Going away
If this blog has a colour it is green, the soft lush green of Wales. If it has a theme it is the garden and the landscape and the kitchen - growing things, cooking things, eating them with family and friends. Sometimes I think the rhythms of my life now are so seasonal and repetitive that they are not very interesting to others but this is how it is, so green and gold and grey are the colours. This is a fawn and brown, bleached gold and blue blog today. We went to Fuerteventura. The reasons were entirely pragmatic: flights out of Liverpool at civilised times of day; a warmer, brighter climate. I don't know what I expected really. I had never been to the Canaries. If I don't have deep countryside or wilderness I like cities, great European cities like Paris or London or Rome. It was a very short break away from the various responsibilities of family. I hadn't done any of the usual stuff, hadn't read up the history, learnt a ...