Chinese Settlements in Victorian Times

Suzi Love Tags: Chinese settlements invariably had a temple, a store, and a dispensary. Chinese families cartered to the gold miner’s every need on diggings by cooking meals, doing laundry, and healing wounds and illnesses.

Suzi Love Tags: In many South Pacific countries, such as Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, descendents of these Victorian era Asian pioneers still run their large trading companies. Hope you’re enjoying my photgraphic dip into history. More soon.

   

Words of Hope – Quotation

                                                Laughed when I saw these Words of Hope.

       Seemed appropriate as I juggle the influx of bills that always arrives en masse in January.

                                                           Does this apply to you as well?

         You don’t seem to realise that a poor person who is unhappy….

                                      is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy.

                                                                        Because the poor person has hope.

                                                                                                         He thinks money would help.

                                                                                                                                                                      Jean Kerr

Tips and Tricks from a busy writer- Ann Lethbridge

NEWS FLASH-

My good friend and fellow historical author, Ann Lethbridge/ Michelle Ann Young, is blogging at Seduced by History and sharing her tips as a super busy writer on how to write faster, or at least, more productively.

Well worth checking out, as her energy amazes me. Not only is she a prolific writer, she blogs about her travels in Britain, drives a fast car, and can whip up a Regency ball gown from curtain fabric - oh, and did I mention the most important thing?

She loves a party... or two...or three! Ah! No wonder I adore her!!!

Suzi 

Tips and Tricks

of a moderately prolific writer
By Ann Lethbridge

Ann Lethbridge has two books coming out with Harlequin in 2010, Wicked Rake, Defiant Mistress, both covers pictured here. It comes out in February in the UK and in May in North America. The second book, Captured for the Captain’s Pleasure, will be in stores in June 2010. No cover as yet. There will be three Harlequin Undone’s coming out during the year also. Writing as Michele Ann Young, she has a short story called Remember in the Mammoth Book of Regencies due out in the summer, and a novella in a Mills and Boon Anthology which will be available in the UK sometime in 2010.

Chinese Medicine Shop Victorian Era

Suzi Love Tags: Following on from my earlier post about Chinese medicine, I wanted to show you some the very basic dispensaries used to sell chinese herbs and medicines in small villages and in gold rush towns in Australia and USA in the Victorian era.

   

Suzi Love Tags: They had very little in the way of possessions as imported good were very expensive, especially on gold diggings. A Chinese herbalists grew many of their own herbs and vegetables and mixed and cooked ingredients in very basic kitchens.

          

Suzi Love Tags: Hope you are enjoying touring these fascinating Victorian era places with me. Please come back as I have loads more lined up to share with you.

Happy Australia Day 2010

Wishing everyone a wonderful Australia Day. Hope you all enjoy a great BarBQ, picnic, swim, or whatever you chose to celebrate the day.
Suzi

Stately Yet Sumptuous Victorian Buildings

Suzi Love Tags: Here’s some photos of some lovely buildings, mainly Victorian type architecture. Hope you enjoy them, Suzi

 

Wonderful Victorian Houses

Suzi Love Tags: Don’t you love the variety of houses and buildings built in earlier times? I especially adore any Victorian type architecture so thought I’d share some of my favourite photos. In this post, there will be houses, then later we’ll move on to buildings small and large.

 

      

Suzi Love Tags: Hope you enjoy my photos, Suzi

Fashion Journals from Victorian Times

 

Suzi Love Tags: Women in Victorian times were obsessive about their fashions, just as ladies in previous eras. Dressing took up a lot of their time for it entailed choosing designs and bolts of cloth, dressmaker fittings, and hours primping and preening in their dressing rooms with the help of one or two maids.

      

Suzi Love Tags: Doesn’t seem a lot different from browsing through our fashion magazines of today, does it?

 

 

 

 

  

 

Suzi Love Tags: Hope you like the photos, Suzi

 

 

 

Women’s Wisdom Quotation

After submitting my scrubbed up version of a contest entry, I now have to tackle all the jobs I’ve let slide.

I found this oh-so-true quote,

Does this apply to most of my fellow authors trying to catch up in January???

I hate housework!
You make the beds, you do the dishes,
and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers

Isn’t that hilarious???

Love,
Suzi

Women’s wisdom- quotation

While I’m working hard on contest entries, I’ll just post a little women’s wisdom that applies.
Well, possibly???
He he!
Suzi

Winning may not be everything,
but losing has little to recommend it.
Dianne Feinstein.