#Avon new

[oxideblack]

[dailydccomics]

Superman, Supergirl, and The Flash by Michael Avon Oeming

[greencheekconure27]

I've only had Avon for 5 1/2 episodes but if anything happens to him....

[agelessphotography]

Cobblestone House, Avon, NY, Minor White, 1958

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Janet Frame - Faces In The Water - Bard/Avon - 1972

[my-secret-shame]

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

There is love, tender and tempestuous. . . .

Curt Wiley, a handsome Texas engineer, came to town. . . .

Judy hated Curt the moment she met him. . . .

Then, . . . Judy discovered that Curt was not the playboy he appeared to be . . . but a decent sensitive human being . . . who seemed to be falling in love with her.

Judy found herself head over heels in love!

Suddenly, Neal Bentley seemed dull and uninteresting to Judy.

By spring she had made a decision . . . a decision that was as much a surprise to Judy as it will be to you.

A surprise? Really? The promotional blurbs project the ending before we even get to the first chapter:

I told you . . . I wasn't worth it. I'm not the steady sort -- say, like your friend, Neal Bentley. . . . I won't make any girl a very good husband. Bentley seems like the right sort for you. . . . She had to choose between the rootlessness of a life as a construction man's wife, or the steady, homespun love of her childhood sweetheart. . . .

A surprise? Neal Bentley, hint, hint. This is staid New England in the 1950s, after all, where:

"When the sap runs in the maple grove . . . that's spring in New England. Spring always comes after the snow -- after the storm.". . Love like Neal's could guarantee that, no matter what came, spring or storm, . . their love -- would never change.

Indeed, there's definitely more sap than steam in New England Nurse by the prolific nurse romance novelist Adelaide Humphries (a pseudonym for Adelaide Morris Rowe, 1898-1979), first published in pulp paperback by Avon Books in 1956. We do appreciate the cover art, however, with its chilly color palate, asymmetrical design, and the nurse who looks, as our intern Ana observed, "like she's so over it, but at the same time still into it." We wish we knew who the cover artist was. And then there's that keen observation about regional differences: "I'm a Texan, not a New Englander. A roamer, not a rock." And there you have it, in a nutshell.

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[periodically80s]

[danielleurbansblog]

Review: Puppy Love at Mistletoe Junction

Synopsis: From the author of Dog Days Forever, a heartfelt, holiday contemporary romance, in which a young woman returns to her small hometown and ends up fostering a pregnant dog with—of all people—the man she used to love. Lucy Buchanan and Theo Taylor have never gotten along…like ever. Not when they were children, not when they were teenagers, and definitely not as adults…though that last…

[dawdlingbiscuit]

[coastal-kate]

found in avon-by-the-sea, new jersey

[oxideblack]

[mariocki]

Play for Today: Come the Revolution (BBC, 1977)

"You see, heavy irony is good, so long as it's so heavy we know it's irony."

"Right, we'll change it for Sunday."

"Medical inspection bit, solid fun. And the RSM bit, especially the wig joke: that's universal."

"Oh! We thought that was corny."

"No!"

"We couldn't think of anything else."

"Corny's very useful to us. It gets straight through to the people. They like corn, recognise it."

[niyabeauty]

Hi my name is Niya and I am trying new things to get some extra cash don’t be shy and take a look

[shakespearenews]

Beyond “compelling” stylistic evidence, the sonnet, titled To the Deserving Author, is signed with the mysterious pseudonym Cygnus, after the mythical figure who was turned into a swan – evoking Jonson’s very own tribute to Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon as the “Sweet Swan of Avon”.

Dr Chris Laoutaris, an associate professor of Shakespeare and early modern drama at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, told the Guardian: “This is how Jonson referred to him in his long poem in honour of the playwright in the first folio mourning Shakespeare’s ‘flight’ as the swan, whose living presence shall never again grace England’s stages.”

[treebury-upon-avon]

The Treebury Calendar

Treebury uses a lunisolar calendar - this means that it is based on the cycle of the moon, but is different from a pure lunar calendar as it changes slightly (will get into this later)

Months

Treeburys calendar has 12 months in every year, but every 2/3 years there is an extra 13th, or leap month added (more detail in years section)

Months alternate between light months of 30 days, and dark months of 29 days, with every year always beginning with a light month

The month names are currently still in progress, however named months are as follows:

January - 1 - Marwfis - Light

February - 2 - Chwefror - Dark

March - 3 - - Light

April - 4 - - Dark

May - 5 - - Light

June - 6 - Cyntefin - Dark

July - 7 - Mehefin - Light

August - 8 - Gorffennaf - Dark

September - 9 - Medi - Light

October - 10 - Hydref - Dark

November - 11 - - Light

December - 12 - Rhagfyr - Dark

Bonus - 13 - - Light

Years

The cycle leap months are added in goes as follows:

Year 1 - Leap month

Year 2 - No leap month

Year 3 - No leap month

Year 4 - Leap month

Year 5 - No leap month

Year 6 - No leap month

Year 7 - Leap month

Year 8 - No leap month

Year 9 - Leap month

Year 10 - No leap month

Year 11 - No leap month

Year 12 - Leap month

Year 13 - No leap month

Year 14 - No leap month

Year 15 - Leap month

Year 16 - No leap month

Year 17 - No leap month

Year 18 - Leap month

Year 19 - No leap month

This cycle of months is referred to as an Ennea (pl. Enneae) and is the main form of refering to long periods of time

For instance, as most people in treebury live very long lives due to their elf blood: they would say I am 4 Enneae and 7 years (etc. etc. this is an example)

Weeks

Every month consists of 4 weeks of seven days each, and as each month is longer than 28 days, the last one/two days of the months are a holiday (more explanation later)

Every week begins on a Monday, and every month therefore also begins on a Monday see

(Holi)Days

Monday thru Friday are all working days, with Saturday being preparation market or a free day, and Sunday being the market from 10am - 3pm (if you sell at market, otherwise it is whenever and how long) followed by a free day.

Work is mostly done in the mornings of the day, and the afternoons are for walks, spending time with friends and other hobbies. Friday evenings are a celebration of the past week, and dinner that night is a communal event shared with friends (anywhere from one friend to like half the town)

The 1/2 spare days at the end of the month are also a time of celebration, and the treebers love to change the flowers around their house at this time, listen to music in the town square and collaborate on a new town welcome sign as well as other decorations.

At the end of each year in either the last day of Rhagfyr or the last day of the 13th month, there is an end of year celebration! This celebration contains all end of the month traditions as well as several others! There is a firefly show in the sky (please note that this is very similar to fireworks but without the noise and due to the nature of the show no fireflies are harmed and therefore do not plague me with the ethics of the firefly show) as well as a large feast with a special apple pie recipe and present giving and dancing in the town square.

At the end of every Ennea there is a week long celebration of dancing and music, with loads of food and present giving, and the town decorated specially for the occasion! The town is lovely and bustling, and there are loads of craft stalls and food stalls etc. around for the people of treebury to enjoy! At the end of the week there is a massive firefly celebration and different family traditions, with several people opting to have hot chocolate with friends.