The Merry Widow
Constance tries the Cancan
Constance was excited to go to the MET’s Live in HD presentation of Franz Lehár’s Merry Widow, starring Renée Fleming as the eponymous femme fatale...
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A January Journal for Opal
Getting caught up
Opal has been wearing her Flicker pen nib down to a nub, trying to get caught up with her Journal.
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January Gardening
Tulip Noses
The patient gardeners have got some results to post at last! After Nine weeks and four days of storing the bowl in a cool dark place and occasionally dampening the soil…
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Crocus
Flowers in January!
Tansy and I had a lovely walk yesterday in the mist and the mud – and we were very excited to see the first little crocus of the year sticking up through the muck…
Gingerbread Dalahäst Cake
Tin Bathtub
Some delightful IKEA cake tins have appeared, and Min thinks she has convinced Opal and Agathe that they are new funny-shaped bathtubs.
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Comet-gazing
Lovejoy
Agathe and Opal have been anticipating another exciting celestial event. They have been peering animatedly at the southeast sky at sundown for the last few evenings, but all they have seen up till now was a full moon on some nights and fog on the others.
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Winter Gardens
Corkscrew Hazelnut
We don’t normally experience abundant snow, but have had a deluge of rain for the last few days. At the first sign of a break in the clouds, Agathe and Opal dashed outside for some fresh air…they found some beautiful things have been going on in the garden despite the 30 mm of rain in the last 24 hours…they found Hazels beginning to produce leaf buds and catkins!
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