Abby Murphy
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Transitions
For a long time I haven’t known what to do with this space. As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t featured a recipe in quite some time, and my posting is sparse. Partially this is due to the amount of time… Continue reading
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Afternoon Adventure: Highclere Castle
AKA: That time we went to Downton Abbey. We saw all sorts of wonderful things on our honeymoon. The Churchill War Rooms, the Tower of London, Stonehenge, the Sherlock Holmes Museum, a play with Sîan Phillips…and yet, now that we’re… Continue reading
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Reading World War I
We’ve just returned from our honeymoon and family vacations (nothing wrong with a month away!), and I’m excited to share some of our adventures with you. But today I’m thinking about World War I (known as the Great War by… Continue reading
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Carrot pudding
This summer we’re trying out a CSA, or “Community Supported Agriculture.” Each week we pick up a manageable amount of fresh vegetables (and sometimes a potted plant!) from a nearby farm. Having paid the farm in advance for the season, we… Continue reading
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Spring blog hop!
Last summer I participated in a fun blog hop for writers and illustrators and generally interesting folk. The inimitable Shelley Sackier tagged me to participate in this year’s hop, and I was excited to join. Shelley Sackier is a bone-tired… Continue reading
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By Timothy!
I really like to listen to stories while I cook. Sometimes it’s books on tape (Jim Dale narrating Harry Potter? check!), sometimes it’s NPR, and lately it’s been dramatized mysteries. My sister and I grew up listening to dramatized Agatha… Continue reading
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Wedding dress, 1920
I promise this isn’t going to become a blog about weddings. But it turns out that when you’re planning a wedding, you end up thinking about weddings a lot. Sometimes it’s fun, and sometimes you want to plug up your… Continue reading
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Teaching history
It’s hard to come back after a long hiatus. February started busy and things just kept on getting busier, and here we are in the middle of March. Maybe I should have guessed that planning a wedding, revising a book, and… Continue reading
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Personal reading history
Happy Valentine’s Day! I’ve been hunkered down at home with a nasty virus, and the wintry mix outside isn’t doing much to make things feel more festive. So instead, I’ve been daydreaming about our summer honeymoon in England. Josh and… Continue reading
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Winter is coming
But really, it’s here. Last weekend Josh and I hosted two separate gatherings of friends to play the Game of Thrones board game. This is a complicated, multiplayer game where folks play as the houses (House Stark, for example) from… Continue reading
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