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Monday, May 23, 2011

Pergola roses

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Nearly all the so-called "old roses" on my pergola are in full bloom today and, for some of them, this is the first time they'...

Same tree, different seasons

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Back in January, when the two horses were residing at Gamone, this was a view of the linden tree with the lower paddock in the background: A...

Staircase is still standing

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In an article entitled Awards , which I wrote nearly four years ago, I made fun of a dangerous-looking concrete staircase in the village of ...

Ireland stops the USA

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The website where I found this hilarious clip said: " Obama's armored vehicle can protect him from everything except ridicule. ...

Tree sawed into firewood

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In my recent article about cutting down a dead tree at Gamone [ display ] , I should have pointed out that the tree in question is known in ...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

On the face of it

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One of the prominent facial features that I share with my dogs is the presence of a vertical indent between the nose and the upper lip, call...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Action will start in Australia

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Here in France, it has just turned midnight. The time in my native land, Australia, is 8 hours in advance of France (since God decided—as ex...

Ronsard in bloom

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I wrote about this rose bush a year ago [ display ] . Its resurrection is amazing. Cueillez dès aujourd’hui les roses de la vie Quand vous s...

Cherry season

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The cherry tree alongside the house is loaded with fruit, but it's located on a steep embankment, which makes cherry-picking difficult. ...

Magic images

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When I was a ten-year-old child in South Grafton, an older boy named Ervin McNally , living on a farm on the other side of the road, gave us...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Madeleine and the dogs

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Whenever my neighbor Madeleine drops in, it's always a joyous encounter, not only for me, but for our dogs. My Fitzroy leads a barking...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Justices (plural)

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This fabulous photo shows the prestigious US lawyer Benjamin Brafman saying " Shut up " to his bowed client, Dominique Strauss-K...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Dirty talk

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After my arrival in Paris in 1962, I was exhilarated—among countless other things—by the possibility of purchasing and reading the original ...
Monday, May 16, 2011

In the DSK drama, I smell a rat

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We've been shocked, this morning, by videos of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs. In France, it would be totally illegal to publish s...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Strauss-Kahn affair

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Many people in France are in a state of shock after learning today at dawn (French time) that Dominique Strauss-Kahn —the brilliant French e...
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State of Gamone garden

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Don't imagine for a moment that the present state of my rose pergola and garden at Gamone might be the outcome of my horticultural skill...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Dead tree at Gamone

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Normally, dead trees at Gamone don't worry me at all. On the contrary, I see them as attractive havens for wild life, from birds through...

Proselytizers in Aussie schools

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The Australian secondary-school system promotes a preposterous so-called chaplaincy program , which means that public funds are used to enab...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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