Here you can find all of my posts in chronological order, from when I first realised this long-meditated project in my Paris attic.
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Paris – Day 12
How is it day 12 already? Well, I got up later than I usually set for myself today, and still got to the bus on time. I think we just managed to hit the rush hour, but ya gal still managed to zip into a new bakery, and get to work at just before 8:50!…
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Paris – Days 8, 9, 10, & 11
I have a lot to catch up on. I thought I would give you some variety and add in a recipe, a poem, and a Letter. On some days I genuinely thought I wouldn’t have time to write a proper journal post. So: Saturday, Day 9 I took a grasse matinée and didn’t really get…
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A Love Letter to the Sea
Dear Sea of Troubles, as Hamlet liked to call you, I wonder that I do write to you, because you are with me all the time, inextricably bound, as I am bound to Lord knows where, cast out on this vessel as I am, until I meet the Sun in where it sets eternally. Or…
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Poem: Lost in Paradise
I struggle to shake hands with God: It’s not that I’m ungrateful, Unworthy wouldn’t sound so odd, And maybe mildly hateful Of myself, I could do better now I could just write it off, but I stare and wonder, still, at how You treat me like an offcut. I struggle to shake hands with you:…
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Recipe: Borsch
This is an Eastern European comfort food recipe handed down on my mother’s side. Ingredients: 1 decent onion/2 small ones1 tbsp cooking fat/oil2 big carrots/3-4 small ones1-3 cloves of garlic (to taste)1 beetroot1-2 big potatos/3-4 small onesStock cube/teaspoon of powdered stock dissolved in a cup of hot water1/2 cabbage2tbsp salt (ideally slightly coarse)2tbsp Lemon juice/1tbsp…
At Least Afloat 