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Originally posted on Nico and Amy's Literary Kitchen:
Dear readers, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is not for the abstinent: detailed recipes of luxurious Brazilian food, interspersed with carnivalesque descriptions of love scenes and frequent complaints about an…

Originally posted on GALLERATI:
Extracts from my day job | Place North West One of my favourite aspects of my day job is getting to talk to architects about their designs, motivations and what gets them up in the morning.…

Originally posted on East of Kentucky:
I’m scared to even be writing this because I think I’ve become world’s worst/most hated blogger. I’m not going to make any excuses (even though I have a lot) and I’ll just let you…

Originally posted on In Search of Lost (Reading) Time:
This post is mainly going to be an imaged based one, for the sole reason that no amount of prose of mine will be able to accurately relate the spectacle of…

Originally posted on GALLERATI:
Emily Allchurch | Manchester Art Gallery | 13 March – 8 June 2015 “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”, bemoaned the…

Originally posted on roaming dave:
Las Fallas is a festival that takes place in the early spring. The festival coincides with St. Joseph’s Day, or Father’s Day in Europe. Originally, Las Fallas was a type of “spring cleaning” where citizens of Valencia…

Originally posted on Modern Mooch:
What happens to functionalist architecture when it ceases to function? It ceases to function. Standing on the A6 in the centre of the town, once home to a warren of postal workers, sorting mail in preparation…

Originally posted on Herbology Manchester:
The Manchester Museum came to a standstill this morning as the staff stood transfixed watching the partial solar eclipse over Manchester’s cloudy skies. Only a few hours to go until our next spectacle as the…

Originally posted on Modern Mooch:
There is a stall in Ashton Indoor Market that almost defies description, an Aladdin’s cave, a cornucopia of kitchenalia – if they don’t have, it probably doesn’t exist. I visited here as a little lad…

Originally posted on Coat Hanger Doll's House:
In a few months time I will be going to Brazil, it will be my third visit.  On previous visits we have explored art galleries and museums for examples of Brazilian art.…