Category: Interesting stuff

Travellers Staying At This Place In Scotland Take Turns Running The Bookshop Downstairs

At The Open Book, in Wigtown, Scotland, you can fulfill your dream of running a bookstore. The unique Airbnb flat costs just 57 USD a night, but it comes with a stipulation: renters also work at the bookshop on the first floor, doing everything that a regular bookshop owner might do in a regular, 40-hour …

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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

  My Little Free Library isn’t quite ready for the Grand Opening so we can’t have a Dr. Seuss party this year. Meanwhile, though…     Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where I also grew up and went to High School. The Springfield Library Quadrangle has been home to the Dr. …

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“Mr Rumbold” Died Sunday

Nicholas Smith was the last surviving cast member of the old British show, Are You Being Served? when he died Sunday at the age of 81. My son and I got hooked on the show and Blackadder when we’d visit my parents in Delaware about 25 years or so ago.  Luckily the jokes would (hopefully!) go …

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Flashmob Junkie

    Some days I get in the mood to watch a Flashmob.  When I watch one on youtube, they suggest another and another and before I know it, an hour (or more) has gone by.  Here are a couple I saw this morning. This one is Puttin’ On the Ritz by Irving Berlin – …

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