Strangers
When I walk down our very long street on my way home from work, I first pass grocery stores and bus stops which eventually blur into Victorian tenement buildings and small businesses. Walk further along and the other end peters out into vine covered bay windows, rose gardens and a huge wildlife preserve. I find … Continue reading
Travel Tuesday: Venice
Venice. You’ve seen it in the movies: marbled ballrooms, grand canal boats, Harry’s Bar. It’s a place of beauty and magic and wonder. Ancient mystery and quintessential glamor romantically crumble into the sea. Gilded balconies and rustic window boxes tower in ever lane, filling the city with color and life. Those famous winding waterways … Continue reading
Travel Tuesday: New York City
Travel Tuesdays: where I can look fondly at wonderful places, people and journeys while we prepare for the exciting adventure ahead… A quick one this week as we are on the road (oh the delights of Kent and Sussex!) … and an important one I think, because this is a vintage postcard from somewhere I … Continue reading
Travel Tuesday: Amsterdam
When I think of Amsterdam I usually think of its airport. I’ve been in it more than a dozen times and it’s hands down my favourite airport (though Charles de Gaulle’s atrium inspired terminals give it a run for its money artistically). It has a stunning fireplace and grand piano lounge. And a library. And … Continue reading
Travel Tuesday: Santorini
I once spent a few weeks backpacking in the Greek Islands. It was utterly blissful. Or I remember it as blissful anyway. My foggy, wistful brain likes to leave out the bits where we tried to sleep on the deck of an overnight ferry full of partiers and hounded by sub-zero sea breezes. The part … Continue reading
Travel Tuesday
The new house is finally taking shape. And by taking shape I mean the walls are no longer bare. I don’t know about you, but the powdery deadspace of cheap white walls leave me cold. So at the weekend we hung pictures. Paintings done by Bean’s sister. Vintage opera posters I’ve been hoarding. A pair … Continue reading
Thirty Things bid farewell.
I have not done all of my 30 Things. Not the way I promised, anyway. I did not go on the computer [except for work] for days and days, but that’s not the same as unplugged. I have almost entirely altered my diet, but not in the way I originally envisioned. I have complimented all … Continue reading
Brunch in our house
An actual conversation: How about I make you breakfast in bed — would you like a fried egg and toast? Ooh. Yes please… can I have my toast cut into little triangles? Sure, Triangle of my Heart. I am bit obtuse sometimes. Nah, you’re a-cute love. Well that makes us equilateral then.
Que Sera Sara? 