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An heirloom patchwork quilt hiding a scandalous royal secret is the link between the generations separating an orphaned seamstress and a modern-day single woman, in Trenow's (The Last Telegram) solid second novel. Maria Romano, an inmate at the Helena Hall mental hospital, comes to life through a series of taped conversations from 1970, when she was interviewed by a young research student. Fast forward to 2008, when Caroline Meadows, made redundant at her bank job and recently broken up from her boyfriend of five years, discovers she's pregnant and suddenly becomes curious about the quilt she inherited from her grandmother. The novel pairs the stories of the young women a century apart: Maria, an orphan whose artistic needlework gets her placed in a royal household where she has a dalliance with the Prince of Wales; Caroline, whose own artistic talents and ambitions jump-start her career as an interior designer. Unfortunately, Maria's saga is much more interesting than that of her modern counterpart, who, as the reader discovers through a convoluted plot thread, has more of a connection to Maria than just her grandmother's quilt. But nevertheless, this is a page-turner with eye-opening details about the conditions of mental hospitals in the 20th century, as well as the provenance of royal fabrics, the art of quilting, and the vagaries of modern interior design. (May)
The Forgotten Seamstressby Liz Trenow
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"An intriguing patchwork of past and present, upstairs and downstairs, hope and despair." —Daisy Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of The American Heiress
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"An intriguing patchwork of past and present, upstairs and downstairs, hope and despair." —Daisy Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of The American Heiress
She Kept Her Secret for a Lifetime...
A shy girl with no family, Maria knows she's lucky to have landed in the sewing room of the royal household. Before World War I casts its shadow, she catches the eye of the Prince of Wales, a glamorous and intense gentleman. But her life takes a far darker turn, and soon all she has left is a fantastical story about her time at Buckingham Palace.
Decades later, Caroline Meadows discovers a beautiful quilt in her mother's attic. When she can't figure out the meaning of the message embroidered into its lining, she embarks on a quest to reveal its mystery, a puzzle that only seems to grow more important to her own heart. As Caroline pieces together the secret history of the quilt, she comes closer and closer to the truth about Maria.
Page-turning and heartbreaking, The Forgotten Seamstress weaves together past and present in an unforgettable journey.
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An heirloom patchwork quilt hiding a scandalous royal secret is the link between the generations separating an orphaned seamstress and a modern-day single woman, in Trenow's (The Last Telegram) solid second novel. Maria Romano, an inmate at the Helena Hall mental hospital, comes to life through a series of taped conversations from 1970, when she was interviewed by a young research student. Fast forward to 2008, when Caroline Meadows, made redundant at her bank job and recently broken up from her boyfriend of five years, discovers she's pregnant and suddenly becomes curious about the quilt she inherited from her grandmother. The novel pairs the stories of the young women a century apart: Maria, an orphan whose artistic needlework gets her placed in a royal household where she has a dalliance with the Prince of Wales; Caroline, whose own artistic talents and ambitions jump-start her career as an interior designer. Unfortunately, Maria's saga is much more interesting than that of her modern counterpart, who, as the reader discovers through a convoluted plot thread, has more of a connection to Maria than just her grandmother's quilt. But nevertheless, this is a page-turner with eye-opening details about the conditions of mental hospitals in the 20th century, as well as the provenance of royal fabrics, the art of quilting, and the vagaries of modern interior design. (May)
British author Trenow (The Last Telegram, 2013) methodically intertwines the lives of two women who live a century apart in a complex and poignant novel. With understated eloquence and compassion, the author breathes life into the story of Maria Romano, a naïve young seamstress who's spirited away from her job at Buckingham Palace to spend years of her life confined to a mental hospital. An orphan with exceptional needlework skills, Maria is pressed into royal service in 1911, when she's barely a teenager, and falls in love with Prince Edward, the eldest son of King George V and Queen Mary. Maria can't believe her good fortune when he singles her out for attention—but then she gets pregnant. The young girl is scared but relieved when the housekeeper tells her she'll be taken care of, and she's instructed to gather her bag and get into a carriage. Maria packs up all her worldly possessions, including the beginnings of a patchwork quilt she's pieced together from scraps of fabric she lifted from a palace cupboard, and assumes she's being taken somewhere safe to await the birth of her infant. Rather than a regular hospital, however, she's confined to a mental institution where she hazily recalls giving birth but is told her child died. As the reality of her situation sinks in, Maria attempts to run away, fails and retreats into her own soundless world until a volunteer's encouragement rekindles her interest in stitchery. After 50 years of institutionalization, Maria's childhood friend finds her and arranges for Maria to live in her home—and in 1970, Maria's story is preserved by a student interviewing ex-patients of the mental facility for a research project. Years later, Caroline Meadows struggles with a recent breakup, termination from her banking job and her mother's descent into dementia as she cleans out the family home. Inside a suitcase, she finds a beautiful patchwork quilt once promised to her by her grandmother, and she's compelled to explore the quilt's origins. As Caroline uncovers its secrets, she discovers the threads that bind her to Maria, begins to understand the meaning of home and summons the courage to consider new directions in her life. Weaving together Caroline's and Maria's journeys, Trenow meticulously stitches each piece of this engrossing story into a unified—and heartwarming—whole.
