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#WordlessWednesday: Soaring

Lest We Forget

War Memorial in the cemetery of Korntal, Germany

“The Dead Admonish Us To Peace.
62,000,000 people died worldwide as soldiers and civilians in Word War II. 6,500,000 people were murdered by the Nazi regime. “

Lest we forget.

On Cambridge and Friendship and a New Book

King’s College, Cambridge

Anyone who says that online friendships aren’t real friendships has obviously never had one.

Louise Bates and I met a lot of years ago. If I remember rightly it was via the blog of another writer (Lee Strauss, to be precise, who had just published her first book). Both Louise and I were in our early days as bloggers and writers, and had yet to publish our first pieces. Her comment on Lee’s blog post caught my interest—who was this E.L. Bates person? She sounded li...

#FridayFragment: 14.10.2022

She had never been quite sure what to make of it. There it sat, on her kitchen table, sparkling up at her in its silent fashion.

“It sure is ugly,” she remarked to the cat, who went on cleaning his back end as if he didn’t care one bit. Which he didn’t.

“I mean, where is it coming from?” she continued. “Every fifth of the month, there it is. On the kitchen table. Shining and sparkling and glittering and, and—just sitting there. I mean, what is it?”

PS: No, I don’t know what it is, either. D...

The Things I Don’t Do Well

“Where do you get all those ideas from?” someone said to me the other day. “You have such an interesting life, you do so many things… You make things, and write books, and go to conferences, and go travelling…”

True. I do all those things. They are pretty special, which is why I write about them in this blog, and I’m very grateful that I can do them and that I can share them with you.

However, looking at the blog this past year, it has been rather full of stuff I do and places I’ve gone, a...

Three Weeks of Europe in One Dozen Shots

It’s been a week since Steve and I have been back from Europe. 888 photos later, we’ve seen Paris and Berlin, and we… Hah, no, we haven’t. We’ve seen a very, very small part of those amazing world cities. There’s not too much you can do in three days each; the main purpose of the trip was, as always, to visit family, so the bulk of our time was taken up with that. But we got in some great sightseeing regardless!

So here, in a nutshell (you can decide what kind of nut) are some of the most bas...

Have Bear, Will Travel

At long last, Steve and I are packing our bags again for a jaunt to the Old Country on a family visit! And you’re seeing that right: this time, we’re going to Germany via Paris – which is also a family visit, as one of the Offspring is going to uni there at the moment. I’ve never been there (neither has Steve, for that matter), so we’re bringing a guide book to tell us where the best spots are. Paris will be just a three-day stint, so we’ll have to make the most of it.

I thought that mayb...

#WordlessWednesday: Flag-lectic

#WordlessWednesday: Ocean Feet and Seaweed

Miracle Beach, Vancouver Island

#WordlessWednesday: Flavours of Oma’s Garden