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Bracing the Cold: A Beginner’s Guide to Safe Cold Exposure
Cold exposure has a long pedigree in our parts: fishermen plunge for work and stoicism; lighthouse keepers scrub their faces at dawn; a handful of hardy souls swear that a quick dip sharpens the wits and steadies the hand.Continue Reading
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A Garden Shed That Outshines the House
Here in the back garden of Rupert Kettleby, a retired postman with a fondness for begonias, stands perhaps the most extraordinary shed in the Kingdom. The moment the door swings open, one is met with a dazzling sight: polished wood floors, silk draperies, and no fewer than two crystal chandeliers hanging from the rafters.Continue Reading
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Pickled for Posterity
By Elspeth Morrow, Lifestyle Correspondent TANSYFORD — If you’ve ever tasted the sharp, briny crunch of a pickle at the midsummer fair, chances are it came from the kitchen of Grandmother Hetta Larksby. At eighty-two, Hetta presides over her pantry like a general with her army of jars. The shelvesContinue Reading
Religion & Faith
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Saint Carlo Acutis: A Millennial Saint for a Digital Age
The canonization of Saint Carlo Acutis marks a moment of profound significance, particularly for the youth of Eyehasseen and for Catholic young people across the world. Born in 1991 and passing away in 2006, Carlo lived a life that in many ways mirrored that of today’s teenagers. He enjoyed video games, technology, and the ordinary rhythm of school life. Yet it was precisely within that ordinariness that sanctity revealed itself.Continue Reading
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The Passing of a Shepherd: Mourning a Pope, Reckoning a Legacy
The bells tolled from the great tower of St. Hildegarde’s at dawn, their deep voices echoing through valleys and across the rooftops of Eyehasseen, announcing the end of a pontificate and the passing of a man both beloved and bewildering.Continue Reading
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On Haggling and the Condition of the Soul
By Brother Aurembald Let us speak plainly, friends: the Kingdom’s marketplaces are filled with wares of every kind — boots, bread, beetroot wine, and occasionally an alarming number of onions. But they are also filled with that murkier exchange: the dance of the haggle. It is an ancient rite, olderContinue Reading
History & Culture
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Shadows and Silence: DeChirico at the Royal Museum
DeChirico Exhibition at the Royal Museum of Art – Shadows and Silence, gathers together for the first time in Eyehasseen a dozen of De Chirico’s most iconic canvases: Continue Reading
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Eyehasseen Musicians Triumph in Lucerne Festival
A thunderous ovation greeted Eyehasseen’s delegation of musicians at the Lucerne International Festival this week, as they unveiled a performance equal parts baffling, brilliant, and deafening.Continue Reading
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The Great Turnip Rebellion
In the long ledger of uprisings that dot the Kingdom’s past, none is remembered with quite the same mixture of humor and bitterness as the Great Turnip Rebellion of 963. What began as a simple grievance over crop quotas soon swelled into marches, bonfires, and even the toppling of a manor gate. Though dismissed in some chronicles as a farce, the rebellion left scars on both policy and pride.Continue Reading
Travel & Leisure
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A Treatise on Rest: Why Doing Nothing Is Occasionally a Civic Duty
Among the lesser-known virtues of civilisation—clean socks, punctual trains, and the moderate use of adjectives—lies a quality increasingly rare in modern life: the ability to do nothing properly. Not lazily, nor guiltily, but with dignity and purpose. Rest, like patriotism or pastry, is only beneficial when taken seriously.Continue Reading
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The Golden Rails to Southmarch
There are faster ways to reach the southern provinces, but none finer than the Golden Rail, that grand artery of steam and polish that carries the Kingdom’s citizens from Inverness to the green hills of Southmarch in just under nine unhurried hours. It departs from Platform Two of the Royal Terminus, a hall of brass columns and clockwork dignity where the scent of coal mingles with perfume and anticipation.Continue Reading
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A Pilgrimage to Mount Saint Caradoc
The road to Mount Saint Caradoc begins like any other: cobbles, cottages, and the quiet chatter of travellers who still believe they know where they are going. But an hour beyond the last tavern, the landscape changes. The hedgerows fade, the air cools, and the path begins to wind upward through heather and thin mist. By the time one reaches the foothills, the only sound left is one’s own breathing—and the distant toll of a bell that no one can quite locate.Continue Reading
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Exercise for the Desk-Bound Gentleman (and the Industrious Lady)
The modern age, for all its brilliance, has produced a peculiar kind of invalid: the upright sitter—that pale species of humanity who spends their waking hours stooped over papers, ledgers, or typewriters, and whose chief form of exercise consists of sighing. Once upon a time, work required limbs; now it demands only vertebrae.Continue Reading
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The Anatomy of a Good Breakfast
Breakfast is not merely a meal. It is an act of national character. The way a citizen greets the morning says much about their sense of duty, their digestion, and their likelihood of behaving decently before noon. The hurried, the careless, and the perpetually late have conspired to make breakfast optional; civilisation requires its restoration to ceremony.Continue Reading
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On the Virtues of a Proper Walk
In an age increasingly obsessed with speed, it is refreshing—if not entirely fashionable—to remember that walking remains the most respectable means of going anywhere worth arriving at. The motorcar roars, the bicycle wobbles, and the omnibus coughs, but the walker proceeds at a human pace, one foot in front of the other, and nearly always gets there eventually.Continue Reading
