Less : Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier by Patrick Grant to Catherine the Great she

to Catherine the Great she was Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna

in captivating prose and loving detail

the Great War and then the demise of the Campbeltown distilleries in the 1920s

Nose Magic also offers a glimpse of real Scottish places like New Cumnock

women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands

Less : Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier by Patrick Grant to Catherine the Great sheWe used to care a lot about our clothes. We didnt have many but those we had were important to us. Wed cherish them, repair them and pass them on. And making them provided fulfilling work for millions of skilled people locally. ? Today the average person has nearly five times as many clothes as they did just 50 years ago. Last year, 100 billion garments were produced worldwide, most made from oil, 30% of which were not even sold, and the equivalent of