Never mind Wimbledon, or indeed the start of the summer festival season. Being at our place for our weekly church group is the place to be! Or so we’ve said…but as our little group changes over the next few weeks, it’s one way to keep things simple. This week saw one group member return to …
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Read, learn and inwardly digest
Met with various friends over the holiday weekend, and one asked what I read. Given how much Dan and I like our books, I found it quite hard to answer, and having been mulling this one over since. Part of the issue comes from the fact that we have different reading habits at different times. …
B’stilla…but no fandango
Have just looked back at the last two posts, and funnily enough, they are both about food. Again. So I might as well have thirds, and write another post about food. Dan has put up a picture of Eric in Paris, but truly, we were there too…We had three and a bit days there before …
Recherche de biscuits perdu
I shall start this blog with a couple of literary references, neither as yet checked. My French is also not strong enough to be sure whether biscuits needs ‘perdu’ or ‘perdue’. Anyway, Proust wanted to do a bit of rediscovering of the past, and managed something like that through the (for him) evocative taste of …
Like something almost being said
“The trees are coming into leaf // Like something almost being said”… …and I feel a need to quote Philip Larkin. Have been leaf watching every morning on the way to work, and now, thanks to clocks change on Sunday, even on the way home too. The wonders of evening daylight. For Fall in the …