Indivisible—except by 3 and 11
Indivisible—except by 3 and 11. Thirty-three years ago today I met Kelley. It was a scorching hot today—just like today…
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Kitten Report #14: One year in the big wide world [photo, video]
Today Charlie and George are exactly one year old. They came to us as tiny rescue kitties, the only survivors of a litter of six, but today they are lords of their domain. And for their birthday we gave them a brief adventure in the great outdoors…
Read more30 years in the US
Today is the 30th anniversary of me moving to this country to live with Kelley.
Read moreKitten Report #07: the chameleon twins [photos]
Charlie and George are now 5 months old. One minute they look very grown up, then, in the blink of an eye, they revert to the itty bitty new-to-the-world kitties we brought home two months ago.
Read moreKitten Report #05: Visual rehab [photo and video]
Kitty report #5, in which Charlie gets home-made visual rehab and begins to adapt to his visual impairment
Read moreHerbs and Flowers
A few years ago I used to grow herbs in pots (pot herbs: perbs) and witter on about them at great length. Recently I decided to start growing things again, this time brightly-coloured and sweet-smelling to attract wildlife.
Read moreNic is dead
My sister Helena would have been 52 today. She died when she was 24. She called me Nic.
Read moreSave the date, 14th April, London
Anyone who’s in London between 14 April and 27 May can see a photo of me taken in 1981 by Anita Corbin.
Read moreMorning after
We tend to celebrate most things, and we often do it with wine, almost always with splendid food, and every single time with conversation.
Read moreFour-word love story
In honour of Valentine’s Day: the short version of how meeting Kelley changed everything.
Read moreYesterday morning was beautiful
My morning looked and sounded lovely. Perfect weekend.
Read moreHild roundup #8
This will be the last links roundup, I think. Hild‘s been out six weeks and the pace of reviews and interviews is…
Read moreLilacs in the mist
lilacs and honeysuckle We’ve had a run of magnificent weather here in Seattle. That’s scheduled to change tomorrow. But here’s a photo…
Read moreMarriage equality hearings at the Supreme Court
Tomorrow the Supreme Court hears arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Proposition 8 case regarding the legality of same-sex marriage in California. On…
Read moreThe blush that means spring is coming
Well, something thinks it’s spring here, even if the weather gods are disagreeing rather sullenly. (Sky as low as a zinc pot-lid,…
Read moreA photo of me
Generally only seriously weird people ask me for my photo. (Oh, and publicists…) Oddly, I’ve had two requests for photos in two…
Read moreWe’re back…
We left the country for a few days. We were invited up to Vancouver: missing the election seemed like a bonus. Not…
Read moreMy new toy: a longseax
My new toy is a replica of the seax of Beagnoth, thought to be of ninth-century Anglo-Saxon origin. Though in my opinion (neither particularly…
Read moreDiptic: a nifty new photo app
I’ve discovered a nifty new app, Diptic, that let’s you snap pix and then build a composite: a mini document of the day….
Read moreIn which I play the ukulele
slinging on the old uke to show it to Kelley’s folks I’ve had my ukulele exactly one week. I’ve just recorded my…
Read moreSummer evening
Thanks to two neighbours–one witting, the other not so much–yesterday we had lavender creme brulée for dessert. And thanks to some miraculous…
Read moreMe and my father
He’s 86. He used to be half an inch taller than me. Now I’m a couple of inches taller than him. He…
Read moreSome women can see a hundred million colours
We saw this cloud right around noon on Wednesday. Those amazing colours lasted only a few minutes. It was basically a cloud-shaped…
Read moreBee feet on my food
I’ve been eating a lot of chive flowers. (A lot, period.) This is a photo I took the other day with my…
Read morePerbs in bloom
Well, I meant to write a meaty review of Superior for today but instead lost myself in watching the bees zuzz in…
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