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They told me you want to know my story, why I ended up in this place? Well, there's an odd question, and I've been asking it meself for the past fifty years. I can tell you how I got here and what happened to me. But why? Now that's a mystery.
It's a deep, smoke-filled voice, with a strong East London accent, and you can hear the smile in it, as if she's about to break into an asthmatic chuckle at any moment.
They've probably warned you about me, told you my story is all made up. At least that's what those trick-cyclists would have you believe.
Another voice, with the carefully modulated, well-educated tones of a younger woman: "Trick-cyclist?"
Sorry, dearie, it's what we used to call the psychiatrist, in them old days. Anyway, he used to say that telling tales-he calls them fantasies-is a response to some "ungratified need."
"You're not wrong there," I'd tell him, giving him the old eyelash flutter. "I've been stuck in here most of me life. I've got plenty of ungratified needs." But he'd just smile and say, "You need to concentrate on getting better, my dear, look forward, not backward, all the time. Repeating and reinforcing these fantasies is just regressive behavior, and it really must stop, or we'll never get you out of here."
Well, you can take it or leave it, dearie, but I have to tell it.
"And I would very much like to hear it. That's what I'm here for."
That's very kind of you, my dear. You see, when you've been hidden away from real life for so many years, what else is there to do but remember the times when you were young, when you were meeting new people every day, when you were allowed to have feelings, when you were alive? Nothing. Except for me needlework and other creations, they were the only things that would give me a bit of comfort. So I tell my story to anyone who will listen, and I don't care if they call me a fantasist. Remembering him, and the child I lost, is the only way I could hold onto reality.
So, where do you want me to start?
"At the beginning would be fine. The tape is running now."
You'll have to bear with me, dearie. It'll take some remembering, it was that long ago. I turned seventy-four this year so the old brain cells are not what they used to be. Still, I'll give it a try. You don't mind if I carry on with me sewing while I talk, do you? It helps me concentrate and relax. I'm never happy without a needle in my fingers. It's just a bit of appliqué with a buttonhole stitch-quite straightforward. Stops the fabric fraying, you see?
She is caught by a spasm of coughing, a deep, rattling smoker's cough.
Hrrrm. That's better. Okay, here we go then.
My name is Maria Romano, and I believe my mother was originally from Rome, though what she was doing leaving that beautiful sunny place for the dreary old East End of London is a mystery. Do they all grow small, the people who live in Italy? Mum was tiny, so they said, and I've never been more than five foot at the best of times. These days I've probably shrunk to less. If you're that size, you don't have a cat's chance of winning a fight, so you learn to be quick on your feet-that's me. I used to love dancing whenever I had the chance, which wasn't often, and I could run like the wind. But there have been some things in my life even I couldn't run away from-this place being one of them.
The strange thing is that after all those years of longing to get out, once we was allowed to do what we liked, we always wanted to come back-it felt safe and my friends were here. It was my home. When they started talking about sending us all away to live in houses, it made me frightened just to imagine it, and if it was worrying me, what must it have been like for the real crazies? How do they ever cope outside? You're a socio-wotsit, aren't you? What do you think?
"I'm happy to talk about that later, if you like, but we're here to talk about you. So please carry on."
I will if you insist, though I can't for the life of me imagine what you find so interesting in a little old lady. What was I talking about?
"Your mother?"
Ah yes, me poor mum. Another reason to believe she was Italian is my coloring. I'm all gray now, faded to nothing, but my skin used to go so dark in summer, they said I must have a touch of the tar brush, and my shiny black curls were the envy of all the girls at the orphanage. Nora told me the boys thought I was quite a looker, and I learned to flash my big brown eyes at them to make them blush and to watch their glances slip sideways.
"The orphanage?"
Ah yes, Mum died when I was just a babe, only about two years old I was, poor little mite. Not sure what she died of, but there was all kinds of diseases back then in them poor parts of the city, and no doctors to speak of, not for our kind, at least. They hadn't come up with antibiotics or vaccinations, nothing like that-hard to believe now, but I'm talking about the really old days, turn of the century times.
I never heard tell of any grandparents, and after he'd had his fun, my father disappeared off the scene as far as I knew, so when she died, I ended up at The Castle-well, that's what we called it because the place was so huge and gloomy and it had pointy windows and those whatchamacall-ums, them zigzaggy patterns around the top of the walls where the roof should be.
It was certainly a fortress, with high iron gates and brick walls all around. To keep dangerous people out, they told us-this was the East End of London after all-but we knew it was really to stop us lot running away. There was no garden as such, no trees or flowers, just a paved yard we could play in when the weather was good.
Inside was all dark wood and stone floors and great wide stairways reaching up three or four stories; to my little legs, it felt like we was climbing up to heaven each time we went to bed. It sounds a bit tragic when I tell it, but I don't remember ever feeling unhappy there. I knew no different. It was warm, the food was good, and I had plenty of company-some of them became true friends.
The nuns was terrifying to us littl'uns at first, in their long black tunics with sleeves that flared out like bat's wings when they ran along the corridors chasing and chastising us. Most of 'em was kindly even though some could get crotchety at times. No surprise really, with no men in their lives, and just a load of naughty children.
