Always Advent

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…Grand Duchess Clare the Toothsome of Longer Interval.

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Grand Duchess Clare the Toothsome of Longer Interval Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

I am also known as the Entirely Miss Reverend Lady Clare the Eldritch of Porton Down:

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Entirely Miss Reverend Lady Clare the Eldritch of Porton Down Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

So there.

You may bow your knee before me. And you may obtain your own Peculiar Aristocratic Title if you desire. And tell me your titles, too!

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CatholicExchange is running a good article in the wake of the newest Harry Potter movie:
C.S. Lewis, Spiritual Warfare, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Good stuff!

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This is Number One Daughter’s current stack o’ books. Click on the photo for an image big enough to read the titles.

Note the 17-tear cicadas, which have been fascinating us, dive-bombing us, crawling on us, keeping us indoors during the day due to their noise–according to the Wikipedia entry on cicadas, they are “the most efficient and loudest sound-producing insects in the world.” We have them by the billions, I think, in my neighborhood.

Number One Daughter and Number Two Daughter have each eaten one. Number One Son has declined to do so, as have I.