It’s beginning to look a lot . . .

Some guerrilla decorating happened in my neighbourhood last week, an annual attack perpetrated by someone with a generous heart, a love of fun, and an apparently unending supply of ornaments. None of our trees were…

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What the no-longer-drowned-rat wore

If you can imagine a drowned rat, you’ll have a good idea what I looked like this morning when I got back from my run: it was cold, grey, and very wet, but since I’m…

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What I Wore (Christmas Open House)

Except that it has to be dry-cleaned, I’m really loving this silk dress by Graham & Spencer. Told you back when I bought itthat it wouldn’t look nearly as short on me as it did…

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Stormy Weather

I’m not sure how I caught this fabulous blue in the very early dawn this morning. In the next photo, below, taken only seconds later with the same automatic settings on my little Pentax Optio…

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Quick-and-dirty book review — Mister Pip

For weeks and weeks now, I’ve had both Dickens’ Great Expectations and Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip stacked by my monitor as a reminder to quickly summarize, for my blog, my response to the latter. And…

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