It was a better start in life than I'd have had with my poor mum, I'll warrant. Pity it didn't turn out like that in the end.
Anyway, the nuns' sole aim in life was to teach us little monsters good manners and basic reading and writing, as well as skills like cooking, housework, and needlework so we could go into service when we came of an age, which is exactly what happened to me. I 'specially loved needlework. I was good at it, and I loved the attention it give me.
"It's a gift from God," the nuns would say, but I didn't believe that. It was just 'cause I had tiny fingers, and I took more trouble than the others and learned to do it properly. We had all the time in the world, after all.
D'you do any sewing, Miss?
"Not really. I'm more of a words person."
You should give it a try. There's nothing more satisfying than starting with a plain old piece of wool blanket that no one else wants and ending up with a beautiful coat that'll keep a child warm through many a winter. Or to quilt up scraps of cotton patchwork to make a comfy bed cover that ain't scratchy and makes the room look pretty besides.
The needlework room at The Castle had long cutting tables and tall windows set so high you couldn't see out of them, and that was where we spent most of our days. In winter, we'd huddle by the old stove in the corner, and in summer, we'd spread out around the room in gaggles so that we could gossip away from those nuns' ears, which was sharp as pins.
It was all handstitching, mind, no sewing machines in those days, of course. And by the time I was ten, I knew what needle to use with which fabrics and what kind of thread, and I could do a dozen types of stitch, from simple running stitch and back stitching, to fancy embroidery like wheatear and French knots, and I loved to do them as perfect and even as possible so you could hardly tell a human hand had made them. Sister Mary was a good teacher and loved her subject, and I suppose she passed her enthusiasm on to us, so before long, I could name any fabric with my eyes closed just by the feel, tell the difference between crepe and cambric, galatea and gingham, kersey and linsey-woolsey, velvet and velvetine, and which was best for which job.
Not that we saw a lot of fine fabrics, mind. It was mostly plain wool and cotton, much of it secondhand that we had to reclaim from used garments and furnishings. But on occasions, the local haberdashery would bring rolls of new printed cottons and pattern-weave wools they didn't want no more, out of charity, I suppose, for us poor little orphan children and the other little orphans we was making the clothes for.
You look puzzled. Sorry, I get carried away with me memories. The reason we was so busy sewing at The Castle was because the nuns had been asked by the grand ladies of the London Needlework Society to help them with their good works-which was making clothes for poor people. It made us feel special; we had nothing in the world except our skills, and we were using them to help other children like us.
The days when those haberdashers' deliveries arrived was like birthdays and Christmases rolled into one, taking the wrappers off the rolls and discovering new colors and patterns and breathing in that clean, summery smell of new fabric, like clothes drying on a line-there's nothing to match it, even now. When we was growing out of our clothes, the nuns would let us have remnants of patterned cotton to make ourselves new dresses and skirts, and Nora and me would always pick the brightest floral prints. We didn't see too many flowers for real, so it brought a touch of springtime into our lives.
"Nora? You knew each other even then?"
Oh yes, we go way back. She was my best friend. We was around the same age, so far as we knew, and always shared a dormitory, called ourselves sisters-the family kind, not the nun kind-and swore we'd never be parted. Not that we looked like family by any stretch: she was blond, and by the time we was fourteen, she towered above me at five feet six with big feet she was always tripping over and a laugh like a tidal wave which made anyone around her-even the nuns-break out into a smile. She had large hands too, double the size of mine, but that didn't stop her being a good needleworker. We was naughty little minxes, but we got away with it 'cause we worked hard.
Like I say, we was happy because we knew no different, but we was also growing up-even though my chest was flat and my fanny still smooth as a baby's bottom, Nora was getting breasts and hair down there, as well as under her arms, and both of us was starting to give the eye to the gardener's lad and the baker's delivery boy, whenever the nuns weren't watching.
That day, we was doing our needlework when this grand lady with a big hat and feathers on the top of her head comes with a gaggle of her lah-di-dah friends, like a royal visit it was, and she leans over what I am embroidering and says, "What fine stitching, my dear. Where did you learn that?"
And I says back, "It's daisy chain, ma'am. Would you like to see how it works?" And I finish the daisy with three more chain links spaced evenly around the circle like they are supposed to be and quickly give it a stem and a leaf which doesn't turn out too bad, even though my fingers are trembling and sweaty with being watched by such a grand person. She keeps silence till I've finished and then says in her voice full of plums and a bit foreign, "That is very clever, dear, very pretty. Keep up the good work," and as she moves on to talk to another girl, I breathe in the smell of her, like a garden full of roses, what I have never smelled before on a human being.
Afterward I hears her asking Sister Mary about me and Nora, was we good girls and that sort of thing, but we soon forgot about her and that was it for a few months till my birthday-it was January 1911 when I turned fifteen-and me and Nora, whose birthday was just a few days before, gets a summons from Sister Beatrice, the head nun. This only usually happens when one of us has done something wicked like swearing "God" too many times or falling asleep in prayers, so you can imagine the state that Nora and me are in as we go up the stairs to the long corridor with the red Persian runner and go to stand outside the oak door with those carvings that look like folds of fabric in each panel. I am so panicked that I feel like fainting, and I can tell that Nora is trying to stifle the laugh that always bubbles up when she's nervous.
