I'm watching a show called "In Search of England's Green and Pleasant Land," and the host made reference to a book I think I had heard of before by William Cobbett, called Cottage Economy, written in the early 19th century to help the rural working poor become more economically self-sufficient. And I as I settled down to read it with a cup of tea, ( Read more... )

Oh, this is absurd!

I live in Tevas or the like. My feet and toes started getting cramps yesterday evening and kept it up all night and, in fact, are still doing it on occasion. The pulled or stretched or something hamstring or tendon or ligament or something in my thigh has started hurting again, right after I had gotten it under control. My butt ( Read more... )

I ask that every spring, so you'd think by now I'd realize the answer is "no," but I feel like I will, anyway. And it's just getting started! Christopher Buckley said "the hideous Washington summers are Nature's revenge for the loveliness of Washington's springs" in Thank You for Smoking but he didn't say how many of us wind up enjoying those ( Read more... )

• First of all, may I say I've come to hate iJournal? It doesn't post when I tell it to, it doesn't have the formatting I like (like these bullet points) and whether it eventually posts or not, it keeps the last entry up in the text box forever....unless it crashes right as I'm halfway through a long post, like it did a few minutes ago. In those ( Read more... )