1. Sunshine! Much expediting beachwalks with visiting friends (see my IG for a photo). Like my Californian visitors last week, L, coming from a sweltering-at-38-degrees Bordeaux, claimed she would have been quite content with rain…
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Since some readers expressed interest, I’m going to try to track our progress as we adapt any skills and knowledge gleaned through years in our seaside garden on “our little island” (those links will take you…
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I love the way the weather has blasted a rust stencil into the old Doukhobor church bench I picked up years ago to celebrate having successfully passed my doctoral comprehensives. The stencil itself was bought…
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Perhaps not surprisingly, we still feel a bit tired and breathless around here. Behind the scenes, you won’t know, we’ve spent the past couple of months with our small apartment — pied-à-terre in the city…
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As you will know if you’ve been reading here for any time at all, one of the toughest aspects of this move, for me, has been leaving behind a garden I’d created and nurtured for…
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