Chez Nous à Bordeaux . . .

As we watch summer’s relaxed days dwindle, as I try to dodge the stresses of wedding preparation and paid-work-related worries  and watch autumn hurtle towards us with its onslaught of obligations, I’m already dreaming of…

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Wave-ing, not Drowning? (apologies to Stevie Smith)

Taken from the car, driving through Haut-Médoc on way back from Souillac to Bordeaux It’s not all easy summer pleasure around here. Sometimes I need a pretty picture to divert myself from the current stresses…

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Sharing the Love! Meet some +40 Bloggers

Perhaps I’ve been living under a rock, but I barely know what IFB stands for (Independent Fashion Bloggers), let alone what the recent brouhaha about it might have been.  I realized something was happening only…

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Recently Read Genre fiction

Continuing my clean-up/catch-up project of grouping my lighter reading together so that I at least mention here the titles on my 2012 Reading list, here are the mystery novels I’ve read since the spring: Patricia…

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Simple Summer Pleasures: Favourite T, Foodie Stuff, and Beach Happenings. . .

Summer Pleasure #1 Favourite but sadly ancient summer T. Gap 2007, the absolutely perfect-weight cotton knit. I think it’s its beach-faded vibe of pink and white is the best possible coloured riff on the ubiquitous…

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