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I've been blogging since 2010, with different blogs for different topics. With this one, I'm bringing everything together, gradually moving posts here from older blogs, which is why you see long past publication dates on some of them.

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Marie McKinsey

Mar 30, 2014
2 min

Preventing Scurvy with Watercress

" 'What are you doing, Mr. Fraser?' Grey asked, in some bewilderment. Fraser looked up, mildly surprised, but not embarrassed in the slightest. 'I am picking watercress, Major.' 'I see that,' Grey said testily. 'What for?' 'To eat, Major,' Fraser replied evenly. He took the stained cloth bag from his belt and dropped the dripping green mass into it... 'I only meant, Major, that eating green plants will stop ye getting scurvy and loose teeth. My men eat such greens as I take

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Marie McKinsey

Mar 29, 2014
3 min

Strawberries and The Clan Fraser

In Drums of Autumn, Jamie tells Claire this story, "Strawberries ha' always been the emblem of the clan - it's what the name meant, to start

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