Yesterday...

Yesterday…

…this post was called ‘Today’ but the storm led to a power cut and I lost all my scribble. … Trevor the carpenter finished the outside loo door. It replaced an old latch door and frame that had rotted from the bottom up. Now the outside loo, only used for as a local cat poo [...]

And Then I Smelled It

And Then I Smelled It

When I looked at the picture Anita put up on Monday’s Top Ten post, those glorious Percherons, my mind was filled with smells.  I imagined the smell of the horses (sweaty large animal, hot hair, warm horse breath, dung).  Dust, the parched earth, the field of corn in the background.  The heat gives everything a [...]

Top 10 of Summer

Top 10 of Summer

By Anita Summer. Summersummersummer. You know what’s weird about summer?  It’s a horse of a totally different color, depending upon where you are and who you are (or used to be).  I spent the last 50o years of my life in an Urban environment and my summer fragrances reflected that.  When I think about Agraria [...]