than we used to and that makes us believe there is more of it.
I don't believe sleepovers are going to make or break my children's upbringing. They might hate me for a while {they've already expressed their opinions on this subject many times} but in the end, that is worth it for me because I will know that I've done everything in my power to keep them as safe as I possibly can. I'm more interested in keeping them safe than I am in being the cool parent. And I'm just going to assume that someday they'll thank me for that, just as I've done with my own parents.
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This week it's all about choice – we bring you two supercars that are the ultimate versions of cars we already have in our competition and two super hatchbacks which are the same – the top of the tree, the best of the be…. you get where I'm going with this. For this week's car choices, we went to the man who YouTubers and supercar connoisseurs alike go to when they want to buy a new car – Dean Bartle, General Manager of the awesome Redline Specialist Cars. If you haven't seen their stock, make sure you're sitting down when you do as there's everything you could ever want there from a Mini Cooper S to a Lamborghini Aventador SV Roadster, via McLaren 675LT and Ferraris galore. Dean let us know why he likes the cars he chose, then we find out more about the man himself…
We have sold quite a few Focus RS car since their first debut. We only buy the cars with all the right specification, as a hot hatch these cars are superb value for money with the AWD for added traction and the crackles and pops for the boy racers at heart we secretly know we all are. It really is good fun.
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I have nothing but good things to say about this car, this car really has it all from its aggressive looks to the sweet sound that comes from the exhaust. The overall looks of this car have been tastefully designed and really does turn heads! It feels quicker than the other hot hatches too (perhaps that's just the sound).
These are simply quite incredible when it comes to performance and handling of course, hence the incredible lap times that they had achieved at the famous Nürburgring. They are incredibly fast, however not the comfiest of cars. But they're designed to punish a track into submission so that can be forgiven.
Without a doubt one of my favourite cars of all time, sub 3 seconds 0-62, immense traction, comfortable, quiet and refined, typical great German build quality….in fact if you shut the door and listen carefully it sounds just like a golf…ha-ha. This to me is simply the best supercar on the market, and one that is very hard to beat. But I guess that's 50 years of making sports cars for you.
Now onto Dean himself – what makes him tick?
With a traffic cop for a dad, it was clear that Dean was destined for a life of high-speed.
"He came home with a prototype four-litre Granada Cosworth one day. The tyres were so wide you wouldn't believe. The sound was insane and there was nothing that it couldn't catch."
Of course, this was back in the days when a whale-tail Escort Cosworth was the car of choice for West Yorkshire Police.
"Every time dad was allowed to bring one of the cars home I'd spend hours washing and polishing it. I knew I'd work with cars one day and I couldn't go past a car showroom without pressing my nose to the glass and seeing what was inside."
Dean's move into car sales was as much about destiny as it was accidental.
"I bought a Citroen Saxo in 1995 and it was at the time when they were doing free insurance and free servicing. It made the package really appealing and essentially, I took a lot of my friends back there who also bought them on the strength of my experience. The sales manager was really impressed and offered me a job there and then."
Yet cars didn't come straight away. He was busy perfecting his singing voice as a redcoat.
"I was doing a lot of singing when I left school. I still do. But I think it's that confidence of standing up in front of 1,500 people which makes this job seem a doddle in comparison. If I can sing my heart out to a packed audience I can definitely talk to someone about cars. They're my passion."
Redline may be in a busy market but the company has carved out a niche of selling the best cars with the best spec.
"We buy the cars we love but they have to have something different about them. We don't want to see the stock that everyone else can get. We want the one-offs, the limited editions, the cars with every single possible extra. That's why people come from far and wide to buy from us."
A lot of Redline's customers know their cars, too.
"Later this afternoon I'm off to see a customer who just has a stunning collection," Dean says. "It's just got everything you could wish for, including the most amazing Ferrari 250 short wheelbase. We're selling to people who know their cars which is why we have to offer them the best out there."
What about for the rest of us who don't have bottomless pockets?
"You've got to buy clever," he said. "It's all about the right spec. Do your research and listen to the experts, but also keep an eye on the market. If you buy on impulse you will end up with a lovely car but if you buy clever you'll have a lovely car which doesn't lose any money."


