Author: Cinnamon

This is the new-to-me house I mentioned last week. I had done one of these (bought all the samples from a new-to-me house) a month or so ago and the results were so meh and pedestrian that I didn’t bother… Continue Reading →

I’ve got a set of samples coming from a new-to-me house but they don’t arrive till Monday. So, we’re going down this rabbit hole today. I don’t need things. I whisper this to myself with some regularity. But the want… Continue Reading →

It’s a three-day weekend. The sun has been out for days. The weather is decidedly warm. I am thankful. After so much poor weather and stressful work it is good to have the space to just breathe. Saturday started with… Continue Reading →

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 →