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By Shelly Ann Posted on 3rd Jan 20213rd Jan 2021

Reflections

People enjoy reading blogs for many reasons, mostly because people are interested in people. And when those people are your acquaintances, neighbours or even friends you have yet to meet, all the better.

Categories:Passions, People, Places, Random and randonnes, Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Posted on 1st Jan 202130th Dec 2020

CHRISTMAS REMEMBERED

Christmas on the prairies in the 1930s. We had so little. We had so much.

Categories:People, Places, Pleasures
By Guest Blogger Posted on 31st Dec 202030th Dec 2020

New Orleans and the Réveillon Dinner

Two o’clock in the morning may be an odd time to start a feast consisting of chicken and oyster gumbo, game pies, soups, souffles, lavish desserts, brandy and coffee, but this is how it is done.

Categories:Places, Pleasures, Random and randonnes
By Guest Blogger Posted on 30th Dec 202028th Dec 2020

Aliens, Stars, and Fences – (A Christmas Tradition)

Arriving at the top, we could see a view of the whole city of Edinburgh below us, and we would stop walking and lie on the grass and look up at the stars.

Categories:People, Places, Pleasures
By Guest Blogger Posted on 29th Dec 202029th Dec 2020

A Christmas Memory – Valdivia, Chile 1964

By Lucia Preller
Suddenly, one of the upstairs windows opened up and Agustin told my little brother that they were all in bed.  His father had lost his job, so there was no Christmas for them that year..

Categories:People, Places, Random and randonnes, Uncategorized
By Yolande Karin Fenny Posted on 27th Dec 202026th Dec 2020

Chapters

Life is moments. Life is magical. Life is the mundane. Life can be hard, unjust, and cruel. Life can be beauty and light. Life in all its complexities has seasons … Continue reading Chapters

Categories:People, Places, UncategorizedTags: People, Places
By Shelly Ann Posted on 15th Nov 202019th Nov 2020

A little bit of hygge…

‘Hygge is the complete absence of anything annoying or emotionally overwhelming. It’s being surrounded by calm and relaxing things’

Categories:Passions, Places, Pleasures, Random and randonnes
By Guest Blogger Posted on 25th Oct 202025th Oct 2020

Mud

By Hilary Jocelyn – I tried desperately to struggle loose, but each attempt led me deeper and deeper into the murky glue, until I was imprisoned up to my waist.

Categories:Passions, People, Places, Pleasures, UncategorizedTags: bog, mud, Scotland
By Guest Blogger Posted on 10th Oct 202011th Oct 2020

Thanksgiving Reflections

by Ilse Turnsen

“Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic”
Imagine the green earth restored!

Categories:People, Places
By Guest Blogger Posted on 20th Sep 202020th Sep 2020

The Second Wave

By Hilary Jocelyn The first wave had been bad enough, as it hit us unexpectedly right out of the blue, turning us thoroughly upside down and sideways. Then, right on … Continue reading The Second Wave

Categories:Places, Pleasures, Random and randonnes, Uncategorized
By jenniferacurrie Posted on 13th Sep 2020

What a country! Transporting bound animals in the trunk of a car; less of a crime than transporting humans!

Categories:Places, Uncategorized
By Shelly Ann Posted on 12th Sep 202013th Sep 2020

Wandering Wakefield..early.

Gratitude, light and river love🌿

Categories:Passions, Places, Pleasures, Random and randonnesTags: Wakefield: Gatineau River;, wandering

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