Pleasures of the Season — Travel Included . . .

Besides the sunshine and the cold, but gorgeous, blue skies, there’s much to please in winter here right now — I’ve mentioned before that I planted the garden partially to conquer the drears of the…

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Happy New Year

The days around Christmas were marked around here by an absolutely silly amount of rainfall — it just kept pounding down, grey and soggy. Then came stormy winds, still accompanied with bursts of rain, but…

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Classic with a Twist, the Christmas Version?

Let me just sneak in a last few favourite images from Christmas before the year closes. . . here’s my son “helping” Nola set up the Brio train set of his (and his sisters’) childhood.…

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What I Wore, Festive Dinner with Sisters

My “What I Wore” feature has been sadly neglected for the past several weeks — and now that my research leave has begun, I’m afraid my sartorial range may be quite constrained. But here’s a…

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post – Christmas – post

They’ve all gone home, and we’re left with our books, a quiet house, turkey soup simmering on the stove, and some lovely memories of Christmas 2010. One highlight was my eldest daughter saying that her…

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