petite anglaise, the book

Finished reading Catherine Sanderson’s Petite Anglaise and found it an enjoyable, well-written, light book, a “creative-non-fiction”/memoir that reads almost as a novel. My escape fiction/formula fiction of choice is generally the well-written mystery novel; as…

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Eating sardines in Lisbon — mmmmm!

I still have one last post to write on eating in Paris, but since my focus has been on Portugal and Lisbon over recent posts, I thought you might like to see what we loved…

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Red for the Weasel

In honour of La Belette Rouge’s recent 200th post, I have obediently complied with her request that I buy something red, and yesterday went into my favourite local boutique (which we’re lucky to have in…

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take one down, pass it around, too many bottles of . . . water?

I’m trying to write a little piece on style/fashion, but I’m rethinking and revising and cutting out big sections, so it will be a while. Meanwhile, I noticed this in this morning’s news and am…

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end-of-summer scent

With the start of term speeding toward me, I’m trying to gobble as much fun reading as I can — right now, I’m devouring the bonbon that is Catherine Sanderson’s Petite Anglaise. More on that…

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