Christmas Boots and Other Memorable Gifts

Last Christmas, I wrote a post on new Christmas boots, both the ones I’d anticipated and the ones I received, preceded by a long preamble reaching back to my childhood. Writing the post reminded me…

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Counting Down . . .

Wind warning in effect so our Christmas travellers (two daughters, two partners, one granddaughter) will have a rough trip over on the ferry later this morning — when we rode over on Tuesday, we were…

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Savouring the Gifts — A Child Leads the Way

While I had originally thought today’s post would feature, in its entirety, the piece I contributed to Tish’s lovely compilation of Christmas Gifts that cost Nothing, I’ve since decided that Tish’s judicious editing worked very…

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Customer Service — It’s in the Bag!

Product-touting rarely happens here, but every so often, a company is so consistently good at what it does that I think people should know. This is how I feel about M0851 which Ifirst wrote about…

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Holiday Visiting

I’m visiting today. . . I was invited to join some lovely bloggers over at A Femme d’Un Certain Age. Over the last two weeks, Tish has been introducing us to an array of wonderful…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.