Blog Posts
3 May 2022
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Winter is making itself felt. The mornings are downright cold, leaves are falling, and the clouds are putting on more dramatic displays.
19 April 2022
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We met when I moved in next door. I cannot recall what brought about the actual meeting. There was no foretelling that this was to be a special friendship.
11 April 2022
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I have gardened for most of my life by now. For me I first woke up to the possible magic of a garden when I met my husband’s grandmother...
29 March 2022
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Isn’t food interesting? We all have food that defines high days and holidays. We have comfort food and healthy food, naughty food…well, I do!
9 March 2022
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I have found my own responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine very interesting. As the rumblings began and grew louder, came closer...
15 February 2022
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I have not read a Joanna Trollope book for many a long year. Then out of the blue my daughter found one of the newer ones...
2 February 2022
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I have been thinking about how one can disagree productively. Or at the very least how one can disagree without being destructive.
22 January 2022
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So…how are things? This last year was for me personally a year of upheaval and change. The shape of my life and my days changed.
4 January 2022
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How fortunate I was as well for I had been born in a time of giants! One of them is being buried today and my language is being used as part of the service. How extraordinary is that?
5 December 2021
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Isn’t it lovely when this happens! Even more so when one has had a tough month! But maybe that is when it happens, or more likely, when we actually notice it is happening.