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New buy - flood of memories. 1972 I was 17 n nearing 4 months traveling around Europe on my own. Hostels, worked on farm in Norway. Slept in Vondelpark, St. James Park, a hillside overlooking Oslo harbor. In Amsterdam was asked to join a bus to India but $ almost gone n father would have killed me

Was at a religious event ina parish with significant Spanish speaking community. I noticed the man in front of had his US passport in his pocket. This shouldn’t be a sign of the times.

This week’s variety: espresso scones with dark chocolate. Made blueberry muffins- they are almost gone already. Next: amazing sour cream recipe for Irish soda bread. Gotta love a work from home teacher work day! (I worked on stuff yesterday)

Found this boxed set of CDs and DVDs in a thrift store waiting for me. This album, especially Heart of Gold, followed the 17 year old me as I traveled around and worked on a farm in Europe in my gap year

Tried distracting myself with some snowbound baking. I did forget the vanilla sugar on top of the muffins. Scones were supposed to be orange cranberry. Opened the cranberry bag ew! Almost put sun dried tomatoes in. Found some cherries instead. Not distracted at all ☹️

Scone variation this weekend: lemon blueberry, two year old grandson’s favorite. Dropped off some - he calls them Nana muffins and always checks my hands when I come over.

So excited my Royal Mail package arrived from Waterstones with the just released 10th anniversary edition of my favorite Christmas book. A powerful message in these times (and it was fun seeing updates from the Royal Mail in my email).