1. Sunshine! Much expediting beachwalks with visiting friends (see my IG for a photo). Like my Californian visitors last week, L, coming from a sweltering-at-38-degrees Bordeaux, claimed she would have been quite content with rain…
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If you’re curious about the out-of-town guests whose company Pater and I have enjoyed this week. . . . It’s eight years now since Sue/Une Femme and I firstmet, here in Vancouver, and more than…
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We’re currently enjoying a brilliant weekend in Split where our daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter have flown to from Rome to join us — it’s very hot here, so we get to the beach early, have…
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Yesterday, as I said I would, I met a dear friend for coffee. Our friendship stretches further back in my life than any other relationship other than those with my siblings, yet we hadn’t seen…
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Just a quick note to say that my visit to our old stomping ground was so satisfying, if exhausting. Our afternoon ferry got us to the island with enough time to check in, unpack, and…
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