"Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" was and is hugely popular. "Know Your Onions" contains recipes and household... More > hints from books and magazines published from about 1820 to the 1860s; books and magazines that may have influenced Mrs Beeton. Some of the recipes and household hints are from Samuel Beeton's "Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine" and may well have been contributed by Mrs Beeton herself.

"Know Your Onions"is a treasure trove jam-packed with old recipes and household hints. In this book you will come across such delights as:

* how to cook and prepare a boar's head (not for the squeamish!);
* how to pacify a cross baby;
* how to restore rancid butter by using animal charcoal;
* a cure for baldness;and much, much more.

Read more at
http://lulu.wikidot.com/know-your-onions-or-mrs-beeton-s-hinterland

Contents listed at http://lulu.wikidot.com/know-your-onions-index < Less

I often visit the island of Amorgos in the Cyclades in Greece and have taken many photographs of cats. I took most of the... More > photographs in the main port, Katapola.

Amorgos is a very attractive island, and there are many reasons other than cats for visiting the island. Have a look at
http://www.lulu.com/content/377143



Read about the background to "Cats of Katapola" at
http://lulu.wikidot.com/cats-of-katapola
and have a look at the visiting cat!


Enjoy!

Susan

The photos in the preview may appear in black and white, but the photos in the book are in colour. < Less

I often visit the island of Amorgos in the Cyclades in Greece and have taken many photographs of cats. I took most of the... More > photographs in the main port, Katapola.

Amorgos is a very attractive island, and there are many reasons other than cats for visiting the island. Have a look at
http://www.lulu.com/content/377143



Read about the background to "Cats of Katapola" at
http://lulu.wikidot.com/cats-of-katapola
and have a look at the visiting cat!


Enjoy!

Susan

The photos in the preview may appear in black and white, but the photos in the book are in colour. < Less

A modern recreation of a Victorian scrapbook made up of cuttings from books and magazines published in the early to mid... More > nineteenth century. You will come across such delights as the artificial duck that ate, drank and quacked; the tax on bachelors; early attempts at ballooning; the clever cat; horse-racing by machinery; leeches; powdering the hair; early steam carriages. And of course the baboon playing chess with an Emperor. And much, much more.

If you enjoy loitering amongst literary and historic trivia, then you will love this book. Read more at http://lulu.wikidot.com/and-the-baboon-played-chess-with-the-emperor < Less

Queen Victoria supposedly said "We are not amused". Read "Old Groaners", and you will find some of the conundrums, or... More > riddles, that amused the Victorians.

Why do some persons believe the moon to be made of green cheese? Because of the milky whey that surrounds it.

Which is the way to make your trousers last? To make your coat and waistcoat first.

Why is a guinea in the distance not worth a penny? Because it's only a far-thing.

Why do little birds in a nest agree? Because if they did not, they would fall out.

Why is a dead doctor like a dead duck? Because he has stopped quacking.

What is worse than "raining cats and dogs"? Hailing omnibuses.

Read about the background to "Old Groaners" at
http://lulu.wikidot.com/old-groaners < Less

Cats of Katapola 2012 contains a selection of the photos I have taken in Katapola, on the Greek island of Amorgos, in 2011.

In February 2004 it snowed on the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades in Greece. There was even snow down by the harbour. "Snow... More > in Naxos" contains a selection of my photographs.

I originally put what is now the back cover photo on the front cover. But the photo of Naxos paralia (the sea front) on a snowy day was SO gloomy that I relegated that photo to the back page; and on the front page there is now a sunny photograph showing just the glimmer of snow on the distant mountains of Paros!

Read about the background to "Snow in Naxos" at http://lulu.wikidot.com/snow-in-naxos


An ideal present for anyone who enjoys holidays in Greece. Or, go on, treat yourself!

Wrap up warm and enjoy!

NB The photos in the preview may appear in black and white, but the photos in the book are in colour and better quality than in the preview! < Less

In February 2004 it snowed on the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades in Greece. There was even snow down by the harbour. "Snow... More > in Naxos" contains a selection of my photographs.

I originally put what is now the back cover photo on the front cover. But the photo of Naxos paralia (the sea front) on a snowy day was SO gloomy that I relegated that photo to the back page; and on the front page there is now a sunny photograph showing just the glimmer of snow on the distant mountains of Paros!

Read about the background to "Snow in Naxos" at http://lulu.wikidot.com/snow-in-naxos


An ideal present for anyone who enjoys holidays in Greece. Or, go on, treat yourself!

Wrap up warm and enjoy!

NB The photos in the preview may appear in black and white, but the photos in the book are in colour and better quality than in the preview! < Less

Some of the photographs I have taken in 2010 of cats in and around the village of Katapola on the island of Amorgos, in the Cyclades, Greece.

A selection of photographs of cats taken in and around Katapola. Katapola is the main port of Amorgos, an island in the... More > Cyclades in Greece. I published "Cats of Katapola" in 2007. This photobook is the sequel! < Less