When Osyth wrote the quote about ordinary heroines, she forgot to mention herself.
This year my husband and I agreed to spend Christmas apart. Fear not, this is no dramatic announcement of impending divorce, but rather a reflection on the bloated airfares during the season of goodwill. In due time, I will tell of why we presently live one on either side of the Atlantic Ocean, but for now I will keep my council. It was my very own idea and I feel that it was a worthy protest, though I imagine it was inconsequential to the point of silence to those responsible for pumping up the prices with such unfettered glee.
Unwilling to risk being peeved by my own decision, I settled on a different solution to the celebrations than sitting in solitary splendour brooding over a meal for one all the while being eyed meaningfully by The Beady Greedy Bean.
In France, as in many other countries, la veille de…
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Bernadette YOU are such a person. Thank you for your kind words and most of all for your ever-generous, thoughtful and unerringly decent spirit. I am proud to know you.
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Thanks for sharing this Bernadette. I love dear Fiona and yet never see her posts in my reader and I do not see yours either(And I love you as well haha) My apologies for always being late!!! xoxo
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