Sister calls us in and asks us to sit down on leather-seated chairs that are so high that my legs don't reach the ground and I have to concentrate hard on not swinging them 'cause I know that annoys grown-ups more than anything else in the world.
She turns to me first. "Miss Romano? I think it is your birthday today?" she asks, and I am so startled at being called "Miss" that I can't think of anything better to say than, "Yes, ma'am."
"Then God bless you, child, and let me wish you many happy returns of this day," she says, nearly smiling.
"Thank you, ma'am," I say, trying to ignore the way Nora's body is shaking beside me.
"Miss Featherstone?" says Sister, and I know that if Nora opens her mouth, the laugh will just burst out, so she just nods and keeps her head bent down, but this doesn't seem to bother Sister Beatrice, who just says, "I understand that you two are good friends, are you not?" I nod on behalf of us both, and she goes on, "I hear very positive things about the two of you, especially about your needlework skills, and I have some very exciting news."
She goes on to tell us that the grand lady who came a few months ago is a duchess and is the patron of the Needlework Society and was visiting to inspect the work that the convent was doing for the poor children of the city. She was so impressed by the needlework Nora and me showed her that she is sending her housekeeper to interview us about going into service.
A duchess! Well, you can imagine how excited we was but scared too, as we haven't a clue what to expect, and our imaginations go into overtime. We was going to live in a beautiful mansion with a huge garden and sew clothes for very important people, and Nora is going to fall in love with one of the chauffeurs but I have my sights set a bit higher, a soldier in the Light Brigade in his red uniform perhaps, or a city gent in a bowler hat. Either way, both of us are going to have our own comfortable houses next door to each other with little gardens where we can grow flowers and good things to eat and have lots of children who will play together, and we will live happily ever after.
There's a pause. She clears her throat loudly.
Forgive me, miss, don't mind if I has a smoke?
"Go ahead, that's fine. Let's have a short break."
No, I'll just light up and carry on, please, 'cause if I interrupt meself, I'll lose the thread.
A cigarette packet being opened, the click of a lighter, a long inward breath, and a sigh of exhaled smoke. Then she clears her throat and starts again.
Not that there's much chance of me forgetting that day, mind, when the duchess's housekeeper is coming to visit. We was allowed a special bath and then got dressed in our very best printed cottons, and Sister Mary helped us pin our hair up into the sort of bun that domestic servants wear and a little white lacy cap on top of that.
At eleven o'clock, we got summoned into Sister Beatrice's room again, and she looked us up and down and gave us a lecture about how we must behave to the visitor, no staring but making sure we look up when she speaks to us, no talking unless we are spoken to, answering clearly and not too long. She gives Nora a 'specially fierce look and says the word slowly in separate chunks so she's sure we understand: and there is to be ab-so-lute-ly no giggling.
"How you behave this morning will determine your futures, young ladies," she said. "Do not throw this opportunity away."
She went on some more about if we got chosen we must do our work perfectly and never complain or answer back or we'll be out on the streets because we can't never return to The Castle once we have gone. My fantasies melted on the spot. We was both so nervous even Nora's laugh had vanished.
The housekeeper was a mountain of a woman almost as wide as she was tall and fierce with eyes like ebony buttons, and she spoke to us like she was ordering a regiment into battle.
She wanted to see more examples of our needlework because, she said, we would be sewing for the highest in the land.
"The highest in the land?" Nora whispered as we scuttled off down the corridors to the needlework room to get our work. "What the heck does that mean?"
"No idea," I said. My brain was addled with fear, and I couldn't think straight for all me wild thoughts.
We were told to lay our work out on Sister Beatrice's table, and the mountain boomed questions at us: what is the fabric called, what needles did we use and what thread, why did we use those stitches, what did we think of the final result? We answered as well as we could, being clear but not too smart, just as Sister told us. One of my pieces was the start of a patchwork. I'd only finished a couple of dozen hexagons as yet, but I was pleased with the way it was shaping up, and when I showed her the design drawn in colored crayons on squared paper, she said, "The child has some artistic talent too."
"Indeed," Sister Beatrice said back, "Miss Romano is one of our best seamstresses," and my face went hot and red with pride.
When the housekeeper sat down, the poor old chair fair creaked in torment, and Nora's giggles returned, shaking her shoulders as Sister Beatrice poured the tea. Not for us, mind. We just stood and waited, my heart beating like I'd just run up all four staircases at The Castle, while they sipped their tea, oh so ladylike. She ate four biscuits in the time it took to give us a lecture about how we must, as she called it, comport ourselves if we was to be invited to join the duchess's household: no answering back, no being late for anything ever, no asking for seconds at dinner, no smoking, no boyfriends, wearing our uniform neat and proper every day, clean hands, clean face, clean hair, always up, no straggly bits.
When she stopped, there was a pause, and I was just about to say we are good girls, miss, very obedient girls, but she put her cup and saucer down on the table with a clonk and turned to Sister Beatrice and said, "I think these two will do very nicely. Our driver will come to collect them the day after tomorrow."
