This week we’re celebrating one of my favourite festivals: Navaratri. More specifically, autumn Navaratri. The name comes from the Sanskrit words for nine (nava) and night (ratri), and over the…
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I’m curled up on the armchair by my bedroom window as I write this, watching a red kite gliding through the air. It’s low today. It’s bloody huge! There was…
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I’ve been reading a lot about humanism this week; mainly about Niccolò Machiavelli’s take on it versus Lorenzo de’ Medici’s. Lorenzo believed that anything was possible and, therefore, worth trying,…
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But it would be a while yet before they could eat. While the gentlemen were settled with hot food and plenty of drink, the servants stood about, each near their…
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