Free-Styling @60
I write about my experiences & observations in France; Wildlife & Conservation; Travel; Sustainable Food; Cheese-making; Painting & the Arts.
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Wissant 2 - local Challenges and Producers plus a Birthday Bash (opens the original)
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Introduction:House sales, packing and paperwork continue. One week from today all our belongings will be packed into two lorries and transported 297 miles by road to Stena docks in Birkenhead near Liverpool. Followed by an eight hour overnight ferry to Belfast and then a final one hour drive north to our new home on the Causeway Coast and Glens of Antrim.I am taking Jerry, our mischievous smokey grey tom cat, to the vets for a health check and to request a low dose Gabapentin prescription to red
Wissant 1 - a history plus my Olive and Fig Trees and a Break for the Border… (opens the original)
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Marilyn Monroe: a Portrait (opens the original)
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Introduction:Video: YouTube, Candle in the Wind, Elton John, Top of the PopsIf you are a regular reader of Free-Styling with Caroline, you may recall that I previously referred to my much missed and loved mother Kitty as “an exotic, glamorous strawberry blonde Marilyn Monroe.”<a class="image-link image2 is-view
Free-Styling with Caroline (opens the original)
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Hello and Welcome to new and existing readers. I’m Caroline, an Irishwoman, teacher and veterinary nurse, living in France and Britain for 30 + years. I am currently in the throes of selling up and moving back home to the island of Ireland.I tentatively started writing here on Substack in summer 2024, after my 60th birthday celebrations with family in Ireland.Originally I had called my Substack publication Free-Styling @60. Yet two years into this adventure, I do not wish to define my writing by
Bergues - l'autre Bruges de Flandre (the other Bruges of Flanders) (opens the original)
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