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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Enormous Richard: the critics quoth
The Enormous Richard archive has been plundered for quotes in support of the pending worldwide digital release of our 1990 debut cassette, Why It's Enormous Richard's Almanac. According to yellowing documents mouldering in a Missouri basement, the following things have been said in print about Enormous Richard.
'exuberant, haystack-hiding, mischievous'
"The rope burns on their hands aren't so bad that they can't play their instruments. Mixing the bluesy twang of their kissing cousins like the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies and distantly inbred relatives like the Flat Duo Jets, Enormous Richard boasts a hearty dose of bluesy country twang and tongue-in-cheek, good-ole pickin' and grinnin' fun, like if Mojo Nixon fell clear off the Louisiana Hayride and landed plum on his head. It all breathes with an exuberant, haystack-hiding, mischievous boyish charm, like they know they shouldn't be saying or doing the things they're saying and doing, and they know they'll get their mouths washed out with soap for it, but that's not about to stop 'em at all from having their fun."
- CMJ (College Music Journal) New Music Report, Jan. 18, 1991
'humor, political discourse and charm'
"Bedded beneath the sheer insanity of the group's words lies a rich layer of humor, political discourse and charm. They speak to the small and large aspects of daily life, dissecting everything from the curiosities of Christ to canines in traffic - plus various girlfriends and their new haircut."
- Thomas Crone, Riverfront Times, Dec. 5, 1990
'a breath of fresh, reality-rooted air'
"In an era when even out-there "alternative" bands are more concerned with their haircuts and marketing plans than writing songs about stuff that matters, Enormous Richard is a breath of fresh, reality-rooted air."
- Kevin Roe, Sound Views (New York)
'funny as fuck'
"Enormous Richard, a funny as fuck six-piece "skuntry"-rock band from St. Louis, sing like Michael Hurley, sound like they tour in a haycart with one loose wheel, and give away free condoms in concert."
- New York Press, Oct. 2, 1991
'they'll accept food'
"The band's home-taped cassette probably costs a few bucks, but I think they'll accept food, gifts, girls' phone numbers or really earnest compliments."
- Orla Swift, Meriden (Conn.) Record Journal, June 4, 1991
'rare in these days of money-grubbing'
"Bands like Enormous Richard are rare in these days of money-grubbing, musically calculating and world conquering bands."
- Jeffrey Lee Puckett, Louisville Courier Journal
'stonking bouncey fun'
"You want stonking bouncey fun? Go for Enormous Richard, who claims he "Answers All Your Questions" and offers 50 minutes of Pogues-powered reel-around-the-maypole mayhem."
- Alternative Press
'swirling, frenetic crock-pot stew'
"A swirling, frenetic crock-pot stew of yelping Johnny Thunders-style rockabilly stomp, quirky Chilton-ian edgy pop and songs about stuff you never thought to write a song about."
- Kevin Roe, Sound Views (New York), April 1993
Polaroid is of Elijah Shaw (in Skeletor mask) and John Minkoff jamming in an Enormous Richard tour van.
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The PSPL5350 6 dB Power Divider provides excellent amplitude and phase performance power division from DC to frequencies over 40 GHz. The outputs are nominally attenuated by 6 dB. All ports are impedance matched to 50 Ω when both outputs are terminated in 50 Ω. Power dividers are built using a three-resistor network. The resistors have 1% tolerances, resulting in precise 50 Ω impedance matches at any port. This divider is engineered to provide excellent amplitude and phase symmetry throughout the operating range, regardless of port selection. Maximum division symmetry is obtained when port 1 is used as input, with ports 2 and 3 providing the divided signal output.
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Frequency responses from 40 MHz to 40 GHz, liniear sweep at 4 GHz/div
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>17 dB, 1 – 15 GHz
>12.5 dB, 15 – 40 GHz
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We continue to sing lustily and where appropriate, sensitively, everything (almost) from Paul Robeson to Elvis. We clap and sway (minimally for the less agile) to tunes like "The Saints".
We are still waiting to hear about the world tour. Rumour has it we will open at the Dagenham Cocoa Rooms!
During our coffee breaks, we air our irritations with modern life.
