Happy Valentine's Day

"Stories from a time when food, love and music were the essential parts of life ..."
 (Foreword Keith Floyd)

A rich collection of scandalous stories of love and passion

by

Carol Payne

"Doreen dreamt she lay in the Brassicas with her Gypsy Lover..."

"But today she was excited for she was meeting Bertie Floyd and they were going for a walk down by the Tidefork river.  He was going to show her how to tickle a trout..."

"Shortly after this event Betty was packed off to London to stay with her aunt..."

"Queenie grew up to be a smashing looking girl, a bit wild like her mother, a lover of life and men..."

"She came from a poor Cornish family, so poor that Amy was made to wear underwear made out of flour sacks, which were printed with red, bold letters 'THE FINEST FLOUR'..."

"She was a proud plump woman, well respected in the village..."

Have a most wonderful and special day

my dear Friends,

Gina

Book available from Amazon

Partial re-post , February 9, 2011

A remarkable Book, Winner of the 1995 Christopher Award

"The Ledger Book of Thomas Blue Eagle"

"Mules are harder to steal than horses...they came willingly when they heard our calls".

"Our tipis were round like the sun and the moon.  My people believe there is great power in a circle".

"We followed the huge herds of buffalo over the Plains, packing tipis on pony drags and our other belongings on dogs".

"My pony was strong and proud, and at first we had many arguments.  I painted him with different earth colors on each side and called him Two Painted Horse". 

"The Crow charged like thunderbeings...yelling their war cries...some of my people were killed and the rest ran in all directions... I climbed inside a hollow tree..."

"A soldier came to my father and asked him to send me to a place called Carlisle Pennsylvania.  The soldier promised to teach me the white man's language and his skills".

Note: "row of little houses"  the train which took the children to the white man's school. 

Winner of the 1995 Christopher Award

By Jewel H. Grant and Gay Matthaei

Illustrations by Adam Cvijanovic

Published in 1994 by Thomasson-Grant

All images from book entitled "The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle"

Available from Amazon ISBN 1-56566-063-3

Happy Superbowl Sunday my dear Blogging Friends

Gina

What to give your Valentine

"Stories from a time when food, love and music were the essential parts of life ..." (Foreword Keith Floyd)

A rich collection of scandalous stories of love and passion

by

Carol Payne

"Doreen dreamt she lay in the Brassicas with her Gypsy Lover..."

"But today she was excited for she was meeting Bertie Floyd and they were going for a walk down by the Tidefork river.  He was going to show her how to tickle a trout..."

"Shortly after this event Betty was packed off to London to stay with her aunt..."

"Queenie grew up to be a smashing looking girl, a bit wild like her mother, a lover of life and men..."

"She came from a poor Cornish family, so poor that Amy was made to wear underwear made out of flour sacks, which were printed with red, bold letters 'THE FINEST FLOUR'..."

"She was a proud plump woman, well respected in the village..."

Note:

I leave this charming little book in our guest cottage but each time our guests leave I have to check...it fits so easily into their luggage

Book available at Amazon

Gina