Ep. 693: Cranford | Chapter 15
Book talk begins at 22:26
Cranford wraps up with surprise marriages, booming tea sales, Mrs. Jamieson’s selective approval, and the long-awaited return of a familiar face—serving one final cup of genteel drama and heartwarming resolution.
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0:00 Episode start
3:20 JULY – Botanical Knits: 12 Designs inspired by trees and foliage by Alana Davos of Never Not Knitting
04:57 THIS WEEK’S TEA: Gratitude Blend https://bit.ly/craftlit-pdtea
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07:10- review of Knit Nation
9:00 stitch of the month
around 10:08 – I’m talking about what NOT to use the stitch for around 10:29 here’s my swatch
around 12:18 color header pic The inner edge of odd pages has the page number 🙁
22:26 START BOOK TALK
22:30 We had a marvelous chapter 14, and the start of Miss Matty’s tea chop (and comfit dispensary)
23:17 HumanKind: a hopeful history by Rutger Bregman
25:00 TEA!
Congou – Chinese Black tea popular in 19th Century
(Lapsang) Souchong – fine variety of above; smoked-dried over pinewood fires (so it takes kind of marvelously smokey)
Gunpowder – fine type of green tea – EACH LEAF is rolled up to look granular (I checked, and yes, you can watch the leaves unroll while it steeps!)
Pekoe – superior black tea picked when leaves are still young and downy (Plum Deluxe has a Pekoe Ceylon Tea—because pekoe is actually a tea grade not a falvor profile!)
26:31 – Holy smoke! Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary is ONLINE now!
26:50 – The old Hundredth – musical version of Psalm 100 “All people that on earth do dwell” (Heather actually played it on the piano for you!)
28:05 – Baron Munchausen stories, all free to read or download: Public Domain Texts – Raspe’s Original English Edition (1785) The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
→ Project Gutenberg – Bürger’s German Expansion (1786)
Wunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und Lande, Feldzüge und lustige Abenteuer des Freiherrn von Münchhausen
→ German Text on Projekt Gutenberg-DE – Illustrated Edition (Gustave Doré, 1862)
Beautifully illustrated version:
→ Internet Archive Scan – English Edition with Illustrations (1895)
Baron Munchausen: His Travels and Surprising Adventures in Russia (Includes famous illustrations)
→ Project Gutenberg Free Audiobooks – LibriVox (English audiobook)
→ Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (LibriVox) – LibriVox (German audiobook)
→ Wunderbare Reisen… (LibriVox)
30:46 – More on the Siege of Rangoon (1824)
32:20 – Chapter Audio
01:06:22 – Post-chapter Notes
Miscellaneous
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