Please join us, all are welcome
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For each pound of Grizzly Blend sold, a percentage of proceeds goes to Vital Ground, a nonprofit land trust working to secure a future for these bears. Powerful symbols of nature wild and free, grizzlies lost 98% of their range south of Canada. Vital Ground conserves and connects habitat for remaining populations by purchasing properties and working with willing landowners to implement conservation protections. Proceeds help conserve key habitats that benefit great bears and neighboring species – and also human communities with economies tied to enjoyment of the great outdoors.
With partners like Montana Coffee Traders, Vital Ground has helped conserve and enhance nearly three-quarters of a million acres of homelands for the big, silvertipped bears, and for other wildlife in the mountain West, from elk and bull trout to swans and rare wildflowers.
A big Thank You to Montana artist Monte Dolack for the use of his "Great Bear" painting on the Grizzly Blend label. The desire to preserve, promote, and honor our wild heritage is a central theme in Dolack's work.


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Homily: January 11, 2015
BAPTISM OF OUR LORD, YEAR B; Rev. Theo Park
Well, the Christmas season may be over, but the arc of the story is not.
Today we start the season of Epiphany-tide and
as it does every year on the first Sunday after Epiphany.
the gospel story tells of the baptism of Jesus.
It does this to set the tone for the coming season:
having established the mystery of Jesus as a new light appearing in the world,
now we get down to brass tacks—how are we to live by that light?
So first we hear of Jesus coming into his own,
forming a sense of his spiritual identity and calling
and then choosing to act out of that identity.
Then for the next five weeks we will hear other stories
that reflect on how Jesus goes on to manifest God through his life,
and on how we are called to do the same as disciples of Christ.
And to reinforce that the importance of this theme in our community-story,
every year we set this Sunday aside as one of the appointed days for baptism
and the renewal of our baptismal covenant,
which our tradition understands as the cornerstone of our identity and spiritual growth, whether individual or corporate.
We give baptism a lot of weight in the Episcopal Church.
Officially, you cannot be elected to congregational leadership
without being baptized.
Officially, I cannot list you as a member in the annual Church census
if I don't have a record of your baptism; I must list you as "participating other."
And officially, although the Church at large is in disagreement over this,
if I do not know you to be baptized I am not allowed to give you communion.
Now both Gethsemane and I took a different position on that long ago,
but it is still the official position of the Church. so technically
any of you who are disgruntled with my leadership can have me brought up
on charges of "violating the doctrine and discipline of this Church."
So you see we take baptism very seriously.
Why? Why does the Episcopal Church so emphasize baptism?
We didn't always do so:
when that baptistery was created baptism was a private rite
that generally happened on Saturday or Sunday afternoon
with just the immediate family present.
So what changed?
Well to give you a short answer to the story:
the Episcopal Reformation that brought us the 1976 Book of Common Prayer.
From the 1930s forward the Church reexamined many of its practices
and much of its thinking on a variety of issues,
resulting in that "new" book and its renewed theology,
which was very different from the "old" book of 1928.
The 1976 book, in an attempt to recover the oldest Christian practices
and leave behind what had come to be seen as additions from the Middle Ages,
put Holy Communion and Baptism front and center
as the twin axes of communal Christian worship and identity.
In so doing the new book—and the majority that voted for it in General Convention—
reaffirmed our place as a Church in the catholic (meaning universal) tradition,
reformed, to be sure, but with roots in the apostolic age
(conforming to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, as we will shortly say)
and descending in an unbroken line of authority through the bishops of the Church.
Thus baptism returned to being a community act,
the central meaning of which is entrance into the Body of Christ,
as it had been in the earliest practice of the Church.
And the framers of the renewed rite emphasized its communal nature
by inviting the entire congregation to join in the renewal of the baptismal covenant,
at every baptism and on all appointed baptismal feasts.
Symbolically, God's act of grace, our response in strength.
I ask you to pay deep attention when we stand in a few minutes;
don't just mouth the words but let them sink into your hearts.
I want you to be aware that both for persons and for communities
the baptized life is the opposite of the undecided life.
Whether we are baptized as infants or as adults,
the baptismal life is a "yielded" way of life,
one that began when we were drowned in the baptismal waters,
and rose reborn in the Spirit.
