Beautiful Lettuce
After months of dodging snails and slugs, I finally harvest my homegrown oak leaf lettuce — only to find it tastes exactly like the supermarket kind.
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Holidays at Home
A five-day staycation at home turns into breakfast in Paris, a Latin Quarter bookshop crawl, and eight new books eating into my reading pile.
Spring Is Here…almost
A Spring Garden in France, Full of Surprises Thanks to the former house owner, I am now enjoying the flowers of her labour. It’s our first spring garden in France,…
Christmas Holidays Start with Homemade Muffins
Holidays have almost begun! Today is the first day when I don’t have to teach at the university. The university classes restart on 3 Jan. Well, I say ‘almost’ because…