Two books just gone live:
The wannabe Regency Miss’s survival guide to real life – all the details and nitty gritty to help authors of Regency romances and I hope of interest to the reader of Regency Romances too
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TLMH1Y5
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08TLMH1Y5
Dance of Justice – the fourth in the ‘Dance’ subseries of the Last Winged Hussar books, in which Mariola gets her man where the substarosta is the 18th century Polish mountie.
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TLP78CR
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08TLP78CR
Lovely, thankyou for the heads up as I hadn't spotted them myself. Mary D
ReplyDeletethe PBs had literally just gone live and I do wait until both pb and ebook are out
DeleteI just bought them, before reading your post!
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hehe enjoy!
DeleteIm reading the Regency Miss...Guide.
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Just got to the Panadas. You comment about the amount of salt and butter.
I think, there was always chances of infections, which would mean sweating, so the salt, apart from flavour, would have helped replace tye body salts.
And butter. If a person was not eating much, the butter would help them feel fuller, possibly, but also help the passing of waste easier.
I think nutritionists today deal with very different human animal, especially in our 'western world', where we are not as mobile as we should be. Even the top ten thousand moved more than a good number of us do now.
Many old wives remedies had certain items which work, whether we are in a first world life, or a third world life.
Just discovering what actually does work is an adventure........
oh, thank you, the thought nowadays is fairly horrifying, but you are right, we are different to what we were. and those make perfect sense. I've made a note in my hard copy to insert in a later edition.
DeleteAnother thought there - the butter would be a source of protein and calcium.
Yes it would. An adult 'man' may baulk at drinking milk, but would not say no to butter. You're right there.
ReplyDeleteGood, glad I'm on the right track there. I was also thinking that not everyone has the lactose tolerance gene but more people seem able to tolerate butter, which when unwell milk might make them queasy.
DeleteAnd mostly milk would be boiled to keep a day or so. Not cool from a fridge, so that taste is different too.
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DeleteHot from the cow is one thing ...
Those photos of materials are fab!
ReplyDeletethanks! I couldn't find any good definitive photos so I raided my stash.
DeleteSorry to say this, the para where Mrs. Robertshaw turns up in December 1804 at the end of that para, Robertshaw is missing the T
ReplyDeletethree beta's one editor and a proof-reader; what can I say?
DeleteI thought i loved the adverts you've put in, but those sleeves.....mwah!
ReplyDeletehehe I'm glad you like them; I got so frustrated at having trouble tracking down what various sleeves meant so I figured best thing to do is let a picture say a thousand words. Same for the hairstyles.
DeleteI'm at dangers. Will keep commenting. I needed something to calm me. This is doing a fab job.
ReplyDeletePictures....what can i say?
You are absolutely correct. They say more than words.
sorry you need calming but glad to be of service.
DeleteIn Dangers, last para where you say diseases spread through households, a reason would also be the sharing of beds of siblings, in larger families, and us plebs not having individual beds and rooms. Body warm in the cold, ease of spread of disease in the cold....
ReplyDeleteit is a point, and not just plebs, a lot of families saw no problem with two to a bed. and that persisted, my great aunt and gran shared a bed, and my gran survived diptheria because her little sister used a crochet hook to heave out the membrane every couple of hours day and night until she got better. My great aunt never took any illness.
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