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- What’s New for the 15th of May: Cirque du Soleil, Steeleye Span live, A history of anime, peanut butter chocolate cups, mystery, vampires, and medieval feasts; Alison Bechdel and other queer comix; R. Crumb and old time music on film; Ojibwe Pow Wow singing, Albion Band, Springsteen, Teddy Thompson and more music
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Strawberry Ice Cream
- What’s New for the 1st of May: A Folkmanis Piglet puppet, Chocolate to nibble on, Classic SF on Mars; Music from Big Foot County, Finnish music, classical music, Ian Anderson and other music; Led Zep and Hawaiian cowboys on film; YA fantasy horror
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Cranachan
- What’s New for the 17th of April: Gods, goddesses and ghosts, Gaiman, Crumb and Sacco, June Millington, Celtic Harp, Catalan Jazz, Georgiann Choral Music, Slovenian post-rock, chocolate, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: The Sleeper Under The Hill (A Letter to Ceinwen)
- What’s New for the 3rd of April: Music-related fantasy literature, speculative fiction manga series, all things Natalie MacMaster, some jazz-dub-world music, transcultural jazz and Spanish accordion music, dragon puppets, and of course chocolate
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Breakfast for the Neverending Seesion players
- What’s New for the 20th of March: Lots of Brian McNeill music, more UK TV, roots music from the US and Spain, some European jazz, Kim Stanley Robinson on the moon, Roger Zelazny, China Miéville, rowdy Americana, some boozy things, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate Tale: A Restless Queen
- What’s New for the 6th of March: lots of Ian McDonald, Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, new Norwegian and Belgian music, The Men They Couldn’t Hang, and of course chocolate
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Porridge
- What’s New for 20th of February: Bill Willingham’s Fables, world music guides, blues, jazz, British and Eurasian music, Joni Mitchell reading Yeats, radio plays, and of course chocolate
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Central European creature comforts
- What’s New for the 6th of February: Spices, Gypsies and Judith Tarr; Groundhog Day and Midsomer Murders; giants and old Jewish comedians; white moons, sad daddies, violet light and Yggdrasil music; Rodents of an Unusual Size, and of course chocolate
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Troll under The Bridge: The Design Process (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 23rd of January: Candlemas Will Be Upon Us Soon
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Chicken Pot Pie
- What’s New for 9th of January: All things Batman; Ritter bars and other wonderful things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Hidden Library
- What’s New for the 26th of December: It’s Boxing Day!
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Butlers (A Letter to Svetlana)
- What’s new for 12th of December: Mari Boine Persen live, Spidery things, Gwyneth on chestnuts and other late Autumn Matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Apple Brandy
- What’s New for the 28th of November: Books about books, murder, witches, games and more; Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library; chocolate good and meh; indie rock, Americana, jazz, Latvian, and more music including a world bagpipe omnibus
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Irish Coffee
- What’s New for the 14th of November: Mystery novels, mystery films, music of an autumnal nature, Chinese folk music, Buffy graphic novels, and lots of licorice
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Guy Fawkes Day (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 31st of October: All Hallows’ Eve Edition
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Preparing for All Hallow’s Eve
Category Archives: Stories
A Kinrowan Estate Story: Strawberry Ice Cream
During the early Victorian Era, the Head Gardener at the time, Jacob Niles, persuaded the Steward, Allison MacPhee, to invest in a conservatory. According to the Journals kept by him and the Steward, the deciding factor was that it could … Continue reading →
A Kinrowan Estate Story: Cranachan
Good Evening Ekaterina, Ingrid sends her love and hopes your trip to Canada is going well. Mrs. Ware cooked the traditional Scottish dessert that you love earlier tonight — cranachan, which you know is made with oats, cream, whisky and … Continue reading →
A Kinrowan Estate story: The Sleeper Under The Hill (A Letter to Ceinwen)
Dear Ceinwen, As a fellow librarian interested in all things mythopoeic, you’ll find this interesting. This is the month that I’ve got the Several Annies studying a myth in depth, this one being that of The Sleeper Under the Hill. … Continue reading →
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A Kinrowan Estate story: Breakfast for the Neverending Seesion players
Oatmeal drizzled with cream, rotund pork sausages sizzling with fat, eggs both simple and fancy, bread thick with butter and strawberry jam, scones with clotted cream, calves liver, bacon, lobscouse, crispbreads, tea, coffee, Turkish coffee… At some point you stop … Continue reading →
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A Kinrowan Estate Tale: A Restless Queen
It was late at night when the green-cloaked storyteller told her tale. ‘ “Turning and turning in the widening gyre,” ‘ she said softly, quoting Yeats, ‘ “The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; The center cannot hold; … Continue reading →
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A Kinrowan Estate story: Porridge
Englishman Dr. Samuel Johnson’s dictionary once slammed porridge, defining oats as ‘a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.’ Obviously he never had a good bowl of hot porridge with applesauce mixed … Continue reading →
A Kinrowan Estate story: Central European creature comforts
Jack Merry here. If you’ve got a bit of time to spare, I could use your help! Remember me mentioning a couple of weeks ago that the fellow violinists in the Huddled Masses Violin Ensemble (at their reunion somewhere in … Continue reading →
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A Kinrowan Estate story: A Troll under The Bridge: The Design Process (A Letter to Anna)
Dear Anna, Imagine an old forest witch, a crone with a cackle and gnarled hands. Well, Justina did one of those when she was here the first time. Alas the Troll proved more elusive in design. Much more elusive. And … Continue reading →
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A Kinrowan Estate story: Chicken Pot Pie
Making chicken pies starts with slaughtering enough chickens to feed twenty-five or so hungry folk. A chicken dressed out yields two pounds of meat which is enough for four to six people depending on what else gets added in. All of … Continue reading →
A Kinrowan Estate story: A Hidden Library
It’s been jocularly observed that the presence of many books in one place can actually warp both space and time. I’m Iain MacKenzie, the Head Librarian here at the Kinrowan Estate, and I’m not sure that this view is so … Continue reading →