tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.comments2018-01-07T12:22:37.677-08:00Hope Is The Thing With FeathersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-11147248412733128762016-01-07T14:43:00.161-08:002016-01-07T14:43:00.161-08:00Interesting blog, but the jambiya photo at the top...Interesting blog, but the jambiya photo at the top of the article does not appear to match that in the Christies catalog, which is gold in color and has a different hilt. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06984914043731769980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-56944653378903356642015-12-12T10:31:35.149-08:002015-12-12T10:31:35.149-08:00lol yeah... and the consumation of the wedding its...lol yeah... and the consumation of the wedding itself for a Queen sometimes had to have people listening... lovely. Mood killer there. no wonder so many kings had issues;)Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-86419326649766367982015-12-12T10:27:56.599-08:002015-12-12T10:27:56.599-08:00lol you ina pink floral coat. It would match the s...lol you ina pink floral coat. It would match the sparkly Jordanian outfit thought...Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-87896495626636033482015-12-12T10:27:27.859-08:002015-12-12T10:27:27.859-08:00And wow that's expensive for a coat! I always ...And wow that's expensive for a coat! I always bought RWand ci on sale in the spring... or shopped for wool coats in Win (the women's charity store) downtown. Good deals.Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-5984738978223289872015-12-10T05:35:53.508-08:002015-12-10T05:35:53.508-08:00I'm sorry I didn't warn you about the rent...I'm sorry I didn't warn you about the renter! I don't think I knew how bad he was at that point. He minds his manners when he can see me or my mum, but really lets loose when he thinks we're not there.<br /><br />I don't think it would be possible to wear abaya or hijab here anymore. Definitely not a safe idea. I'm sorry he told you you deserved it, I hope you know you didn't. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-10313883686104682912015-12-10T05:28:58.702-08:002015-12-10T05:28:58.702-08:00Oh cool! I don't have a very good idea of how...Oh cool! I don't have a very good idea of how ordinary life in the British Isles worked that long ago.<br /><br />It sure is cold and wet. We mostly can't heat the house, so I just wear a lot of layers and a toque and scarf around the house and it's fine, but I still wouldn't want to be living in a stone castle! Or anything made of stone.<br /><br />I was reading about queens giving birth with like twenty people in the room watching. And going to mass while they were in labour (someone wanted to know if you could switch the babies and have someone else be king, or just adopt a child you hadn't given birth to and have them inherit. Nope). And knights trying to illicitly sleep with ladies in the great hall full of people at night, in the Arthurian stories. Yikes. I would have been a hermit or a nun, there's no way I could deal with that many people around.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-11921399600797810252015-12-10T05:21:54.838-08:002015-12-10T05:21:54.838-08:00My mom told me a very similar story about people w...My mom told me a very similar story about people who used to live in that house! It's easy to be nostalgic for simpler times if you weren't the one doing laundry by hand or doing all the cooking. <br /><br />Kinda like Thoreau; his mom was doing his laundry and cooking for him the whole time he was by the pond, I've read.<br /><br />I don't know if I'll see it since I don't have transportation, but I'm looking forward to the daffodils on the roof of the round house in March.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-14835458491922173502015-12-05T10:59:51.904-08:002015-12-05T10:59:51.904-08:00That's really interesting... Roxanna (she live...That's really interesting... Roxanna (she lives in the roundhouse on the way from Sooke road) told me about living in the woods and spinning and weaving her own clothes lol, and how her husband always waxes nostalgic for that "simple" life but how, since mostly all he did was hunting, she is happy to never return to it. Ahhh hippy days (they lived in a tree house, literally, coolest family argument EVER in that house). So a round house with a grass roof with a hobbit style fireplace is like, super modern;).Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-26687927241013683982015-12-05T10:54:44.688-08:002015-12-05T10:54:44.688-08:00Stone castles are also freezing but they generally...Stone castles are also freezing but they generally leak less* and I can do just fine with a giant fireplace so long as it had a chimney that worked, and a four posted bed... sleeping a great hall though... couldn't have done that. Privacy, privacy.... how weird, that life in the past had so little of it.Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-22836256249849769022015-12-05T10:53:20.625-08:002015-12-05T10:53:20.625-08:00They had refridgeration... it was dug into hillsid...They had refridgeration... it was dug into hillsides or down into the ground... way back even to the Bronze age... but pest control was a problem I am sure... Usually the fridge, at least in Ireland, doubled as an escape route tunnel if your settlement became indefensable and you had to run. I may have a picture of it on my facebook with a blurry husband standing half inside (I refuse to go near it, it was that cold and wet).Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-56331327457152078772015-12-05T10:50:30.131-08:002015-12-05T10:50:30.131-08:00Pretty!
