I looked up James Fitzgibbon. He sounds quite a guy; this was one of my favourite facts:
At one point, he disguised himself as a butter peddler in order to enter and observe an American camp at Stoney Creek.
Cool! Reminds me of a Scottish naval commander -- Thomas Cochrane, I think his name was -- who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was reputed to have gone to a fancy-dress party on a French admiralty ship disguised as a Royal Navy Commander (ie wearing his own uniform).
Where are the men like these today? I think we should be told.
But even more interesting in some ways than James Fitzgibbon was Laura Secord! She was a war hero in her spare time when she wasn't making all sorts of tempting, fattening goodies! I never even knew.
Oh, and the Julia Cameron book: I liked it very much for its philosophy. She's got a very liberating, zen attitude to writing, which I liked, and she chops away at all the procrastination crap, which I need. I wasn't so keen on her, though. She obviously thinks she's the bee's knees. As we say here, if she were chocolate, she would eat herself. Hmm. Back at Laura Secord again. Lunch is calling.
It was geeking over Laura Secord that first put me on to Fitzgibbon. I was intending to do this project based on her heroics but Fitzgibbon seems to be taking it over. There are just so many things to love about him. I won't go into it all here because it is enough to fill a book.
And SQUEEE! If Fitzgibbon is my historic boyfriend then Thomas Cochrane is who I am cheating on him with. Incidentally Patrick O'Brian largely based Jack Aubrey on Cochrane.
At one point, he disguised himself as a butter peddler in order to enter and observe an American camp at Stoney Creek.
Cool! Reminds me of a Scottish naval commander -- Thomas Cochrane, I think his name was -- who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was reputed to have gone to a fancy-dress party on a French admiralty ship disguised as a Royal Navy Commander (ie wearing his own uniform).
Where are the men like these today? I think we should be told.
But even more interesting in some ways than James Fitzgibbon was Laura Secord! She was a war hero in her spare time when she wasn't making all sorts of tempting, fattening goodies! I never even knew.
Oh, and the Julia Cameron book: I liked it very much for its philosophy. She's got a very liberating, zen attitude to writing, which I liked, and she chops away at all the procrastination crap, which I need. I wasn't so keen on her, though. She obviously thinks she's the bee's knees. As we say here, if she were chocolate, she would eat herself. Hmm. Back at Laura Secord again. Lunch is calling.
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And SQUEEE! If Fitzgibbon is my historic boyfriend then Thomas Cochrane is who I am cheating on him with. Incidentally Patrick O'Brian largely based Jack Aubrey on Cochrane.
I just love the Napoleonic wars!
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