Random Bordeaux . . .

Some very quick notes because we’re off on our bikes as soon as Pater finishes his tea. I love being able to come back to our charming house on Rue B for a nap after…

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Bordeaux: it's all Sharks and Roses and Cabbages!

This past week has been emotionally gruelling, but Paul’s father was buried yesterday, and now we will begin to move forward. I’ve just erased a paragraph in which I tried to explain our decision not…

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Gardens Here and There — Ah, Bordeaux Dreaming!

I’m so very happy that our two youngest are currently having a wonderful time together in the little house in Bordeaux. I sit out in our garden and contentedly imagine them sharing a meal in…

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Get Cool Before You Die . . . .Really!

I had to chuckle when Une Femme posted this photo the other day. Hers was taken in Paris’ Marais quartier, but I instantly went rifling through my files to find the one above, taken in…

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So close . . . .

 Having marked and handed back three out of four sections’ worth of research papers (22+ per section), I now have only the four sections’ worth of exams to mark and that last section of papers.…

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