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Just a Picture: Holiday’s End

By StevePosted on September 11, 2025Posted in RoamTagged lavender, pause, personal freedom, reflectionNo Comments

If only you could smell a picture… The last day of holiday. Normandy. Standing outside between rain showers in a fleeting moment of sunshine. The smell hits you and it is just so perfect, redolent of the summer that has gone. Lavender. The last blossoms, almost drying on the stem. Perhaps that drying accentuates the […]

The Known Escape: Taking a Break in Normandy

By StevePosted on September 8, 2025Posted in Ways of EscapeTagged change, Multiple Sclerosis, Normandy, personal reflection, RestNo Comments

Familiarity can be comforting, gives you peace of mind. So this year we are back in Normandy, a place we have been to twice before in the same house. I have written of it before, fearing it would be overrun by tourists. Well, where we are staying near Saint-Clément-Rancoudray is reassuringly quiet. Of course, I […]