A quick post to recommend a must-see film, Simon Curtis’s Woman in Gold, based on the true story of Maria Altmann’s efforts to recover Gustav Klimt’s portrait of her aunt from Vienna’s Belvedere Gallery. The elderly…
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We’ve just had the loveliest nine days of family visits. First this sweetheart brought her parents (my son and dear daughter-in-law) along for an extended weekend, and my brother and his wife dropped in for…
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In Part A of The Sisters Eat in Paris, I wrote about choosing a restaurant for dining with a friend making her first visit to Paris. I wrote about old favourites and about ways those…
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She’s on a mission: collecting seaweed for the garden compost. Those “clouds” are actually all smoke, so we’re rationing outdoor time. I’d hoped to do a bit better with posting this week, but I’d probably…
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Just popping in quickly to show you how eerie it’s been here this morning. The wildfires burning in town (just behind our backs, on Vancouver Island, across the harbour) and a much bigger one burning…
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