Paris (France not Texas) is a romantic city, I don’t think anybody would contest that observation, right? My second date with my future Hubs was to Paris.  My daughter, when we were talking about this last night said, “Wasn’t it awkward?”  I looked at Hubs, we shrugged our shoulders and I said, “No!  We’d known…

Our living room has two lovely cream leather sofas sitting on a carpet of warm aubergine, surrounded by matching furniture.  If you know us at all you will understand that matching is not quite how I would describe our preferred interior decor, but matching it is, right down to the spare bedroom.  Well, I was…

Each evening I take the rubbish out.   I would do it in Garland too and on walking in our driveway to the trash cans I would think, “I’ve done this very night for x number of years,”  I’d look up at the sky and see the moon, stars, clouds, a dull orange glow from…

My brother asked me to keep his two boys this week.  They are on summer holiday and have decided that they no longer need to go to summer camp so their divorced parents are shuffling them in order to juggle their demanding jobs.  Part of the shuffle defaulted to me since I am only a…

My youngest daughter was standing in our lounge doorway yesterday morning, she was telling me what she and her boyfriend were going to be doing on this, the last day of his visit.  Her eyes were bright and she looked extremely pretty but then I noticed her lips droop downwards and I realised she was…

We went to a seaside town last week, quite reminiscent of where my parents used to live, only larger.  Where there were a half a dozen fishing boats left stranded in the bay when the tide went out, here there were hundreds!  Hubs wondered how the fishermen got to their beached boats?  Some were a…

Mammograms are important cancer screens.  They are a way we can look after ourselves as women, be kind. Within weeks of my arrival in the U.K. I was invited, by the National Health, to participate in a free, confidential routine cancer screening programme in Bromley.  No requests for me to make an appointment, just a…

Today hubs and I took back seven towels we had bought three weeks ago to the shop from whence they’d come. They were Ultimates, thick and soft, 100% cotton, made in England. We washed them and they shrunk so the bath towel became a large hand towel. They did not absorb water, in fact Hubs…

I am an introvert.  This does not mean I am shy, quiet or afraid of speaking in public, it means I re-charge differently. When extroverts are in the spotlight, “on” all the time, surrounded by people, bombarded by outside stimuli, they are charged, re-charged and re-charged again.  They come away racing with adrenalin ready to…

The first month we were here we had a garden party, go back through my blogs and read about it.  There was one person there whom I immediately felt a kindred spirit for but we played it cool not wanting to overstep boundaries. Hubs and I got on with our lives which included putting my…