Author: Cinnamon

So. I’ve returned from my trip and I’m really tired. Thus, this will be fairly discombobulated. Just FYI. Oh, and the trip is going to feed posts in different ways for around the next month. First, it was a great… Continue Reading →

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 →