Happy Birthday to morgandawn! May you be graced with many more, but that are stress and pain free!

Happy Birthday to feochadn !  Single malts all around!

In his surfing, JL finds interesting stuff, which he subsequently posts on his blog in between pictures of the cats. Recently included are a tool to map and calculate just where and how far you walked and how many calories you burned. Another link helps you find your latitude/longitude, then positions the location on a contour map. It can help you ( Read more... )

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Events:1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, in her own journal, emmarytz requested that I post this recipe for an apricot tart, and I thought that I could actually use the opportunity to make myself write in my own journal and put the recipe here ( Read more... )

happens tonight. We leave tomorrow morning. I want more time, and one hour doesn't cut it ( Read more... )

yesterday we found our way to the Pompidou center, because JL wanted to check out the modern art exhibit. But I had spent a couple of hours wandering in the rain looking at the incredible displays of fabrics from all over the world - no one has ever mentioned that this fabric market exists, and if I lived here I would take up sewing again. Britex ( Read more... )

yesterday we found Sacre Cour, the huge white church up on the top of Montemarte, by riding the little Montmartrobus that shuttles people to and fro the hill. The church will be very impressive in about 500 years, but it looks too new right now! There are beautiful mosaics and stained glass windows ( Read more... )

I'm travelling with JL, and E&L with whom we've travelled before. E found this place on the web. It's managed by a Canadian/French couple. Tucked into the 4th floor of a large, historic building, facing a courtyard away from the busy streets, it's in a crowded arrondisment that has tiny streets on the only steep hill in Paris. There is a living ( Read more... )

we drove into Paris ( Read more... )