Lucky me — Happy Birthday, Pater

This good-looking guy has a birthday today, so I’m leaving our island home where there’s a breeze off the water and I can swim to cool off (I went in twice yesterday — it was…

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just a little tacky . . .

While I admire the man’s work tremendously, I thought the style evinced in this interview was questionable. The bold is The Globe interviewer; the regular print is Sart’s answer: You look fit – just not…

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So much depends upon — the orange wheelbarrow!

One last splash of orange, if you don’t mind (and yes, the pun was deliberate — sorry!). Here’s our improvisational response to the lack of a baby pool here — we simply cleaned out the…

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Winter view from a Summer Perspective

Summertime and the paddling is pleasant! View from my deck yesterday afternoon A few years ago, I commented to a neighbour, during a third rainless week in mid-September (which followed a dry, hot August) that…

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Reacher in Paris

If you’ve spent any time reading here, or especially if you’ve spent any time reading over here, you’ll know that I’m a bit of a francophile, and also that my husband and I have been…

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