Materfamilias Writes

Eating There, Eating Here. . . .Reality Check Post-Travel. . .

Eating There, Eating Here. . . .Reality Check Post-Travel. . .

Plunged right back into family activities this week — my son and daughter-in-law have been in town this week with their Four and One, and although they didn’t stay with us, we’ve been caught up…

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Walking in Rome. . .

Walking in Rome. . .

PLEASE NOTE: I’ve switched Comments back to an older setting which I don’t like as much, but which may allow more of you to leave comments. If you would attempt to leave even the briefest…

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An Italian Meal to Remember. . . Food and Family

An Italian Meal to Remember. . . Food and Family

We’re back in Bordeaux where I’ve been catching up on some online coursework, playing with watercolour, washing clothes and hanging them out in the sunshine, and visiting a favourite little Bar-Cave with Pater. It’s been…

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Time for a Cuppa — Join Me for Tea?

Time for a Cuppa — Join Me for Tea?

A month from today, we’ll have landed in a city far from home and begun exploring. I’ve booked our accommodation there and also booked train tickets for the next three legs of our trip which…

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Learning a Thing or Two About Myself, In Retirement. . .

Learning a Thing or Two About Myself, In Retirement. . .

Some recent random aperçus, or observations — not quite epiphanies, but bordering on — about this state of my retirement and my move through what some sociologists are calling Young Old Age (sometimes designated as…

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