Monthly Archives: December 2014

New Year Snippets

Posted on December 31, 2014 by padmum

NEW YEAR TITBITS ANCIENT NEW YEARS New Year’s Day is the oldest of all holidays. About 4000 years ago the Babylonians celebration lasted for eleven days. January 1 celebrated world wide as New Year has no astronomical nor agricultural significance. … Continue reading →

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Comfort Zone

Posted on December 21, 2014 by padmum

Always at the back of my mind was the fact that there was a bookstore near wherever I lived that I could pop into and get a few books. I am a serial reader…I have a few books in various … Continue reading →

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Love’s Labour Lost

Posted on December 12, 2014 by padmum

Something that I had to read up as part of my curriculum eons ago…it was one of the early plays written by Shakespeare. The play bristles with verbal wit and his usual complicated storyline. The King of Navarre and his … Continue reading →

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