MsCellany

Scenes from a suburban life
Pre-flight checks

Pre-flight checks

13 Aug, 2021 | Around the World

I’m planning to go home to the UK. Travelling in a time of pandemic is so fraught with extra paperwork and tests and anxieties not to mention the risk of travel cancellations that I won’t believe that I’m doing this until that aeroplane actually...
Postcard #15 Nottingham

Postcard #15 Nottingham

6 Aug, 2021 | Run the UK

Among all of the shanigans this week, I almost forgot to mention that I’d arrived in Nottingham. I almost didn’t make it to Nottingham this week due to a recurrence of a few health problems which are, I hope, resolving themselves now but caused a couple of...
Birthday break at The Peninsula

Birthday break at The Peninsula

6 Aug, 2021 | Journal

I was treated to an Encounter Break at that icon of Hong Kong, The Peninsula Hotel. The Peninsula was built in 1928 and presided over Victoria Harbour from the Kowloon side, its fleet of custom Peninsula Green Rolls Royces parked in the forecourt until the strip of...
N’est-ce pas?

N’est-ce pas?

18 Jul, 2021 | Through the Centuries

N’est-ce pas? No 8 from La Bonne Chanson Op 61 Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Text by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) https://open.spotify.com/track/2ccQqyf008JO362VLGXCbZ?si=1Sr14I4KTvqlupe8tmlkdg&dl_branch=1 Faure composed his cycle La Bonne Chanson for his lover...
Postcard #14 Leicester

Postcard #14 Leicester

18 Jul, 2021 | Run the UK

Postcard #14 Leicester Charging through the Midlands now, I find that I have passed Leicester with barely enough time to write my 14th postcard and post it.  I’ve never actually been to Leicester before, which is possibly surprising given my heritage but there...
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