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“For if we do find answers for how to brave the present, with its floods and fires, and still keep the faith, they won’t come from us alone. They will come from the strength that results from a tightened weave, story after story, between ourselves and our places.”

—from Jenny Odell’s Afterword to the US edition of Nan Shepherd’s THE LIVING MOUNTAIN, published in 2025 by Scribner

thenation.com/article/culture/

The Nation · Why “The Living Mountain” EnduresNan Shepard’s classic of nature writing and memoir is an education in how to reorient one's attention to a landscape and its lifeforms, human and nonhuman.

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I wad ha’e gi’en him my lips tae kiss,
Had I been his, had I been his…

—Marion Angus, “Mary’s Song”
published in THE TINKER’S ROAD & Other Verses (1924)

Marion Angus (1865–1946) was born #OTD, 27 March

“She has an authentic voice straight out of the ballad tradition, an eerie shimmer to her best poems”
—Kathleen Jamie

A hailstorm damaged ANU's second-oldest building — see the restoration five years on
By Greg Jennett

Like all ambitious rebuilds, it comes complete with drama, delay, cost overruns and the grit to persevere through to completion.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-27/anu

ABC News · Five years after a damaging hailstorm, ANU is on deadline to restore its second-oldest buildingBy Greg Jennett
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“This is a perfect, hearty, oat-y bread with a lovely ginger flavor. It’s delicious and moist when fresh, but still excellent toasted and buttered the next day”

The History in the Making website shares F. Marian McNeill’s recipe for Broonie – a traditional oatmeal gingerbread from Orkney

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history-in-the-making.com/2021

History in the Making · BroonieBroonie is a traditional oatmeal gingerbread from the Orkney Islands in Scotland. This particular recipe comes from the folklorist F. Marian McNeill, who collected traditional recipes for her 1929 …