by Jean Llewellyn | Oct 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
…This time in the shape of a new puppy. Ellie, a four-month-old golden retriever, arrived two weeks ago from Mexico City, via New York where I met our friends and her wonderful breeders, Teté Nevarez and Gerardo Garcia. She is the two-year-younger sister to Jenny, who...
by Jean Llewellyn | Oct 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Hurricane warning… Well, we survived the wrath of Dorian unscathed, although the day it hit Nova Scotia as a category two hurricane certainly presented interesting challenges to the regular dog walking. Without having to be too creative, it meant quick forays into the...
by Jean Llewellyn | Sep 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’s not something you see every day, and certainly not all in the same day. But…! A gloriously sunny morning after a subtropical cyclone passed through, pushing hot air and 100% humidity ahead of it – which made for a rather uncomfortable night – the surfers were out...
by Jean Llewellyn | Aug 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
During a regular Skype chat with some dear friends in BC yesterday, I was initially at a loss for words because our lives these past few weeks seemed to have been fairly mundane. “No, they’re not,” says Peter. Of course, suddenly one word or moment of recall triggers...
by Jean Llewellyn | Jul 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Decisions, decisions, decisions….. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein would have been proud of my investigative instincts and herculean efforts to identify and purchase a new… KITCHEN SINK! From $80 for tinny stainless steel of no discernible provenance, to a Blidö –...
