Summer Views from my Kitchen Sink

Hostess has asked her blogging community to post photos from their kitchen sink. For me, this is an opportunity to do the two-birds-one-stone thing and show a few photos from the family gathering I hosted…

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I Need a Holiday after this Weekend!

Crazy busy, fun weekend. Want a rundown? Friday night: Family gathering at my sister’s place to hang out with cousin visiting from England. 4 sisters, 2 brothers, their spouses, my daughter, my mom and her…

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Entertaining Recipes — Food, Family, Good Times . . .

I’m very lucky to have a secret weapon in the entertaining department — came in handy when we had the houseguests this week. And what’s in that arsenal? Why, Pater makes a mean paella, and…

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Three for the Big Armchair — two mysteries and a Paris memoir

Some recent light reading: Jeffrey Deaver’s The Burning Wire: Another Lincoln Rhyme’s mystery, this one will have you flipping those light switches very carefully, keeping small appliances well away from water, and being generally very…

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Yummy Food and New Friends

 Yesterday (Sunday) was one of our favourite days in France. Blogging friend Lesley, whom we met for dinner at La Table des Assiettes on Saturday night, invited us to her home where we met her delightful…

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Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.