Try the rosehip tea... I always liked it...Pretty!<br /><br /> Try the rosehip tea... I always liked it.Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-59534358537707818402015-12-05T10:49:50.513-08:002015-12-05T10:49:50.513-08:00I like to eat snow...I like to eat snow...Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-56417805889948076592015-12-05T10:49:11.195-08:002015-12-05T10:49:11.195-08:00I totally went around in black abayas and shaylas....I totally went around in black abayas and shaylas...I didn't know I should avoid your renter, sorry! ...My father was all freaked out because sometimes people would yell at me driving by even with him and my sister... He was like, I'll drive you to "Raheel's" place. I am like, it is a pretty safe road Dad, I can manage. ;). I think he feels bad for not believing me about some of the stuff that happened in Victoria and for saying I deserved it. I don't think he meant it really, it was just fear I would change into something different. And now I am more normal and boring than I ever was as a non-Muslim;) ha ha ha.<br /><br />Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-65713921189637104612015-12-05T04:14:37.446-08:002015-12-05T04:14:37.446-08:00Oh wow, that's awfully kind of him! Tell him ...Oh wow, that's awfully kind of him! Tell him I said hi, if you talk to him. I could probably look him up in the phone book, but that would be weird. I mostly just eat fish or eggs these days, my family fishes or raises them so they're free and they have too many anyways. It took me seven years to get them to quit freaking out and being jerks, but they got there in the end I guess.<br /><br />My family is glad I'm not visibly Muslim anymore, for a few reasons. Nobody can tell the person in jeans and a toque is Muslim, but it's a small town, people know. I'm still afraid.<br /><br />I keep forgetting about the coffee! Thank you, no hurry. I think I saw photos of at least some of your bedroom set (I'm sick, it's hard to remember) and it was very nice, good score.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-4229999916169365622015-12-05T04:08:26.781-08:002015-12-05T04:08:26.781-08:00It's pretty! I have just been staying indoors...It's pretty! I have just been staying indoors, it's too cold for me out there. I like looking at pictures of snow or videos of snow falling, but that's about it. It looks so soft and nice, but it really isn't.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-13604099432804808412015-12-05T04:06:48.618-08:002015-12-05T04:06:48.618-08:00It might be nice in the summer, as long as you did...It might be nice in the summer, as long as you didn't have to cook over a fire! Or refrigerate things, or do laundry. The cold would wreck me too, especially in northern Europe. I think I will just stick with looking at museums. <br /><br />I have a friend in England whose grandmother lived in a thatched cottage when the friend was a child, but she says rats in the thatch were a problem :/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-267528290000746092015-12-05T02:43:35.962-08:002015-12-05T02:43:35.962-08:00I always wanted to live in a Medieval turf/thatche...I always wanted to live in a Medieval turf/thatched roof house. In Ireland, I saw he and I was like, ugh, maybe not? The cold would destroy me. Guess I am a true Norman at heart, give me a stone castle any day;).Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-58938178349482594192015-12-05T02:42:08.491-08:002015-12-05T02:42:08.491-08:00So pretty! I love looking at Winter (and don't...So pretty! I love looking at Winter (and don't like the cold but I love falling snow). Werid huh?Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-51361564444502893512015-12-05T02:41:27.175-08:002015-12-05T02:41:27.175-08:00Isn't that weird about our families? Now my da...Isn't that weird about our families? Now my dad is like worried about your safety, and he's like, if that Muslim friend of yours needs halal chicken ask her to phone me, I am going to superstore tomorrow lol. And my sister is like, I bought Zz a barbie who has long sleeves so it is modest, lol. In the old days, they made fun of me, told me I deserved people to treat me bad, and didn't like to see me in public. Holidays were all jokes about alcohal or terrorism.. ha ha;).