Author: Cinnamon

I hope this pops up when it should. I don’t own 24 Faubourg. My memory of it is buying a bottle for a friend at Duty Free on the way home from a work trip in Paris. The other memory… Continue Reading →

Happy Labour Day! I leave for my Europe trip on Tuesday. Day one is home, to town, to London, to Brussels, and on to the night train to Vienna. I arrive in Vienna the following mid-morning – and currently it’s… Continue Reading →

It’s all of a sudden late summer – late August – and I’m shocked, just shocked. I kept telling myself ‘be in the now – don’t wish for time to pass’, but it has passed. The last time I visited… Continue Reading →

I live in horse country. Probably not like racing in Kentucky but a sufficient number of people own horses and ride them through the villages that I think I can safely say that. I rode when I was (much) younger… Continue Reading →

We’re in a short heatwave. Four days and then back to cooler and some rain. Here are my dahlias. This is the first year I have managed to raise happy dahlias. I started them inside. Maybe that’s the trick here.… Continue Reading →

After Portia wrote about it here, and Tom here, I put testing Clinique’s I guess iconic Aromatics Elixir on my to-sample list. I was deeply sceptical so didn’t buy a sample – just put it on my to do list… Continue Reading →

I was going to write about the last Replica sample I got but that will wait a week because my brain got stuck on Tom’s idea of teleporting to corporate Posse meetups. And then I was watching the opening ceremony… Continue Reading →