Should it stay or should it go?

Happy April! I mean, it’s really spring – and March (the month, not our March ?) didn’t go out like a lamb but reasonably close. Spring and autumn are weird smells times for us. This is still farm country, though… Continue Reading

Decant Demolition 2025 March

Hey Hey Posse, Decant Demolition 2025 is running away from me. I’m doing my best to get through decants but already the full bottles are calling my name. Again this month I made the quota but it was hard. Now it’s… Continue Reading

Cheap & Cheerful: Tabac Original by Maurer & Wirtz

First off, thanks to you all who kindly commented on my last post memorializing my friend Sue. Your thoughts were greatly appreciated. We haven’t done a Cheap & Cheerful in a while and that might be because I have been… Continue Reading

Vanished – a Musing

  So, Posse!  This is a vaguely Get Off My Lawn post – about food(s) that just… vanish.  Not our Beloveds of Yesteryear (aka childhood favorites – that’s for another post) – this one is .. you know when you… Continue Reading

Ffern perfume Spring 2025 / Vernal Equinox

As I finish this post up, here, we’ve done the winter to summer time change over Saturday night into Sunday morning. I am hugely discombobulated. Not only is my brain in a bit of a muddle, once I was up… Continue Reading

Morocco 2025 for Jin and Portia

Hi Crew. Yes, Jin and I are off on another adventure. This time Jin let me pick where we are going! YAY! Obviously I always get a say but having seen so much of the world before we met I… Continue Reading

In Memoriam

This one isn’t easy to write. My dear friend Susan “Sue” West died last week. Sue had been a treasured friend and a large part of my life for more than two-thirds of it. We met when I started as… Continue Reading