Oh my, that drive was so exciting. Don't forget, we'd been stuck in The Castle for most of our lives, never been in a coach, never even been out of the East End. Our eyes was on stalks all the way, like we had never seen the wonderful things passing by, watching the people doing their shopping, hanging out their washing, children playing. In one place, we passed a factory at clocking-off time and got stuck in a swarm of men on bicycles-like giant insects, they looked to us-and so many we quickly lost count. They saw us gawping through the coach windows and waved, which made them wobble all over the place, and it was an odd feeling to be noticed, not being invisible for once.
It was just as well we had plenty to distract us, 'cause by the time we'd said our good-byes at The Castle, both of us were blubbing. Strange, isn't it, you can spend so many years wishing yourself out of somewhere, and once you get out, all you want to do is go back? Not that I ever felt that about this place. It's a funny old feeling, coming here today, I can tell you.
"It was very good of you to take the trouble to see me."
Don't mention it, dearie. Makes a good day out, Nora said. Now, where was I?
"You were sad to leave The Castle."
Ah yes, them nuns was a kindly lot, as I think I've said before-forgive my leaky old brain, dearie-but they never showed it, not till the last minute when both Sister Mary and Sister Beatrice gave each of us a hug and pressed little parcels into our hands. I nearly suffocated in all those black folds, but this was what set me off on the weeping-it showed they really did care about us after all. We waved at all the other children peering through the windows and climbed up into the coach with the lay sister Emily, who was to be what Sister Beatrice called a chaperone.
After a while, the dirty old streets of the East End turned into clean, wide roads with pavements for people to walk and tall beautiful houses either side.
"I didn't know we was going to the countryside," Nora whispered to me, pointing out her side of the coach, and sure enough it was shrubs and trees stretching away as far as our eyes could see.
"That's Hyde Park, silly," sharp ears Emily said, "where the grand ladies and gentlemen go to take the air, to walk or ride." Well, that silenced us both-the very idea of having the time to wander freely in a beautiful place like that-and it wasn't long after that the coach passed beside a long, high wall and slowed down to enter a gate with guardsmen on either side, went around the back of a house so tall I had to bend down beside the window to catch a glimpse of the roof, and then we came to a stop.
We had arrived.
The voice stops and the tape winds squeakily for a moment or two then reaches the end, and the machine makes a loud clunk as it switches itself off.
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This book presents an array of Internet facilities and Web sites related to genealogy, illustrated with screenshots and enriched with examples, instructions and first-person testimonials - although it's fairly useless if you live outside the US.
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I've also met a couple of people since getting back from San Francisco with whom the subject of music arose. Two of them were on their way from Coachella to Brokechella and were talking about "soul" (in the sense that Maroon 5 are soul, I suppose) act, Fitz & the Tantrums. No one had heard of Ride or had the haziest notion of what shoegaze means. When I told them that Ride had played at Coachella they looked incredulous.
I've also met a couple of people since getting back from San Francisco with whom the subject of music arose. Two of them were on their way from Coachella to Brokechella and were talking about "soul" (in the sense that Maroon 5 are soul, I suppose) act, Fitz & the Tantrums. No one had heard of Ride or had the haziest notion of what shoegaze means. When I told them that Ride had played at Coachella they looked incredulous.
Inspired by the reunion of shoegaze greats Slowdive, Amoeblogger Brad Schelden and I have compiled our list of favorite shoegaze albums.
For any who don't know, shoegaze is a style of music rooted in the noise pop of The Jesus & Mary Chain and dream pop of Cocteau Twins from the early '80s. In the late '80s and early '90s, bands took elements put forth by those bands—loud, distorted guitars, heavily reverbed vocals and emphasis on atmosphere over discernable lyrics—and came up with a new sound, first truly realized by My Bloody Valentine on their classic 1988 album, Isn't Anything. Shoegaze (or shoegazing) was a term NME and Melody Maker in the U.K. used to describe the visual representation of the sound from bands who rose in My Bloody Valentine's wake, depicting bands' apparent lack of movement onstage and propensity to stare down at their numerous effects pedals. The genre hit its heyday in the early '90s but persists today, with bands like My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver reuniting and artists like M83 and Diiv using elements of their sound (so-called nu-gaze, but I'll avoid that terrible term). So with that lengthy explanation, here we go.
