Post 19/2023 Sunday 28 May . . . A week home in Indiana. Last Sunday we stood for two hours in a queue at Heathrow to reach check-in. We made the flight with no time to spare for breakfast. That was fine. We soon had a meal on the flight. Today we stood in a … Continue reading Home from Home
Post 18/2023 Cornwall UK Friday 19 May . . . We walked to Una Restuarant for breakfast, cleared out the fridge, did almost final packing, squared up with our landlady, said goodbye to neighbours, had dinner at the home of Steve and Marilyn, basked in touches of euphoria from our sojourn this year and years … Continue reading Brilliant time
Post 17/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 14 May . . . To describe our week would take a high tide swell of words and photographs--with too little time to surf through it all. We conclude our stay here at week's end. So, a few words and photographs are called to the rescue. The week encompasses: Coronation … Continue reading The week in a few words and photos
Post 16/2023 Cornwall UK Thursday 4 May . . . It was anything but a stay-at-home week. The days waxed strong in the company of niece Jan and her spouse John and Jan's daughter Jenny and her spouse Rory. Jan and John are spending a fortnight with us, Jenny and Rory came for a week … Continue reading By foot, taxi, bus, boat and train
Post 15/2023 Cornwall UK Saturday 29 April . . . Welcome to a brief glimpse of two National Trust houses: Lanhydrock in Cornwall and Castle Drogo in Devon. Friends took us to visit these two country homes this week. Lanhydrock was completed in 1651, rebuilt after a fire in 1881 destroyed part of the building. … Continue reading A legacy of houses fires the imagination
Post 14/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 23 April . . . Here's an entry from yesterday: 3:30pm, home from walking in the rain to get groceries for company coming next week. Umbrellas drip-drying in the guest bathtub/shower. At one point we stopped to chat with Jimmy, a neighbor from last year, He wondered whether we had … Continue reading Treading familiar and new paths
Post 13/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 16 April . . . Books and more books have been and keep being published. I can't imagine being without a book; even as I'm grateful for having enormously whittled down my personal library. Library loans are a treasure. As are used bookstores--for donating books and finding others. At a … Continue reading Books and more books
Post 12/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 9 April . . . Holy Week for many among the Christian faiths ended with today's celebration of Christ's Resurrection. I take to heart that in Jesus' death and resurrection death has been defeated and salvation has come. With 21 other people, Marty and I gathered at 6am for an … Continue reading Easterday
Post 11/2023 Cornwall UK Saturday 1 April . . . Today, in windy, changeable weather, we set out for lunch in St Erth. First we took the nine-minute branch line to St Erth Station, then walked 30 minutes to the village. We had a very nice lunch at the Star Inn, (fish pie for Marty, … Continue reading April’s upon us
Post 10/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 26 March . . . Advocates for removing certain books from school and public libraries, have a question to consider: why go against the verdict of history? Censorship lasts for a day. The free pursuit of knowledge, while often circumscribed, endures. My favorite image of a library is that of … Continue reading An enduring fountain of knowledge a library offers
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