Making Plans – Self Assessment Time (with rather poor results I think!!)

Exactly 7 weeks ago today I wrote about Making Plans… In the meantime,  I haven’t really learned anything new about myself but rather just confirmed my suspicions!!!   So what was on my ‘to do’ list? Write about the last US trip Finish writing about other recent trips that I didn’t get around to completing at […]

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Where in the World?

I haven’t been on Killiney beach  since Friday – and just look at what’s appeared over the weekend!!               Ah …so this is what prompted the trail…..     ….as far as White Rock….  White Rock is a small cove way back behind me…   I’ll do my bit….. […]

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Sculpture Saturday

  This weekly challenge is hosted by Mind over Memory For my second week,  I’ve chosen L’Arbre des Voyelles (1999).  You’ll find this bronze piece at the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris.   Produced by Guiseppe Penone,  you will assume,   at first glance,  that you are looking at the roots of a fallen tree.   On the one hand,  […]

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Vignettes from a lifetime of Travel

X is for  Xunantunich   Anuradhapura,   Kanchanaburi,  Chichicastenango,  Chefchaouen,  Xunantunich……. I can rattle off place names with 3 or 4 syllables but don’t ask me to remember anything shorter (and don’t get me started on people’s names – I was always useless!). I wrote my first vignette in February 2019.    Wasn’t I the lucky […]

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