Gardening, Reading, Remembering Paris. . .

My garden is glorious, if I do say so myself, and what an absolutely splendid time to return from a week in Paris! Yes, I’m up and outside by 5 a.m., watching the sun come…

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H is for Hello Again. . . and also for Helen Macdonald’s Hawk book. . .

Very near the top of my What Will I Do Now That I’m Retiring list is “Resurrect My Reading Blog” with perhaps ten or twenty exclamation marks following that commitment. This is a teeny, tiny…

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Transitions…Back to My Garden, Soon.l.

Wending our way back to the island today, by car and then ferry and then our trusty commuter boat, and finally loading my luggage and our groceries onto our bikes for the last kilometre. A…

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Home Sweet Home and Happy Birthday to Me!

Yesterday was a long day, one of those ones that always amaze me, no matter how much I travel. Did I really squeeze, with my sister and our (luckily carry-on size) suitcases, into the tiny…

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yesterday, sisters in Paris

A quick run before breakfast to Jardin du Luxembourg where they’ve dressed up Mary Stuart And where I introduced my sister to the Fontaine des Medicis After breakfast, we headed to an exhibition at Musée des…

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