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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
Tag Archives: Kinrowan Estate
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: A Handfasting
The note outside the Green Man Pub read in a rather fine cursive script: Celtic Pagan priestess needed for hand fasting in Oberon’s Wood on Summer Solstice. Sky-clad obviously and able to tolerate drunken, off-key bards and terrible sword jokes … Continue reading →
A Kinrowan Estate story: Fiddles
Fiddles. They’re everywhere. The fairies may very well have brought the harp and pipes to Ireland and gifted the population with them, but sometimes it seems that, if they brought the fiddle to anyone, it was to get rid of … Continue reading →
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A Scullery Maid on our Kitchen
From a recent edition of The Sleeping Hedgehog ‘Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.’ — Voltaire Whisht! Hush now, will you, shhhh! Quick, over … Continue reading →
A Kinrowan Estate story: Biscuits
No, not the biscuits we have here in Scotland and the rest of the British Isles which Americans call cookies of one sort or another, but rather what Americans do call a biscuit. There’s simply nothing better then the smell … Continue reading →
A Kinrowan Estate story: Pudding contest
Her name was Bronwyn ap Tewdwr and she was our guest judge for the annual pudding contest. ‘A pudding contest?’, you ask? And I say, ‘Why not!’ Real pudding, like real ale, is a long way from the packaged puddings that … Continue reading →
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A Kinrowan Estate story: Scarecrows
Scarecrows are something that I think work rather well for keeping certain birds such as crows off the Estate crops, and they add a bit of whimsy to the fields so I let the Several Annies, Iain’s Library Apprentices, make a … Continue reading →
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A Kinrowan Estate story: Spring Chores (A Letter to Anna)
Varmaste hälsningar Anna, Spring has finally arrived which mean Gus, our Estate Head Gardener, has drafted everyone not busy doing something they can’t drop for the needed tasks that the Estate demands this time of year. All of my Several … Continue reading →
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A Kinrowan Estate story: Curling (A Letter to Svetlana)
Dear friend, We’re making last minute preparations for the curling tournament to be held here in a week. Yes, a curling tournament. We’ve got teams coming from Sweden, Finland, Canada, and even a Russian team. Gus has been busy having … Continue reading →
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A Kinrowan Estate story: Kinrowan Special Reserve Pear Cider (A Letter to Tessa)
Dear Tessa, I talked about the Kinrowan Special Reserve Pear Cider in my last letter to you but I thought I’d talk about cider in general this time, as you expressed interest in knowing more about it. Cider is oft … Continue reading →
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