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
2. Pearl Jam - Jeremy
3. The Cure - A Letter to Elise
4. Nirvana - Come As You Are
5. U2 - One
6. Toad the Wet Sprocket - All I Want
7. Shakespear's Sister - Stay
8. Pearl Jam - Even Flow
9. Morrissey - Tomorrow
10. R.E.M. - Drive
11. James - Born of Frustration
12. Sugarcubes - Hit
13. The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
14. Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
15. L7 - Pretend that We're Dead
16. Peter Gabriel - Digging in the Dirt
17. The Charlatans - Weirdo
18. Cause & Effect - You Think You Know Her
19. Annie Lennox - Why
20. Alice in Chains - Would
The box is officially called "The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit Pop Gems of the Last Millennium." It really looks awesome. The box is shaped like one of those red telephone booths in England. I have never seen one up close but we all know what they look like. It even has a working light. It also comes with an 80 page book of interviews and photos. It includes essays by Alan Mcgee, Stephen Street, and Alan Moulder. It drives me a little crazy when box sets or collections have a random order to the track listing. So it made me happy to see that the tracks are all in a basic order. The box set is not perfect. But it comes really close. I own or have owned at one point almost all of the songs in this box. If I didn't own one of the albums that all these songs were on, then I definitely had a close friend that did. I might have picked a couple different songs for some of these artists and I probably would have included a couple more artists. But overall, the box is very impressive. I really can't wait to open one up and read all those interviews and stories in that fancy little booklet. And I can not wait to listen to all these songs again. I have never stopped listening to most of the bands in this box. The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, The Stone Roses, Lush, Suede, Blur, & Pulp remain some of my favorite bands. It is really hard to even put into words the lasting effect that these bands have had on me and on a whole generation of music fans.
But not much from that very important time in music which was the early 90's. I might be a bit biased about this period since this is also the period in which I graduated high school and started college. A period when my obsession with music and bands really developed. There have already been some great Slowdive and Pulp reissues, so those will not be on the list. The first two Ride albums "Going Blank Again" and "Nowhere" have also been reissued. But all these reissues are just imports, so I'm still hopeful they will be cheaper domestic versions out soon. There is a possibility that Morrissey will be going back to Warner! He is currently without a label again. Which is great news, since that is where his catalogue as well as the Smith's resides. It can't be too long until we see some great Rhino style Smiths and Morrissey reissues!
I originally was going to go through my CDs and just grab the ones that stood out from the 90s. When I was done, I looked at all the albums and realized all the bands were from England and all the albums were put out in the early 90's. I also realized these were the dirtiest and most used CD's in my collection. They have been through a lot and have been played many times and traveled all up and down the coast of California. It started out as 10 but quickly changed to 12. I could have easily went on and made a list of 25 but I had to stop somewhere. So here it is....My list of the top 12 british albums of the early 90's that I would like to see reissued...
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Emley is a Grade II listed substantial farmstead in an idyllic rural setting. The farmhouse and surrounding buildings are largely unaltered since the nineteenth century and retain a unique charm and character. Many original features remain such as the internal well and large fireplaces. The reception rooms are spacious and there is a traditional country kitchen.
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Accessibility: There are uneven floors throughout the cottage with some low beams. There are wooden raised steps into each room (access may be difficult if elderly or mobility impaired)
Please Note: Up to a maximum of 10 bags of sweet chestnut logs per stay can be ordered in advance via Contact Centre at a cost of £6.00 per bag. The wood supplied is sweet chestnut, cut from local National Trust coppiced woodland. Please be aware that the doors to the stoves need to be kept closed at all times as the wood has a tendency to split: the stoves work more efficiently with doors closed.
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Secluded, relatively unaltered, atmospheric. Beautiful walks. Devil's punchbowl nearby. Molly had prepared it very well and left us a welcome card.
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Over the past couple of weeks, we ran a contest where we gave away a hat knitted by our host and managing editor Brooke Gladstone to one randomly selected new subscriber to our weekly newsletter. Here's a picture of one of Brooke's hats being modeled by Radiolab's Jad Abumrad. Doesn't it flatter?!:
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Mostar Day Trip from Dubrovnik
Read what other Viator.com travelers think about the Mostar Day Trip from Dubrovnik. What they loved, what they liked and what they think could be improved, it's all here to help you make the most of your next trip.
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Long day but well timed stops. Very good guide in Mostar.
Our guide on the coach was lovely, she gave us lots of history of the Dubrovnik Republic and several of the bays and towns we passed through. It was nice to stop twice to break up the journey a bit. Mostar itself was very pretty and there was enough time to see the major attractions. The local food was absolutely delicious too. Only recommendation is to be very vigilant with personal belongings!!
Great day trip tour guides super and informative. Maybe a little long but then its quite a way to travel.
It was a long but well worth it tour! It really opens your eyes up to how Bosnia is still recovering from the war after 20 years later!
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Tour as good Guide was great
A good day trip with lots of interesting places to see and history to learn. Our guide in Mostar was very informative and we appreciated her informative tour.
A very enjoyable and informative day. Our bus guide was excellent and we learnt a lot about Croatia and in particular the 1990's Homeland war. Our Mostar guide was also excellent and it was good to hear the history first hand.
Fantastic trip.. Plenty stop off points.. Lots of time to explore..tour guide excellent
A great tour which provides you with lots of information about Southern Dalmatia and Mostar. The main tour guide worked tirelessly explaining the various locations in both English and German to the group. In Mostar the local guide took a slightly quirky and humourous approach to explaining the history of the town, but was also very informative. It was a long day, with 2 slightly drawn out border crossings and 35°C temp in Mostar, but we'll worth it.
We had a great day in Mostar. Our tour guide was very friendly and was very informative during the drive along the coast towards Bosnia and Herzegovina. The short stop in a little village along the way was nice - we climbed our way to the top of the hill and reached the top of the derelict castle. Great views from up there.
