Who do I think I am? You tell me

It’s been a busy week with Girlcook visiting and none of the quiet time I usually have on my own in the evenings. Nicely compensated for, of course, by some amazing meals. She made the…

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Girlcook and I play Dressup

My daughter, Megan, is here visiting for a week before she heads out to Toronto to live with her boyfriend. She’s been away cooking at a heliskiing lodge over the winter, and we’ve missed her.…

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black blooms — natural and fabric-ated

The last issue of Gardening Life, a glossy Canadian garden magazine, featured a “black” garden, the counterpart to the famous white garden atSissinghurst. While I’ve no similarly concentrated darkness in my garden, I have been…

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wanting what I have, the cashmere coat version

After questioning some of my shopping patterns recently (and Une Femme extended this thinking with a very productive analogy in her post yesterday), I decided to focus on the succesful purchases I’ve made rather than…

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Having, Wanting, Shopping . . .

I commented a few posts ago about the imprinting left by my long-ago school uniform and you can see its effects again here. We wore grey wool flannel pleated skirts where I’ve substituted denim, and…

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