Category Archives: Just For Fun

Nothing earth-shaking or life-changing, just things we think about now and then . . . .

The Homestead Acquires a Rubber Ducky

The other day I scrambled south along our beach to check the ripeness of the currants in the pocket of our southern point. As always, I kept an eye out for anything of interest that might have washed up on … Continue reading

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Of Butts, Kitchens, and the Turveydrop School of Deportment

A year or so ago, we watched the BBC mini-serialization of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House (paid link). We enjoyed it, but one aspect of it particularly stuck with me. A few scenes occurred in the Turveydrop School of Deportment. In … Continue reading

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