I don’t have much today. I’m working on a post for next week but it won’t come together till then. I’ve been wearing Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille because well, I have a sample and I thought I should play with… Continue Reading
Saturday was my son’s 21st birthday. I remember the day he was born. I remember the first day the nurses let me take him outside (into the rose garden at the hospital). I remember taking him home and the health… Continue Reading
A change is as good as a rest? Yes, indeed (if you look carefully at pic above it’s a young man and a dog). We didn’t go terribly far – just across the county from southeast to north which took… Continue Reading
Last week was half term school holidays plus … Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee four-day weekend from Thursday. Mother Nature felt very fickle about the Jubilee, I think, with a couple of good days and rain over the weekend, when… Continue Reading
(My self-seeded foxglove which the bees loved. I ended up taking it out of the garden given it is poisonous to the dog. Sorry, bees.) I don’t want to jinx things but we’ve actually got some good weather. This coming… Continue Reading
I’ve reviewed lavender-based fragrances a few times and been mean about all of them. Lavender is a not a note that works well on me. So, why am I writing about lavender? Because in most other permutations I love it.… Continue Reading
Last week was one of those hard ones. My son finished up his dissertation (last piece of work for last year at university – a period that was negatively affected by covid) which meant 5.5 days of anxiety and hysteria… Continue Reading