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My ADHD titration diary
After her ADHD diagnosis, Verity Babbs wondered how well medication would work. Her diary details the controlled process of trying different doses, and how her body reacted.
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The joys and failures of audio description
Audio description enhances the experience of watching a film or TV show for people with a visual impairment, but it's not widely available in the UK. Alex Lee explains why.
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Doris Day blows against
Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.
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The evil eye and social anxiety
The ‘look’ of the evil eye is believed to bring bad luck, illness or even death. This ancient curse might be deliberate, inflicted with an envious glare, or it could be accidental, the result of undue attention or excessive praise.
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Ruby and Golden Weddings
Date: 1962, 1972Reference: PP/RMK/A.7/3Part of: Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle (1898-1980), psychoanalyst
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For your next party : decorated cakes : for anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, parties / from Hathaway.
Hathaway Bakeries.Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]- Books
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Royal cookery: or the compleat court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery, viz. for making of Soops, Bisques, Olio's, Terrines, Surtouts, Puptons, Ragoos, Forc'd-Meats, Sauces, Patties, Pies, Tarts, Tansies, Cakes, Puddings, Jellies, &c. As likewise Forty Plates, curiously engraven on Copper, of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations and Instalments; of Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; as likewise of City-Feasts. To which are added bills of fare for every month in the year. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne.
Lamb, Patrick.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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Royal-Cookery: or, the compleat court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery, viz. for making of Soops, Bisques, Olio's, Terrines, Surtouts, Puptons, Ragoos, Forc'd-Meats, Sauces, Pattys, Pies, Tarts, Tansies, Cakes, Puddings, Jellies, &c. As likewise Forty Plates, curiously engraven on Copper, of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations and Instalments; of Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; as likewise of City-Feasts. To which are added, bills of fare for every month in the year. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne.
Lamb, Patrick.Date: [1716]- Books
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Royal cookery: or, the compleat court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery, viz. for making of Soops, Bisques, Olio's, Terrines, Surtouts, Puptons, Ragoos, Forc'd-Meats, Sauces, Patties, Pies, Tarts, Tansies, Cakes, Puddings, Jellies. &c. As likewise Forty Plates, curiously engraven on Copper, of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations and Instalments; of Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; as likewise of City-Feasts. To which are added, bills of fare for every month in the year. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne.
Lamb, Patrick.Date: 1726