thinking in the garden

One of my daughters phoned to chat a bit today and mentioned that altho’ she’d seen my latest post, she couldn’t find anything to comment on. No worries, she said, it was interesting enough, plus…

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a bit of this, some more of that

In Vancouver, sharing a lazy morning indoors, bacon and eggs, the papers — a nice contrast to the sound of the cars whizzing through the rain on the busy street just below us. Later on,…

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Rewards of the risk, fruits of the labour

You’ll be glad to know I got out of theresting-free, and I ended up with this bowl of goodiesI played around with them for a while — you know, squished them, added oodles of sugar,…

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something for everyone — reading, knitting, gardening

Quite some time ago, I promised you a piece of knitlit — specifically, an excerpt about knitting from a wonderfully rich book that some critics have called an Indian detective novel: Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games.…

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summer days, island life, how many more days in paradise?

I’ve really felt as if I were on vacation this last week (and I am, but I wasn’t feeling it so much earlier). On Monday a friend came over and we had a long relaxed…

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