The cool after baking

We managed through the heatwave. Please could we not have another one for a good long while. My son’s graduation was really nice – both the AM school ceremony (small-ish – maybe 40 people out of 160 graduating showed up… Continue Reading

Monotheme Agrumi di Sicilia

We’re having ‘weather’ – what the rest of the world knows of as rather hot. But I shouldn’t be so flippant. It’s actually serious business. It’s basically fine here in neverneverland.  It could reach 32 degrees Celsius/90 Fahrenheit on Monday.… Continue Reading

What a week

So. My phone contract was up and I got a new one, with a much better camera. We’re in our second period of ‘warm’ this summer, moving into hot this week. Am not complaining. Will walk early with the dog… Continue Reading

Oh, cocoa

Happy (almost) Independence Day in US. It was much of a week. Not bad, just full. I train-ed up to bring my son back from university. Picked up rental car as my car is way too small to move stuff… Continue Reading

Playing silly games

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

Um, time

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

Sublime

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