PinnedLyle HedleyWho’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf TRUTH OR ILLUSIONMartha: “Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference?”Apr 221Apr 221
Lyle HedleyinThe PubBoeing’s Spiral to FailureBoeing Space program is a complete failure at twice the cost of SpaceX and zero success.Aug 272Aug 272
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaCabbage rolls are simple but fussy to make — here’s a simpler way.This gives you all the rustic goodness without the hassles of steaming, stuffing, rolling, and braising.Aug 105Aug 105
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily Cuppa GrandeSTUFFED CABBAGE Made SimpleCabbage roll recipe, interpreted into a lasagna-style preparationAug 103Aug 103
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaPatrick Bronte is a legendary name in literature, the father of the Bronte sisters.Bronte is a name as English as the stones of Yorkshire. Except it isn’t — it’s an assumed name. Patrick Bronte was born poor, Irish, and…Aug 76Aug 76
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaThe Bronte children were “scribblemaniacs”.“Scribblemania” was first coined by poet Samuel Coleridge. It’s the compulsion to write and draw. Charlotte claimed it as the Bronte’s…Aug 23Aug 23
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaWe may never know the truth about Branwell Bronte.Branwell was educated at home. Much care was given and much was expected. At first, he thrived. His juvenile imaginary work was prodigious…Aug 15Aug 15
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaThe role sexism played in the lives of the Bronte sisters.The Bronte family was functionally a matriarchy. Run by the sisters and their aunt Elizabeth. But in the wider world, women were expected…Jul 314Jul 314
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaThe Bronte sisters gave the world enduring literature while living the most fleeting, fragile…The Bronte legend is of wild genius dying young. Death stalked this family. But there was a clear reason — they lived in a blighted…Jul 305Jul 305
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaThis is a painting of the three Bronte sisters and a ghost.Painted by their brother Branwell, it shows them clustered around a pillar. However, the pillar is slowly fading and his image is emerging.Jul 302Jul 302