"What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" by Daniel Pool

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This was a fascinating book full of facts on 19th century English life. If you like to read 19th century novels (Austen, Dickens, Hardy, Thackery) then this will be an interesting and enlightening book to read. The book explains everything from life in town, to workhouses; it describes etiquitte and society, status (and how to address someone by their proper title), the church, the government, clothing, food, servants, marriage and even entails (which makes Pride and Prejudice a bit clearer).




This book also has a wonderful glossary with definitions of words adn phrases often used at that time period which we may not know today. An excellent reference if you are ever stumped while reading.




This is a must read for anyone who loves Victorian literature.




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Soccer

Lizzy has been playing soccer for a couple months and just finished. She had lots of fun running around and playing with her team mates. Lizzy says her favourite part of soccer is half time when the whole team gets a snack.

The Kids Today

The kids today.

A couple new pictures

A couple new pictures.

Gabe is so hard to catch on camera. He moves around too much. Most of the pictures I have of him are blurry :)

Lizzy loves to wear all the same colour. She will try and have pink shorts, pink skirt, pink shirt, pink socks and even pink underwear.

Lizzy made this mermaid today from a craft book she got from the school library. The tail is made from aluminum foil and dabs of glitter glue. She had a blast making it. More about this craft and the book on my other blog.

Ballet Photos

Lizzy has been in ballet this year and really loved it. Here are her year end photos:

Cricut

I finally got a Cricut! I've been wanting one for a while now and am so happy that it has arrived. Happy Mother's Day to me! Here are my first attempts:

Isn't this giraffe absolutley adorable? It's from the Sugar and Spice cartridge.

I love using the "shadow" on the text.

Lizzy's favourite because it is tall, and the presents pop out.

I really like the colours on this one.

Having a fun time with fonts on the Plantin SchoolBook cartridge.

Happy Birthday Adam!

Adam turned the big 3-0 on the twenty-fith of April. We had a nice family dinner on his birthday and some yummy angel food cake (his favourite). He didn't have to work on his birthday (bonus!) because it was Easter Monday and the office was closed, so it was nice to relax and just hang out together. We had had a busy weekend before that. We drove the 6 hours to Edmonton for our ward temple trip. Thankfully we were able to stay with some friends and they watched the kids while Adam and I assisted with the youth baptisms then did a session together. That night we took the kids to the West Edmonton Mall, looked around, ate out and then watched the movie Rio in the big theater. Dawson Creek has one screen, and it isn't much of theater, so going to the big theater was a lot of fun. We even watched Rio in 3-D and the kids loved that. I was surprised at how well Gabe did. He watched the whole movie and kept the glasses on most of the time. When we got out of the move, Gabe even wanted to keep wearing the glasses.

When we got back from Edmonton I don't think Adam was expecting much for his birthday. But I surpised him the day after with a party! More details here on my other blog. It was a lot fun. We had a BBQ with hot dogs and hamburgers. Adam's brother and his family came out from Chetwynd (about an hour from us) and some friends and coworkers of his came too. He was so surprised! I never thought I was really going to pull it off. Lizzy kept talking about the party so I was sure Adam figured it out. But luckily for me he didn't and we had a blast.

Happy 30th hunface! I love you!