In Mostar we had a different guide who was very knowledgeable and friendly. We started in the tourist centre and learned about Mostar during the war. She then took us over the famous bridge and to the small mosque next to it. She also gave us a good recommendation for lunch.
December is low season in Dubrovnik, so there were only 4 of us on the tour.
There was a lot of driving, but the car was comfortable and there were enough comfort breaks (including one just over the border so we could buy some cheaper local wine on the way back).
All in all - a great day. Thanks
Wonderful scenery. The guided tour of Mostar was interesting. It was nice to have a couple of hours to explore the city on our own afterwards.
Very interesting tour - Mostar old town well work seeing. Ideal for those who love border crossings
Very good tour, well paced, worth the time and effort.
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The bridge was even better than I expected, and it was interesting to see the contrast between the clean modern buzz of Croatia and the relative post communist drabness of Bosnia
Well worth the money. They picked us up at on of the big hotels in our proximity and drove us to the bus which we were going to drive to Mostar. Both guides (one on the bus and one local in Mostar) spoke both very good english and french. Interesting and not too long. Recommended.
The scenery along the way is breathtaking and Mostar is a very beautiful town.
Once again Eda and George were fantastic and we can't fault them at all. The drive along the coastline was beautiful and we would have liked to have stopped for a photo or two. We stopped at a restored town en-route to Mostar but only spent 20 minutes there which was disappointing. Pity we couldn't have a little less time in Mostar. The guide in Mostar was very good. We spent the free time shopping in the old town and having lunch. All in all a good day which we wouldn't have missed, but if we had to choose between Montenegro and Mostar, we would definitely choose Montenegro.
Interesting tour - out of season so just 2 tourists a guide and a driver in a Mercedes which was great, just a shame about the weather. Driver and guide very knowledgable, giving much information on the region.
Wonderful to return since our visit in 1990 - the hostess on the bus was excellent. Only down side which wasn't Viator's fault - Mostar's building still suffer from the war - children sleeping/begging on the street - church in excellent shape though!!!!
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Mostar was worth going to, especially the guide who was full of historical information about its past and present. I would recommend this full day tour.
We enjoyed the day, The main drawback was the wait of over an hour at the Bosnian border. The guide did not make any announcements as to what was going on.
Very pleasant three hours in a beautiful old town with a very knowledgeable guide, took a while to get there and back, but probably worth it rather than staying nearer to Mostar
Great value trip with excellent guide and driver. Real experience going through the borders. Mostar was very interesting and the information given by the local guide gave us an insight to the area. Ample free time to have lunch and soak up the atmosphere. Altogether a well worth while trip.
Very interesting trip and worth the long trip (we were out for around 11.5 hours in the end). Mostar itself can get very hot, so remember to take hat/suncream/water etc if you go in the summer!
The bus tour was way better than trying to do the same thing in a rent car, especially with border hassles. The commentary was good--would have liked some more engagement with the muslim community, since this is the only access to it from Dobrovnik


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I like bbws, but they need to make a new category for this bitch. I'll bet that's the most excersize she's ever gotten!
daammmm i would fuckkk u hard
God she is sexy....I love it when she's going crazy riding and bouncing on his face! I'd love to be under there licking and kissing that sexy pussy...making her shake and scream as she squirts that lovely juice right into my mouth!!!
Gee! he can't even find the hole, at least they should have used a guy with the enormous dick!
I was feeling not well because I was 210 pounds... and now I feel sudently extremly sexy and Im gonna fuck my men ... hard core tonight... I feel like my boobs are huge and stuff LOL.
Someone had to many twinkes over spring break!!!! Lol
She is amazingly beautiful, a squirter(HUGE PLUS!), and a passionate fucker! I would marry her in a heartbeat!
ok i would beat off to this but not fuck the bich is huge and dude carnt mf hard on silly man at least he gets payed
Some straight guys have no limits!
she is absolutely gorgeous, VERY sexy. Not sure y he wasnt hard cuz i was n came a few times. Love her body.
She is my dream girl.I would be in heaven after fucking her.No words to describe her....
Title should be, "Man Fucks Jabba the Slutt"
well people, i always wanted to know what it was like to watch a bald mammoth have sex ,, and know i do,, you know the end the guy is like,,,,please get off my leg,,hhaaah
Way too much over acting. If I were with her I'd tell her to shut all that fake moaniing up.
i think he is gunna die
she's perfect for me!
all that vigerous sex made her waters break at the end :p
wow. not the best body but HOLY SHIT she is an ANIMAL. i love women that are agressive like that muy sexy
how does his tiny dick make it all the way in to her pussy?
my god u are meaking meeee crazy, Im very crazy for sexi like this
Dont know why but I blow my load so hard to this!! Would love to have my tongue down her pussy make her squirt all over my face and taste it!!!!
i would fuck the shit out of her said thing about some of these guys in the pornos cant get it up
Scared :o
omg, she can't stop
He fucked her to the end... wawuuu like it I would like to fuck a woman like this. I have a very big dick
All very hot bbws but the nasty black one would get it hardest
This is so funny the guy's fucking bored and trying to think of pretty thoughts, the chick loves it. Its like reverse lol. But she has a pretty face i'll admit just a really disgusting body.
