Planning ahead

I mentioned last weekend that flight/hotel bookings had been made. The travel doesn’t begin ’til mid-June, but meanwhile, here’s the itinerary. Fly into city represented by photo above, spend several days revisiting favourite spots and…

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Spring Wardrobe-Shopping

This exuberantly-paisleyed silk shirt-dress is a bit too short and spirited for me to carry off in March on its own — once my legs have tanned a bit and I can wear it with…

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Running and Karaoke and Opera and Garden Pretties — Really!

Euphorbia’s brilliantly acid green. Photos have nothing to do whatsoever with text, today, except that all reflect spring’s pleasures. I took these garden shots in last weekend’s sunshine. Yesterday the spring showers turned to vicious…

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Gifts of Spring — Scarf Prettiness

When I heard that I’d won the contest for a lovely vintage silk scarf over at Hostess of the Humble Bungalow, I settled in to practise patience waiting for it to arrive. I needn’t have…

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Spring transitions

Right now the garden’s at that transitional stage in which there are still tatty, tired remnants of winter, but they’re everywhere being replaced by new growth. Above, for example, new leaves and buds of clematis…

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