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 Rob is now retired.  It's taking a bit of getting used to as I like to do things at my own pace and he is always on the go.  It's n...

 Although the Queen was 96, we were still all very shocked to hear the news on Friday.  I've been listening to the English radio, watchi...

 In my last post I wrote about Olivier's birthday being on 22nd February.  I thought that it would be a special year for him.  This week...

 For Christmas 2019 Olivier gave me a ‘few lines a day’ 5 year diary.  The first entry I made on 1 st January was that 2020 had a good feel...

 This post also appears on my Facebook page: Last year our Japanese pagoda tree flowered for the first time and was alive with bees, bumble ...

  Well what a year we have had.   It started in January when my mum was taken ill at my sister’s house.   She’d been staying there for Chris...

Dominique has been invited to speak at a conference in Moscow in the autumn. She’s had a bit of paperwork to fill in as you can imagine. S...

Don’t always come off as they should. Rob came home from work with a nasty cough one day just before Christmas. By Christmas Eve we both h...

We moved house on my birthday in September. We were sad to leave the village where we had been living for the last 7 years, but it was time...

I never thought that I would take a pause from blogging for such a long time. Since we visited Prague we haven’t stopped. We were mainly v...