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My routines that keep my life buzzing
February be gone! March in March. As I wave February goodbye, I know I should have known better than to get into the February blues. However sternly I gave myself pep talks, that February funk still managed to settle upon me. I do actually like winter, most of the time. I like the brisk weather;…
I could have titled this My Love and Hate for AI, but that really would have been rather trite, so I have tied myself up in a few knots and come up with this heading, no resonance and sounding a bit codependent; which might of course be a wee bit true. Just a thought –…
How marvelous that I can be a rebel by just being untidy! If that’s all it takes, I feel I should take on bigger projects. Like how to convince Donald Trump to retire! I like my domestic surroundings to be quite neat. Not antiseptic, I have many useful items and treasures around, but in their…
Green is having a moment , and long may it last! I love green, and lucky me, it is a colour I can wear.
Yes, I will be 80 next year, but who says I won’t be one of those wonder people who are just trekking and trucking along into their 90s?
There is a retail experience that is not online, with few discounts, no deliveries, no fliers and few ads. And yet I see this sector thriving, expanding its offerings and clients.
The museum store/ shop.
Get that word perky – that is the direction for this blog. Seems at this time February 20 – 2025 – the choices are to fret, marvel and agonize over Trump or do the escape route and pretend that life is normal. It is not, but I am choosing the escape route – hence the…
No, not me getting wet, writing to you from chilly Edmonton in Canada, but doing much vicarious sailing as I follow along with the skippers of the Vendée Globe – around the world, unassisted, no land stops single-handed sailing race. This race is held every four years and my second time becoming a complete groupie….
Not only is Dorset a rural gem – it is also bursting with history and culture: Thomas Hardy country, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the Jurassic coastline, just for starters.
The watery highway that is the North Atlantic: you can fly over it in five hours or so OR you can take 7 days on the Cunard Queen Mary 2 as my husband and I did in September. This is a very mid-century way to travel and such a contrast to the airport/plane routine and all that stress and lost luggage!