Happy Easter
A very happy Easter to all my readers. I hope you all have a beautiful day.
Autobiography
Villa La Fleur
I came back from a quick trip to Warsaw a couple of weeks ago – we were still sorting my mother in law’s flat , but wwe ahd some timeand my husband had this brilliant idea to go to Konstancin and see a small private gallery which was apparently full of art Deco works. We […]Read Post ›
Pani Seydlitzowa z domu Lamparska
I just found this rather interesting (to me, at least) photograph. Taken in Egerton Court about 1966, from the left are my Aunt Alice, my mother Grazyna, her mother in law, Pani Seydlitzowa, as I called her, and Dr Ewa Janaszewska, a kidney specialist from Poland. More about her another time. Pani Seydlitzowa, as you […]Read Post ›
The Woman in Black
Clearing out. Two words I hate. Clearing out is so hard to do. But it has to be done. One thing at a time. Now I’m not going to write about every object consigned to the recycling bin. Most actually produce no memories. They are easily discarded. But The Woman in Black is a play […]Read Post ›
‘My writing is nothing. My boxing is everything,’ Hemingway
Not me. Or, out of my comfort zone, yet again. Last weekend saw me well out of my comfort zone yet again. My new son-in-law invited us up to Manchester to watch him participate in a boxing match for charity. At first we really didn’t want to go, boxing not being anywhere near the top […]Read Post ›
Alice Ruffell
She died exactly twelve years ago. My favourite aunt. My only aunt but still my favourite. Vibrant, sassy, kind and extremely self contained. She was the original who never complained, never explained. She was born Alicja Łomnicka, in Lwów, Poland in 1936. She became Alice Ruffell when she married. The marriage didn’t last – whatever […]Read Post ›
Sharon Jennings
It is exactly six years since Sharon went to meet her maker. Not an expression I would normally use, but her faith was her driving force. Everything she did was for the gleaner glory of God – very unusual in this day and age – but she sowed love everywhere. Fiercely intelligent, ferociously clever, her […]Read Post ›
Amsterdam frontages
We went to Amsterdam in March, my very first time and I hope not the last. I expected to be bowled over by the canals – which were lovely, but it was the buildings and especially the windows which excited me. Here are a few of the pictures that I took. I know nothing abou
Amsterdam
For M and A KE Thank you What a city. What a weekend. I had never been to Amsterdam before. Look out for the windmills. Look at the tulips. Anne Frank. Van Gogh. Vermeer. Rembrandt. Well, it was wonderful. But nothing like that at all. We arrived Thursday afternoon and went by taxi from the […]Read Post ›
The Long Walk
I went for a walk today. Not just any old walk but the beginning of a 100 mile walk. I have to complete it by the end of March. 31 days. Not too bad. I walk quite slowly. My legs aren’t very long. It should be quite manageable. Yesterday I walked 3.9 miles with no […]Read Post ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 