Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater . . .

I just can’t do it. While I almost always make myself soldier on to the end of a novel, I’ve had to abandon two in the last few months. The first was the latest instalment…

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au cinema . . . a Paris . . .

While I’m collecting my thoughts, and photographs, of the wedding, let’s go back to Paris for a while, shall we? Pater and I did, the evening after the nuptials, via Midnight in Paris, showing at…

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Les Amies et Blogging . . .

I’m not sure why, when I saw this dress in an atelier window(edited to add, for clarity: in Paris), it reminded me of Miss Cavendish, but it did. I think she must once have posted about…

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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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More Paris Couture

 Thanks for all your “safe travelling” wishes — yesterday was a long day, 13 hours in transit by the time I walked in the door and put my suitcase down, my feet up. And, as…

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