Writing, Gardening, Getting Fit, Making Lists. . . Spring Organising. . .

Perhaps not surprisingly, we still feel a bit tired and breathless around here. Behind the scenes, you won’t know, we’ve spent the past couple of months with our small apartment — pied-à-terre in the city…

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Flitting with the Finches — Back to My Reading Blog with a Book About Birds

Yes, I have trouble keeping this blog going — I’d say that it’s an example of a lifelong trend to,  as I’ve often been warned from adolescence onward, “spread myself too thin.” But I’m going…

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Normal Blogging will Resume . . .

We had a wonderful wedding weekend (above, brother and sister on their way to the excitement, showing how Casual Glamour is done).  I’ll try to roll out a few photos as the week progresses, but…

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Five Things Good Friday

We’ve been planting on the terrace — dreaming of it someday being festooned with fragrant honeysuckle so that we might be constantly pestered by hummingbirdds. . . .  1. The first thing I would have…

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Lightening the Layers, Just a Bit — Early Spring “What I Wore”

 In the interest of offering you some content here, without my having to write many words. . . . a few What I Wore photos snapped over the last two weeks or so. I’m really…

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