After we were dried off and marked with oil as "Christ's own forever,"
what was left floating in the font was, in the words of author Scott Peck,
"the freedom of uncommitment."
After our baptism, aimlessness is no longer an option.
The decision for Christ—or, I should say, Christ's decision for us—
becomes "the first thing" in the new life of grace,
while everything else, though important, becomes secondary.
Baptism, we believe, puts life into proper perspective.
We have but one purpose: to express Christ to the world.
I'm sure you're aware that every community has a culture,
and every culture is driven by a value system.
One of the most common mistakes is not recognizing how our value systems shape us. People think that they can insulate themselves, that they're different. We're not.
So the relevant question in life becomes not "What will I do?" but "Who will I become?" What value system will you adopt,
and what will take on heightened importance in your life?
Because once you're rooted in a particular system
it's often agonizingly difficult to unravel yourself from its beliefs, practices, and rewards.
You'll be a lot happier in life if you aren't fighting the value system around you.
Find one that upholds a set of beliefs that you can really get behind.
Being in an environment of like-minded people
can have a powerful transformative effect.
This is one of the reasons so much emphasis was placed on identity work
during this transitional period at Gethsemane.
Because the issue is the same for a faith community as for individuals.
As I have laid out, the promises of the baptismal covenant are—on paper—
the core of our value system as Episcopalians,
intended to inform and shape our environment and our behavior.
I say "on paper" because often we express quite different values in real life.
It may be that the real values defining a parish system are conflict avoidance,
or fiscal conservancy, or power vested in an old-guard elite,
or passive-aggressive control, or…you get the picture.
None of those behaviors, I'm happy to say, seem to define us at Gethsemane,
although we've probably exhibited them all from time to time.
Are we then perfect? By no means!
It remains our work to deepen our identity as a community growing in Christ,
called to worship, to learn, and to serve, and to continue to ask
"Who will we become and how will we get there?"
This is a life-long process, individually and as a community.
It doesn't stop because you put an identity statement on paper for the diocese.
It won't stop when you have a new priest in the mix.
The kind of transformation that would conform us to the full stature of Christ
is a process of continual discernment,
of putting one foot in front of the other, spiritually speaking,
making ourselves over ever closer to the image of Christ.
Thus we are called, both as individuals and as a community,
to seek and nurture an ever-growing resonance in our life
with the teachings and actions of Jesus.
This is what the baptismal covenant seeks to express.
If this seems daunting, never forget
that as we come up from the waters of our baptism,
these words are meant for us:
You are my child, my Beloved; I am well pleased with you.
It is altogether likely that in growing up and as we say "maturing" that we forget this.
We forget ever hearing these words. We forget who we are and whose we are.
Sadder still, we often come to believe that this could not possibly
be God's word to me, here, now, today.
Yet to believe this is to separate our selves, our very self, from the love of God.
And to separate our self from the love of God is what our Baptismal service calls sin. This is perhaps our most fundamental sin:
to forget that we are God's Beloved; that God is well pleased with us.
Such forgetting is the beginning of so much that troubles us.
Such forgetting makes it nearly impossible
to follow and obey Christ as our Lord and Savior.
It takes a conscious effort to remember who we are and whose we are.
It takes daily reminders to accept our Belovedness.
It takes daily remembering, re-membering, to internalize this Good News of our baptism and make it a living force of God's Spirit alive within us and beyond us.
Listen now to this short passage from Henri Nouwen's little book, Life of the Beloved.
Listen to these words with great inner attentiveness as I read them
and then keep them in mind as we rise to make our vows.
At your center is a voice that says:
"I have called you by name, from the very beginning.
You are mine and I am yours. You are my beloved, on you my favor rests.
I have molded you in the depths of the earth
and knitted you together in your mother's womb.
I have carved you in the palms of my hands
and hidden you in the shadow of my embrace.
I look at you with infinite tenderness and care for you
with a care more intimate than that of a parent for an only child.
I have counted every hair on your head and guided you at every step.
Wherever you go, I go with you, and wherever you rest, I keep watch.
I will give you food that will satisfy all your hunger
and drink that will satisfy all your thirst.
I will not hide my face from you.
You know me as your own as I know you as my own.
You belong to me.
I am your father, your mother, your brother, your sister, your lover, your spouse.
