News from the Villa

I have been SO happy to get home – to be home! Travel in retirement they ask. I am really liking being home. And Philip has and does SO much work – hours and hours – to make this a lovely place to be. And it is a lovely place to be! So, yes I…

Where does mistrust end?

I will in time, have a more detailed written commentary on the two books I am reading/listening to. The first one is a biography of Gorbachev. The great Russian statesman who took the USSR through its inevitable disintegration. He proved to be a man not of the cloth of his land, but someone who could…

So this is retirement

When I was working – oh so long ago – I would say to Wendy, ” I can hardly wait to be able to get a cup of coffee and a good book and sit outside and read on the back deck!”. Well here it is – even a picture for evidence! I really love…