We have gone back to summer this week! I am wearing my thin cotton dresses that I thought might have to stay in the wardrobe until next year now. Granted 23C may seem almost chilly to some of you - but to us it is just a lovely hot day ( Read more... )

I once wrote a story called 'A Powerful Absence' - I think that phrase sums up the effect of the death of Elizabeth II ( Read more... )

I took this picture from the front of our house on Thursday. It made me think of The Straight Road.

I know now that it was the day that keiliss died - may you have found the straight road easily my friend.


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I am still worried that LJ may disappear outside Russia. After all, we are a point of contact with the outside world and, as Putin tries to convince Russians that black is white and up is down, this might eventually be noticed. Apart from the possibility of it being cut off at our end.

But, as I mentioned to cairistiona7, I know that my journal is often ( Read more... )

Today was Shopping Day! Also Housework Day! What excitement ( Read more... )

I was at a funeral today. Leslie Guthrie was our minister at church for many years - he had been there for a couple of years before I returned to the island in 1988 and remained until he retired in January 2009 ( Read more... )

So many bad things happening around the world that I sometimes wish we did not live in an age where news is global and instant. I almost wish that I didn't know about that horrible killing in France, the bombing of the Kuwait mosque, and worst of all the carnage in Tunisia. Worst not just because of the number of dead and critically injured, but ( Read more... )

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Last night D-d and I went to a memorial service for the 50 people killed in the Summerland Disaster 40 years ago ( Read more... )