Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Sitting in the sun…

There is nothing nicer than being with people you love and sitting in the sun by water. This glorious afternoon was in Boston a couple of weeks ago and it was a perfect day. The sun was glorious but not too hot or oppressive; there were loads of interesting and happy people about,  families, friends […]

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Yellow bricks

In my genealogical novels about the family history of the Radwinter family, the main character Thomas researches the lives of his forebears; here are no ‘exciting’ discoveries of links to royalty or famous people, just ordinary lives of ordinary people – which is the same for most of us! However, Thomas discovers that several of […]

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Jelly… fish

There is a little saying in our family, when one of the others is going on about something serious or boring, or serious and boring, “I like jelly!” I like jellyfish… I think they are incredibly beautiful and interesting – at a distance! I have actually eaten jellyfish, and thought it interesting, an unexpected texture […]

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Bark!! American bark!

I have a fascination with tree bark, the infinite variety of unique patterns and marks never fail to catch my attention as I’m wandering through trees. There are a few trees I recognize by their bark, but far more that I don’t. I was looking at a painting by Jackson Pollock which is in the Museum of […]

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