In 5 days you’ll be able to purchase flight insurance, even though that airship you are about to board is perfectly safe. Nothing can go…
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In 6 days that tweeting and trilling sound you hear will be coming from a genuine clockwork bird, a marvel of the modern age built by the…
In Seven Days we will race the clock to be on time when that venerable airship, The Jasmine, shrugs off its mooring ropes and sails…
In 8 days, you can spend a day at the circus! Gasp as Princess Penelope performs a plethora of playful pirouettes while precariously perched on…
In 9 days, you can shop at Nattersack’s for everything from mechanical pens to Sir Rubalot’s Brass Brightener By The Tub. “The Flight To Brassbright”…
In 10 days you can visit 'The Inkwell', simply by reading The Flight To Brassbright. How Extraordinary!
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I blame Gail Carriger for having lost nearly my entire day to obsessing over Acquaintance Cards. She made mention of them on her Book of Faces, and I oh-so-innocently clicked the link, which took me to Vintage Everyday, a rather delightful blog, in which I landed directly on a dangerously addictive page.
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It’s a warm Saturday in the summer of 1872, and somewhere in Steamkettle Bay, bad things are happening. Can Paisley Pockets and Christopher Cogan stop a crime in progress? They may be just a couple of kids, but where there's a will and, some smarts, there just might be a way