Not for Want of a Nail — One More Running Post

Note that dirty line running from the sole of my runner along the side of my shoe across that central stretch of mesh — and the puncture mark on the sole below it — where…

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Finished my Half Marathon, tooting my horn!

Just a very quick post to say that I finished my Half Marathon today — my time wasn’t as good as I’d hoped, thanks to the cold, I guess. I came in around 2:05, which…

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Blooms beat Gloom

The weekend’s going to be grey and rainy, but with these little guys popping up all over, who can be gloomy? Mind you, I’m tempted to gloominess by a cough that’s threatening to become something…

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What I Wore, What they Wore — More Opera

Radio silence around here since my weekend opera posting due to a seized left shoulder which severely restricted keyboard time to working on my essay. Thanks to my lovely daughter’s work (she’s in her last…

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Opera, The Morning After — La Clemenza di Tito

Despite not getting to bed ’til after 1 last night (we went to Bacchus, as usual, for our post opera drink and a late-night snack with our daughters, who kept Paul company while I blogged),…

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