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The Librain
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Former professional school librarian, now retired through chronic illness. Trying to keep cheerful by reading, drinking lots of tea, blogging my new life, and my love of bling!
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Dear Lauren, thank you again for commenting! I enjoyed my walks last week, but we are struggling with a heatwave…
Delighted to hear you are still walking and being quite stylish while doing so! I love your laps you and…
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Category Archives: Family
Outfits of the week 23/09/22 with a birthday and a funeral
Hello and welcome to Friday’s post. Well, a lot happened while I had a break from the blog, didn’t it? To begin with, Younger Son visited, Lovely Husband had his 70th birthday and then we had all of the sadness, upset, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Outfit of the day, Scarves, Special days, Wardrobe
Tagged birthdays, gifts, Hermès, Lands' End, presents, Queen, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth II, Regina
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Update 22/08/22 with 70th birthday planning
Welcome to the new week on the blog! For the last few weeks, I have been planning for Lovely Husband’s 70th birthday in September. He doesn’t want a big fuss, but I think that it needs marking properly by his … Continue reading
Outfits of the week 05/08/22
Welcome to Friday’s post! Today is a very special day as it’s Younger Son’s 30th birthday. Time has passed so quickly and Lovely Husband and I sat looking at photos of our two “boys” over the years wondering how it … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Family, Jewellery, Lifestyle, Outfit of the day, Scarves, Wardrobe
Tagged Bill Skinner, birthdays, blue, Hermès, Lands' End, lapis lazuli, Marks and Spencer, Mythiques Phoenix Coloriages, navy, necklace knot, pink, red, white
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Update 28/03/22 – memories of Mothers’ Day
Here we are at the beginning of a new week. Yesterday was Mothers’ Day in the UK and I had a wonderful day with lots of treats! Younger Son sent me a lovely box with 40 different tea sachets and Elder … Continue reading
Update 04/02/22
In Monday’s post I wrote: “Anyway, in this household things seem to be pretty quiet at the moment and long may that continue”. When I was writing this sentence, I wondered for a few seconds whether I was setting myself … Continue reading
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Update 24/01/22 with light sources!
Welcome to a new week on my blog. I do hope that you had a great weekend. Ours was rather up and down. The stress of these current times is really getting to Elder Son. In addition to his usual … Continue reading
Happy New Year 2022!
I do hope that you all had a great Christmas and that 2022 will be a wonderful year! We were so happy that Younger Son was able to visit for a few days and that the four of us were … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Family, Jewellery, Lifestyle, Scarves, Special days, Wardrobe
Tagged blue, Christmas, gifts, gold, Grand Tour Collection, Hermès, Le Premier Chant, New Year, presents, Pure Collection, purple, yellow
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Update 13/12/21
I do hope that all of my visitors/readers/friends had a very pleasant weekend and that, if you celebrate Christmas, your preparations are going well. Most of the gifts that I have ordered for the family have now arrived and I … Continue reading
Update 06/12/21
Well, I’m back! It has been an “interesting” time since I last posted: some lovely days, some awful days and some in the middle. There were definitely some lovely days with Younger Son visiting. He brings lightness, hugs, happiness and … Continue reading
Outfits of the week 26/11/21
Once again, it has been a difficult week for us. There has been a lot of stress in the house, brought on by a number of incidents together with my and Lovely Husband’s medical issues. I just hope that everything … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Scarves, Wardrobe
Tagged Hera, Hermès, Johnstons of Elgin, Liberty, Plumes en Fete, shawls, stoles
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Dear Anne, would air conditioning help or does it rather hurt you with your lung conditions? I'm on the fence…