Author: Cinnamon

We’re in waiting mode here. The first part of the election in France, then the general election here on Thursday, and then the second part for France later in July. I have two samples I’m working on but I’ve put… Continue Reading →

The next town over is having a food festival, featuring a dinner with tables running down the main street (see pic). If I had known. Sigh. This looks like it will be so much fun. This literally runs hundreds of… Continue Reading →

This is getting posted on UK fathers’ day. I can’t say I pay attention to these holidays. Certainly, my mother, who was the stronger presence in our childhoods, was consciously indifferent to mothers’ and fathers’ days, Valentines and Christmas. She… Continue Reading →

I am waiting impatiently for my neighbours’ mock orange to start blooming. I get so much vicarious pleasure from the smell. I have a secret plan the next time they are away on holiday to sneak into their garden and… Continue Reading →

Happy June. It’s actually warm and sunny here (shhhh – don’t want to jinx things). The dahlias are tall, the roses and columbine are blooming, the honeysuckle is everywhere and smelling incredible, and the apple tree, which bloomed magnificently in… Continue Reading →

I don’t have much today. I am ‘working on’ a sample but it needs a bit longer. Along with Memorial Day in the US, it is the late May bank holiday weekend here – and the coming week is a… Continue Reading →

Because I always have to tell you about the weather here, I will say it rained cats, dogs and unicorns last Monday which after all our beautiful weather prior to that it was shocking and unfair, even if the plants… Continue Reading →