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January 28, 2013
DWNP Holmes birthday celebration
It was a little late to celebrate the Great Detective’s birthday, but let’s face it, Jan. 6 is a dubious date at best to honor Sherlock Holmes. So this year, Doctor Watson’s Neglected Patients celebrated last night (Jan. 27), with dinner, toasts, a fiendish quiz, a silent auction and …
January 25, 2013
Wodehouse society chapters
As you can see from this graphic, the square states are particularly devoid of any Wodehouse societies, and I’d like to remedy this. So if you’re interested in joining “an association of agreeable human beings who share an admiration of Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and the rich products of …
January 23, 2013
P.G. Wodehouse society in Denver
All this talk of P.G. Wodehouse has me thinking there really should be a Wodehouse Society in Denver, and if you’re of similar mind, leave a comment here on the blog or on facebook. I’d like to meet on an infrequent basis—maybe four times a year in central Denver—possibly for …
January 22, 2013
The Victorians (through painting)
The Victorians is a 2009 BBC One documentary presented by Jeremy Paxman that explores the age through the art of the period, which proves a perfect lens. The four episodes, Painting the Town, Home Sweet Home, Having It All and Dreams and Nightmares gives us the horrors of the period …
Abbey Cooks Entertain
Pamela Foster at the Downton Abbey Cooks blog has released her Abbey Cooks Entertain cookbook with 220 recipes inspired by Downton Abbey. Of course you could just visit her blog and find many of these same recipes, but how much more convenient to download her book to your Kindle or …
Rejoice! A new BBC Blandings series is here
The lark’s on the wing, the snail’s on the thorn, God’s in His heaven and all’s right in the world because P.G. Wodehouse has returned with a new Blandings series on the BBC. The only sad note is that I can’t see it yet because I am doomed, DOOMED! to …
January 21, 2013
Mulliner stories by P.G. Wodehouse
Just found one of the Wodehouse Playhouse stories on YouTube and had to share. If you’re not familiar with P.G. Wodehouse, you’ve led a sad, joyless existence so far, and I recommend you immediately read The Code of the Woosters or Heavy Weather or Something Fresh and look forward to …
January 19, 2013
The Great Stink of 1858
Another great Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast, this time on the Great Stink of 1858, the year that Londoners realized they couldn’t continue dumping sewage into the Thames—or least not right under their noses. Because in the summer of that year, the heat made the smell unbearable. Lawmakers in …
January 18, 2013
Pride and Prejudice board game/Austen stamps
I subscribe to the blog Embarking on a Course of Study, the home of author Chris Stewart, and normally I don’t try to steal posts outright, but she found out about the Pride and Prejudice Board Game from Ash Grove Press, and I just had to include a link here. …
pea-souper, a real:
Unfortunately this phrase, to my knowledge, is never uttered in the Canon, but it was undoubtedly a phrase known to Holmes and Watson. In the Bruce-Partington Plans, we read: “In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London.” The word fog …