Yes, even your child. Wherever you are I will be.
Nothing will ever separate us. We are one."
Turning in your prayer books to page 292, please stand as you are able.


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Friday, June 17, 2011
Wash day
Possibly my favourite ever vintage buy. Encapsulates many homey things that warm my heart, such as fresh linen, washing lines, hand-made embroidery, domestic history. $10 from Marrickville Markets.
Could stare at it for hours. Which may explain why I need new glasses.
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I can understand very easily why this little linen bag is a particular favourite of yours...those towels on the line...oh...how lovely.ReplyDelete
This is lovely - never been to the Marrickville Markets before! Might have to do so sometime...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 11:48 AM
i agree. it is totally divine. xReplyDelete
Gorgeous! And making washing just that little bit more enjoyable.ReplyDelete
You got yourself a good deal there! I love it too, it's (to me) reminisant of rural France, just need the smell of baking bread and the dappled sunshine through the grape vine to go with it!ReplyDelete
Have a lovely weekend,
I love it! It reminds me of my nan. I don't know why though she never had one. Maybe it's more the embroidery. I have many of her old doilies.ReplyDelete
Happy weekend to you and I hope you get lots of washing done given that the sun is out and about for a change!
Stephie x


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Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
Author: Yolanda Covington-Ward
Duke University Press, 2015
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series
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Winner, 2017 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award, presented by the Association for Africanist Anthropology
Winner, 2016 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, presented by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Finalist, 2016 Clifford Geertz Prize, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action.
Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis, a catalyst for social action, and as a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses on specific flash points in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dissent, and enforce power.
In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept through the Lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority.
Following independence, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko required citizens to dance and sing nationalist songs daily as a means of maintaining political control.
More recently, embodied performance has again stoked reform, as nationalist groups such as Bundu dia Kongo advocate for a return to precolonial religious practices and non-Western gestures such as traditional greetings.
In exploring these embodied expressions of Congolese agency, Covington-Ward provides a framework for understanding how embodied practices transmit social values, identities, and cultural history throughout Africa and the diaspora.
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Cool Stat: My ball collection matched my age at the end of this BP session.
With the Blue Jays in town it meant one thing, big time batting practice. I knew that I wanted to commit to ballhawking this year and so I chose this game to really try out some of my skills. I was able to get off work a little early, camp out at gate 6 in order to be the first one in left field (home run porch). plus my wife was meeting me there just before game time, so I didn't have to feel like I was holding anyone up, it was just going to be me having a fun time ballhawking before a nice night at the game… Well, it turns out that it was more of me just ballhawking and then we waited for a couple of hours in a rain delay before just giving up. We had to work the next day and I knew my wife was beyond bored and miserable, so the last thing I wanted to do was make her sleep deprived the next day.
Ball #1: As I said before, I was the first one in the gates and raced down into section 128. The Twins were wrapping up their BP and so I yelled at a group of pitchers to see if I could get a toss up. I recognized Anthony Swarzak in the bunch, but there was a guy next to him that I was unfamiliar with. I would later find out that it was a newer pitcher on the squad, PJ Walters. PJ had the ball and tossed it right to me. no more than 30 seconds in the section and I was on the board. At least I knew that I would not be shut-out, and I was also thinking that I might just get multiples and solidify (in my mind) my place as a real ballhawk. I still do not like the negative connotations with 'ballhawk' but I do enjoy the thrill of collecting Officially Licensed Major League Baseballs, so whatever that is, I'm that.
Ball#2: The Twins wrapped up their BP and a few balls were collected around me, but with a decent number of hawks (Jays fans) it was more likely that the ball had to be lined right to you than you being able to run a few sections over to catch a ball. I didn't fully listen to Zack Hample's advice, I parked myself in the first row, since I was the first one in, though i did get it right in the aisle to move easier. I figured with the high volume of people and the weird overhang of Target Field, it's actually better to be in the first couple rows of the 100-level in LF. As the jays took BP I had the easiest HR catch of my young career. The ball could not have been hit more directly at me. I had what felt like 2 minutes to cast an incredible amount of self-doubt ("you gotta move back", "move to the right/left", "you better catch this!", "don't drop it!", "don't lose it in the air", "someone's gonna bump you soon"), none of which came true, I followed it directly into my glove for the 2nd ball of the day. People half-heartedly applauded and I felt somewhat proud, and yet mocked; it was the simplest of HR grabs possible.
