The Patsy Cline song of the post title popped up in the book I last read in my current series (Mark Billingham Detective Tom Thorne). The main character is into country & western, but not the smooth sappy stuff (queue… Continue Reading
I’m at a loss. It has rained, it is raining, it will rain. We get 40% more precip than London, which is saying something. After years in this country I fully understand why people talk endlessly about the weather. Decades… Continue Reading
The past two weeks were March; this week is April. Maybe by mid-May it will be May. Afraid I haven’t been at my chirpiest recently. It’s finally starting to get warm and the garden has gotten its grow on, but… Continue Reading
Happy May Day. To my joy, at least one of the lily of the valley I planted last autumn might well bloom. Though late. The weather here has been impossible. We’re due gales again. Last week was mad. Usually the… Continue Reading
The end of last week was … Thursday AM early the car went in for a service. It had been running hot and I was pretty sure something ‘significant’ was wrong. It’s old for a car (10 years) but the… Continue Reading
Last week, I made a point of saying I hadn’t had enough time with a new-to-me brand and would write about it this week. Alas, no. Over the course of a week and a half of sampling I came to… Continue Reading
I was half-way through a post on a new-to-me house and its five fragrances when I realised I simply wasn’t going to have enough time with the perfumes to say something remotely useful yet. So, that will wait another week.… Continue Reading