<br /><br />Anyways I hope you are feeling better! I will mail the coffee shortly---this upcoming salary because M left it in the trunk of the car, and now I'm broke lol after my recent bedroom set purchase.Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-34841618014490323582015-10-26T20:03:42.844-07:002015-10-26T20:03:42.844-07:00I read it last year and loved it, maybe re-read it...I read it last year and loved it, maybe re-read it if you get the time! The magical healing part at the end is a bit dismaying, but other than that it's great. It was hard to choose just one quote.<br /><br />Yes, the daffodils are still there along the front walk, I forgot about them. Daffodils are tough, and multiply, and nothing eats them (the darn deer pulled up and ate all my tulips this spring though). They're there for only a few weeks in the spring, but they're really beautiful. I sent pics to Suleiman this February when they were flowering and he loved them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-81875763049796819732015-10-26T06:07:31.363-07:002015-10-26T06:07:31.363-07:00I haven't read that book in years!!!
i don...I haven't read that book in years!!!<br /><br />i don't remember your grandmother's garden but I remember their were some pretty flowers always in the spring in the front lawn along the path to the door. Daffodils I think. Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-26097073968248368912015-10-07T21:40:14.580-07:002015-10-07T21:40:14.580-07:00Some critics in Riley's time actually said tha...Some critics in Riley's time actually said that his dialect wasn't accurate to rural Indiana at all (he lived in town), but that rustic pastoral atmosphere and nostalgia for it were popular in late 19th century America, as it was getting more industrialised and more people were living in towns and cities.<br /><br />I've noticed a similar sort of nostalgia for farming and nature here in town. I haven't posted about it yet, but in the writing section of the fall fair, there were an awful lot of essays and poems about like soil and organic farming and simpler times and the wonderful life of earthworms - by people who had never farmed. It was very romanticised. I should locate the photos and get on that, hopefully I didn't delete them from my phone :XAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-3319007482558801192015-10-07T21:36:07.197-07:002015-10-07T21:36:07.197-07:00Yikes, I don't even like kale that much! It&#...Yikes, I don't even like kale that much! It's tasty, but not 5 OMR worth of tasty. You can get a wheelbarrow load of local greens for that much money.<br /><br />I bought a wedge of pumpkin and cooked it at Halloween last year in Oman! And also a huge papaya, because that's what's in season at that time. Sadly, there were no pumpkin seeds. Maybe I could do a post about that too, we'll see. Enjoy your seeds :D<br /><br />Red rose hips are something you don't really see in the Middle East, but they're everywhere here! I had forgotten about them. And everything is misty right now, the hills are completely invisible. There's just a row of trees veiled in mist, and then a blank white wall around the world. It's raining hard, and the cat's been permanently affixed to my lap since yesterday. It took me a while to look outside and figure out what was up with him.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-36057755253702144792015-10-07T21:31:17.144-07:002015-10-07T21:31:17.144-07:00Yes! Pumpkins are from the Americas! I've be...Yes! Pumpkins are from the Americas! I've been thinking about doing a post on the origins of Halloween and harvest traditions in English/Irish/Scottish folk belief and how they changed in America, but who knows if I'll get the research done before Halloween rolls around again. I have the basic idea and I've read about it before, but my memory is bad and I would have to locate early sources. We'll see!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443434334539569385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2098687575127151279.post-46969033239273691442015-10-07T14:05:45.042-07:002015-10-07T14:05:45.042-07:00Although... turnips were ACTUALLY the original hal...Although... turnips were ACTUALLY the original halloween vegetable for carving;). English Isles didn't HAVE pumpkins way back when.Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.com