Ball Help: In an earlier post I mentioned that I do indeed "give balls away" but I do it in a way as to not touch the ball. This was a game where I did just that. While the Jays were taking BP I noticed that I kid next to me (4 or 5 years old) really wanted a ball. When he didn't get one from the Twins he was bummed. After 15 minutes of none through the Blue Jays portion, he was sure he wasn't going to get one. His dad was supportive, and tried to tell him to keep trying, but I knew that with the lack of a booming voice, his chances of getting one without going into his father's glove were nearly 0%. So as a ball rolled to the fence directly in front of us I started yelling at the Blue jays guys to come and get it and toss it up to this kid. After about 5 minutes someone finally came over, I kept yelling and asking with tons of 'pleases'. The guy looked up, tossed it to the kid and the kids father backed him up and made the catch for him. I know that without my voice and constant asking this ball would have likely been tossed to either a different fan with a loud voice, or just tossed back into the bucket of balls. The kid was overjoyed and his dad was proud of him. It was pretty cool seeing that magic happen. It's exactly what I tried chasing a few times with my own dad.
Ball #3: This would turn out to be my last of the night, but my first time I ever caught more than 2 balls in Target Field. I had already caught one in sections 128 and 130 on this day, it was only fitting that I added 129 to the mix. Unlike ball #2, I knew exactly who hit this one, Edwin Encarnacion. Also, unlike #2, I had to move quickly and didn't get this one on the fly, it was a section over and the person who appeared to have it ended up playing too shallow and had it hit the glove and land a couple rows behind them. It was a good thing that I 'backed them up', at least for my benefit. I had a toss-up, one on the fly, and then a jump-ball that felt like a real 'hawk ball' if there is such a ball. I still have never stolen a ball or gotten in someone's way for a ball, but this one was one of the less pretty ways to get a ball. Someone's gotta pick them up though, right?
My thank you list includes PJ Walters (and Anthony Swarzak, since those two seemed tight that game), the Blue Jays roster for the insane power they possess, and to the Target Field Grounds Crew. Obviously the stories above detail why I thanked those players, but the Grounds Crew at least made it a little entertaining to watch them cover and uncover the field. Plus, thank you to the meteorologist who let the teams take BP and not getting an trigger happy and cancelling it due to imminent storms on the horizon.


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To Plymouth to see Grace, Liz's old German teacher. And she is old, but still 'all there', slightly batty with a mischievous patter. It's nice how Liz has kept in touch with her. Inspiring teachers are never forgotten. (I can't say I've kept in touch with any of mine...).
There's a huge ferris wheel on the Hoe. What is it with big wheels? You used to only find them in fair grounds, now every status-conscious city wants a whopper. There's a huge one planned near our home in Beijing - the biggest in the world of course. For sheer design aesthetics though, the London Eye is still the one to beat.
Speaking of wheels, we got news from Beijing that our hamster has died. "Sad news is Snowy past away last week. It's a morning when Flut just open our gallery and he took yoghurt to feed her, but she slept in her room. Flut called her and she already died. So Flut wrapt her with rice paper and put her into a little box. She slept in the garden of Landmark now. But she looks placid and clean... Tell the girls: don't be sad, Snowy got so much love from them. So she must be a most lucky hamster in this world.:)".
The girls cried a bit but they'd been prepared for it. She was old in hamster terms. And she did get a lot of love from them.
Monday, July 15, 2013
RIP Snowy
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A four-season floral symphony in a snug-fitting bodysuit with long sleeves and mock-turtleneck. Deliciously soft and stretchy, impeccably elegant for work and parties yet as comfortable as loungewear. Slightly thicker than our signature rayon, this velvety fabric is machine washable and ideal for movement. High-cut leg line. Can be curled into a tiny bud for easy traveling.
Beige tropical floral print
Snaps at crotch
Polyester and Spandex
Machine and hand wash
Made in Los Angeles, California
Fits true to size, take your normal size
Stretchy fabric
Size chart