Rather a lack of Sparkle (december REFLECTIONS 2)

December Reflections 2019 no 2: Sparkle

Through the Window (December Reflections 1)

Post 1 for December Reflections 2019 "Through the Window"

What’s been happening?

Wracking my brains to try and find something to write about in order to bring the blog up to speed. There's not a lot. This is my "me" blog and a fundamental difficulty is that when we are travelling, there simply is very little "me time". We drive for perhaps three or four hours, pitch …

Time to reflect (and to catch up)

I am still here, not yet lost. We are in Portugal, having travelled down via the Spanish Mediterranean to Alcossebre, where we stopped for two weeks, and then across country to the Algarve, arriving in Sagres on Tuesday this week. We have paid for a month's stay so I hope to find some time to …

You got me singing the blues

We brought Alexa away with us on this trip. Having discovered that The Animals had new albums out this year, we instructed Alexa to play one of them to us and I have to say that I am enjoying it thoroughly. Old material in a new compilation, I believe. I think that I had completely …

Life in the slow lane

We left Tournay early today, calling at Carrefour before leaving town. We drove away in weak sunshine - cloudy weather, but dry - and headed off back in the direction from which we had come yesterday. That direction was uphill, the first of many ascents, and we were soon in the lane reserved for "véhicules …