Happy Easter
Flowers from my garden.
Mitsoukiko
Do you remember this Japanese shop? It was one of my favourite places in South Kensington in the eighties. It had beautiful window displays ranging from covetable silk kimonos to beautiful glazed chopsticks to porcelain teasets, (much imitated now by Tiger, I notice.) I used to love going there for various presents, even though it […]Read Post ›
I have a reader!
Did I say I liked trains? Well one reader took me at my word! Monday evening I was confronted with a huge parcel of books! I’d been warned that I’d be getting a book – and I was very excited. But I wasn’t expecting six! Thank you, Angela. I have to make it public, because […]Read Post ›
Trains
I went to Amersham yesterday to go to the hairdresser. I last went to her about seven months ago and was going to go in October but she moved salons from Marlow to Amersham. Too far away I thought. How hard can it be to find a hairdresser near by? Turns out it’s very hard. […]Read Post ›
Washing
Cleanliness is next to godliness. I am usually clean, I think. Am I godly? I don’t know. But this morning I had difficulty being either. I woke up this morning almost unable to get up because of the pain in my knee. I had spent most of the night in agony, imagining the consequences of […]Read Post ›
Mothering Sunday 2026
My mother was married on November 29th, 1952. I was born just over 40 weeks later. A honeymoon baby. I think it was a difficult time for the whole family. My father was still a student – his education had been shatteringly disrupted by his forced exile to the Soviet Union and then by several […]Read Post ›
Climb every mountain.
As you know I don’t like stairs. I don’t like going uphill. I huff and I puff but somehow I don’t fall down. Just as well as today we were going to go to the top of Sintra Mountain to see the old castle, but we left it too late (we’d booked lunch yesterday, but […]Read Post ›
The Rain it Raineth Every Day
Actually it’s stopped now but yesterday was a shocker. Wind, rain with one or two very short bursts of a clear sky when we made a dash for it to get to a restaurant for something to eat. In the morning though we got an uber to get to the palace in the centre of […]Read Post ›
The Kindness of Strangers.
I haven’t written anything for a long time. No time. Busy busy busy. But finally the time came to reset, recharge, rejuvenate. The reason? My husband’s birthday. Last year we went to Lisbon and had a fantastic time. This year we decided to go somewhere new. Not far from Lisbon in fact but very, very […]Read Post ›
Happy Christmas, Wesołych Świąt, Feliz Navidad.
It’s that time of year, when I realise that I still have some of last year’s written but not sent Christmas cards in a box somewhere, this year’s unwritten ones in a box in my bag, no stamps, no time, posting deadlines past, the Christmas tree is up but not quite finished, the food shopping […]Read Post ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 