Sonya

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Love cats, wine, books & old things. Cotswolds & Paris via Vancouver, Toronto, San Francisco, Amsterdam & London.

Video of the top of a cotswold stone roof with a very loud helicopter hovering in the grey sky above.
Paris weather app showing highs of 34 to 35 C for the next 6 days
One of 82,000 Cdns in the UK
Pic of a Canadian player taking the ball down the pitch on a tv, sitting on a 17th century oak table.
Photo from the window of my wee flat on Paris with shuttered windows on the next building, and blue skies with light clouds still lit by angled sun at 21:05, with a tree on the background.
Alanis singing the national anthem to open the World cup in Toronto.
Photo of a book shop window with Marjane Satrapi works displayed, including Persepolis.
Photo of the full moon rising behind a Paris stucco apartment building. It is very bright with wisps of cloud blurring the edges.
Bite from the terrace over pink flowering bush with the tower of Gaudi’s Familia Sagrada in the distance.
Screen capture of birds heard and identified with Merlin app: Short-toed Tree creeper, blackbird, starling, Eurasian blackcap, Sardinian warbler.
Photos of the Pont-du-Gard taken from the river side. The aqueducts arches reflecting in the calm water; cloud-studded blue sky above
Painted wall with a heart motif in a church in Gordes.
Looking down the river in L’isle -sur-la-Sorgue on market day.
Poutine stand at Victoria Park market
Theo a white with chocolate point Birman snowing with his head in outstretched paws.
Video of the Jardin Lixembourg in the sun, people relaxing.
Video of a male blackbird with bright yellow beak eating seed from the stones below the feeder.
Photo of Cotswold stone courtyard various flowerbeds, pits and metal baskets. Multiple Coloured tulips and other spring flowers visible as well some overgrown terrace in need of weeding.
A mass of bluebells in the sun the flowerbeds next to an old Cotswold stone shed wall with rickety windows above.
A crow sitting on a metal roof, glancing back at me over his shoulder. He has a red and white band on his left leg reading 479 (as best I can make out) and a white/grey band on his right leg.
Park with Notre dame towers in the background. Leaves on trees coming out. Sun shining.
Video of an Amsterdam canal on a sunny day with a boat moving towards the bridge I’m standing on. Gorgeous canal houses on either side.
Amsterdam Centraal station
Canadian pub in Paris with hordes of people trying to watch the gold medal men’s hockey game of Canada v US.
Photo of tv screen showing Canada playing France in ice hockey at the olympics. The screen is sitting on a 17th century console table and a plant can been on the left.
View across the river Seine to the rive gauche. Sun peak if through clouds & on to stone buildings & the quai.
Photo of a log burner with a bright orange flame fire inside after *eventually.* figuring out it wasn’t lighting properly as the draft was closed.
Theodore a small fluffy white with brown points cat sitting on an antique chair arm.
Theo, a platinum Birman cat with chocolate points snoozes on a purple and blue wool throw on the back of a sofa, enjoying the warmth of radiator.
A sleepy Theo, a very fluffy white with brown socks Birman cat having his belly rubbed.
Pic of the moon behind a building, clouds ebbing past. Red traffic light reflecting.
Archie, a large and extremely ginger floof, sitting behind a pink label plinth. He looks concerned.
White floof and ginger floof on top of kitchen cabinet.
Interior pic at night of a cosy wee bistro with vintage adverts on the wall.
Gorgeous autumn flowers including bright pink dahlias in a garden next to Place des Vosges.
A gorgeous red and pink and gold tinged sky with pale blue background over dark tree and stone buildings.
A heart shaped pink ceramic bowl with cheesy French soup goodness
Looking through trees to the bookshop ‘Shakespeare & Company’. Lots of people out and about the awning is a bright mustard yellow.
Pic of a Bialetti moka pot with delft blue base & handle, and blue patterned top. So pretty. Dolce & Gabbana collab.
Fire burning hot in a log burner.
A fast Frecciarossa train in Milan station.
Photo of the edge of a stone column/arcade with a cypress tree and other trees framing a view of the valley to a vineyard. Sun shining at an angle.
View over the valley to the Banfi vineyard.
Santo Spirito Church with the setting sun on it. Very simple plaster facade. Beautiful.
View out onto a canal through grilled windows.
Burano style risotto made with local fish stock.
Grand canal of Venice, lined with pastel coloured palazzi with a gorgeous retro wooden speedboat water taxi zooming past.
Picture from above looking down a courtyard garden, lined with contrails stone buildings. The sun is shining and there is a blue sky.
Ceramic figure of a woman with copper glaze sitting on a solid stone base. Very organic shape.
A large terracotta pot in front of a Cotswold stone wall with an abundance of apricot coloured roses under planted with some currently non-blooming alyssum.
A beef brisket slow roasted cut of beef swimming in a light gravel with roasted new potatoes & purple splitting broccoli. There is a beeswax candle lit and a glass with red wine & a glass with water.
Hampton, the winning keeper, celebrating after the Lionesses win the Euros.
Pic of JoJobMoyes book ‘We All Live Here’ . A hard a on with a turquoise blue cover with spring leaves tree on left and autumnal tree on right. In the background in the other side of the room an antique chair in need of upholstering with a dodgy cashmere throw covering it beside a 17thc oak table with a tv.
Early evening sun lighting up a walled garden with a pond/fountain. View if across rattan chairs and tables with garden seating around the pond.