Our friend, Prue, has been staying with partner Michael–only our second set of visiting friends in eighteen months. Prue is a walker–a 10,000 steps-a-day walker–and an inspiration, as such. She’s got me going again and I thank her for that, although I can no longer walk at her pace, so we don’t walk together. Yesterday […]| Robin Ellis
Maud, our adorable little hen, is a wise old thing. She is usually the first out the henhouse–keen to get on with her day. She sort of explodes out of the house, her little legs–in the cliched language so beloved and abused by politicians–hitting the ground running. Lucette likes to arrange herself properly for the outside […]| Robin Ellis
Less foreign now…. In fact–Tout va très bien chez nous! 🇫🇷 Yesterday we collected our Certificates of Naturalisation from the Prefecture of our department (Tarn). Then we sat in a traditional brasserie in a traditional French square and drank a traditional French petit café and felt good about it! […]| Robin Ellis
The death is announced of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis Are you married? Am I married? I have a house, a wife, children–the full catastrophe! Anthony Quinn’s Zorba answering Alan Bates oh-so English teacher’s question in the film Zorba the Greek–before they dance the epic dance. The music, of course, composed by Mikis Theodorakis, who […]| Robin Ellis
Meredith was searching the archives for photos of a very young Beau yesterday and picked up a photo album for 2012–the ones that Apple used to do so well. We spent an enjoyable half-hour revi…| Robin Ellis