No journey home yet!

It was to take place this month. 

Now everything is cancelled as International travel

is still not really safe.

It's been two years since I've been able to travel

 to England due to the pandemic situation.  

I don't think I've stayed away that long in the 

 almost 59 years since emigrating to

the USA!

Torquay, Devon - circa 1960's

Torquay - Last visit home - May 2019

Am I homesick?

You bet I am!

We have rescheduled everything and now hope to make it

across the pond in September.

Family and friends over there think this is the best plan

and, sad as it is, we have to agree. Hoping by then life will be

better, perhaps not normal, but safer and more cheery and 

manageable for travel long distances from the comfort of home.

Seeing home in a new light. . . . . . . . .

I was gifted with this beautiful contemporary style poster featuring my English

 hometown when I was visiting for Christmas last year - thank you again for such a

thoughtful present Jean (we gals have been friends since our schooldays).

 I really like the soft colors, quite different from often garish versions of posters.

Because I've been unable to find a ready made frame to fit, I purchased an 

inexpensive black artist's stretched canvas and attached the poster with

 double-sided tape. An easy-peasy answer and all done in a couple of minutes. . . . . 

. . . . . and I think it looks perfect.

The poster is hanging next to the bed and I really enjoy looking at it

 each day and remembering my beautiful faraway home on the bay.

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Awaking to another horrendous happening here in America,
 last night's Las Vegas concert attack, just breaks my heart. 

I pray for all, those gone forever in the blink of an eye, those critically

 injured fighting for their lives, those injured who will need care and will remain

 with both physical and emotional scars, and those who thankfully escaped injury

 but will forever live with the terrible memory of what should have been a happy night out. 

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