BBW? OBW more like, I love plump or chubby girls, this chick is pretty but c`mon...she`s morbidly obese, not for me.
oh god poor guy
who is she?
I had my wife watch this video and she actually gained weight and has learned how to squirt when she saw how turned on it made me.
I can't even watch the entire video...O.o, but the end where she's getting off and squirting gets me off every time (and I'm a girl)! One of the hottest things ever for some reason. :/
ang tibay ng sikmura mo boy,,,ibang klase ka.
She is a dream girl,at least for me.Great fuck ever.
What is up with the head flicking
I love how this woman is confident and comfortable in her own skin. And I'm jealous of how often she squirts! She's pure magic. :) Keep cumming. :)
best bbw ever i would lick het pussy and ass to
pay attention young boys and girls that is how a woman fucks a man and how a man pleases a woman
Condem? Really? Condem
He couldn't even get hard
She isn't hot but wow she's sexy, the squirting, the noises and her obvious love for having sex, i'd fuck her
That made me cum!! So sexy!!!
i would eat her cum and make her gush
I hope they paid that guy a lot of money to fuck her
This appalling for bigger women, lawd!
Can one of you fuck me
id kill to have that on my face, my only real fetish.. seriously hot..
this girl is so awesome!! lol..whats ur name?
This chick get my dick so hard, awesome video!
I whached this and mastebatied and I got my whole bed wet
brilliant cum would love to have her squirt on me
Big dude Im not fat Im fluffy anyway I like my women short with small amount of fluff
What an enormous beauty! Her small sidehanging tits are very cute :) Has to be awesome to get hat fat juicy pussy right in your face. I bet her cunt smells adorable fishy and tastes delicious...
does anyone know who this woman is???
I love big girls they turn me on
that was awesome the woman dominated and got what she wanted, nice squirt.
Bridget Waters.
I'm a chubby girl (5'5", 184 lbs.) and I'd love for her to sit on my face. This is one of the hottest videos I've ever seen, what I wouldn't give to have it be me buried in her ass and pussy... Mmm.
The guy isn't that bad looking but it took him forever to get his dick hard and he had his face all up in her junk haha!!
that is not a bbw
This is my new hot video. I've jerked off to it almost every day this week, imagining she's riding my face and dick. I love seeing and hearing a woman come. The chick is hot. I'd kill for a woman like her. I find her just as sexy as the svelte model sexy chicks. Maybe even hotter.
bbw creampied by group of blacks
GROSS!!! Rolls of fat jiggling & a tiny dick!! WTF??
hace reir en ves de exitar
whatz her name???
I give props to her for suckin on that little ass d*ck
'elle simule pas celle la juste une peut baucou'
Fucking massive heart attack waiting to happen! Fucking HOT!
@ PornWatcher, I'm sure his little dick was the result of her nudity! It took him nearly 13 minutes to suppress that image enough to become erect. No one can blame him. She was ridding his face like a skinny girl should. She had the fucking audacity to sit on his face, I'm so glad her enormous pussy doubles as a rebreather!
Can u get off my leg,, lol, and I dont think this is fake to the ones who think it is, fake dont ask to stop while there bodies a are going threw an orgasm that requires to tense up so much she can bearly move just shake,, and I think this was her 1000th try at getting sex years of build up unleashed on an innocent soul, agree with getting actor with bigger cock, but they have boundarys obviously
she is everywhere!
what movie is this from
I didn't think they have sex, the woman just want to eat him!!
@omg "Gee! he can't even find the hole, at least they should have used a guy with the enormous dick!" ...all the porn stars with dicks bigger than 4 inches wouldn't go near this thing. i wouldn't. i like bbws...but FUCK...yeah right. there is no way in hell. normal people wouldn't go near that. never thought i'd say it...but way too extreme for me.
so so good woman with so so bad man
What did she eat for breakfast..? :)
nice big wamen i love it......
does anyone know her name
for a short moment I thought his head was fully in her big as! she's hot!!!!
i can't see the dick----oh sorry ;_;
who is she
she ate the condom
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We were left disappointed and underwhelmed after our experience of dining at Hanse-Stube. We had the tasting menu which provided lackluster dishes which were lacking flavour and anything memorable.
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FIVE AWARD WINNING MUSICIANS produced by GRAMMY winner, WILL ACKERMAN, perform solo and in collaboration in this Gathering Concert. BARBARA HIGBIE (piano/violin/vocals), DAVID CULLEN (guitar), JILL HALEY (oboe and English horn), DAVID LINDSAY (guitar), and TOM EATON, (piano) offer a rare evening of extraordinary music!
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Called the empress of the unexpected by NPR, Susan Werner composes skillful songs that effortlessly slide between folk, jazz, and pop, all delivered with sassy wit and classic Midwestern charm. Throughout her expansive career, boundless versatility has emerged as a hallmark of Werner's talent, and has proven to be a quintessential ingredient of her engrossing musical persona. Her latest CD, "Kicking The Beehive," features Vince Gill, Keb' Mo' and Paul Franklin, features 11 of her songs that are provocative, lyrical, poignant and honest. She is the composer of the musical "Bull Durham" opening this fall on Broadway.
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