I've always wanted to study Latin, and this year I finally had the chance to do so. It's been gratifying in all kinds of different ways; you can't knock the chance to take notes on felix felicis and snigger over phrases like ferret omnibus in an academic environment.


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What was the fruit like? Unfortunately no one can describe a taste. All I can say is that, compared with those fruits, the freshest grapefruit you've ever eaten was dull, and the juiciest orange was dry, and the most melting pear was hard and woody, and the sweetest wild strawberry was sour ... If you had once eaten that fruit, all the nicest ( Read more... )

Having been interested in book binding for a while, I finally decided to give it a go, and saras_girl kindly gave me permission to practise on and post photos of her stories. The following photos show the process of making a paperback book from her story 'On a Clear Day'.

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