That doesn’t mean packing, though it does mean laundry.

I’m baking today, taking food (as well as wine) for our retreat.

I’ll be back. I hope…..

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I never did get out of the kitchen. I did the laundry first. That always tires me. But then I made bran muffins, with craisins and walnuts. Then I was tired. I can’t remember what I had for lunch, probably a bran muffin.I fell asleep upright on the sofa waiting for something to burn-it didn’t. By the time I folded the laundry and put it away, I knew I couldn’t bake the Amish loaves until I’d had a real nap. I always, only, nap for half an hour. But I set the timer on me, and took a pain killer. This time I got it mixed up—the time and the time—for too long. I didn’t wake up for an hour. I guess I needed it.

So I got up and made lemon poppyseed loaves: four small ones and one big one.

Now I can think about getting ready to go. Almost. I have some stuff I have to use for dinner—and give i away? I don’ feel like eating. I’m having a glass of white wine; maybe that will give me an appetite.

I must start thinking about tomorrow. I’m taking you with me, that is, if you want to come.

Okay, this is where I left off a few days ago:

FRANCES HYLAND

“Frances Hyland OC (1927 – 2004) was a Canadian stage, film and television actress. She earned recognition for roles on stage (including ten seasons with Stratford Festival) and screen (including her performance as Nanny Louisa on Road to Avonlea).

“Born in 1927 in Regina, Ms. Hyland attended the University of Saskatchewan before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, from which she graduated with the silver medal, according to the Stratford Festival. She made her professional debut in London in 1950 and quickly won her first major role, as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire. During the next four years she acted with John Gielgud and was directed by Peter Brook.

In 1954, she returned to Canada at the invitation of the Stratford Festival's founding artistic director, Tyrone Guthrie, to star in the Festival's second season as Isabella in Measure for Measure opposite James Mason. In nine seasons as a member of the Festival acting company, her roles included Portia (The Merchant of Venice), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Perdita (The Winter's Tale), Desdemona (Othello) and Ophelia opposite Christopher Plummer's Hamlet. In 1979 she returned to the Festival as director of Othello.” (Wikipedia and others)

N.F.SIMPSON

Norman Frederick Simpson (1919 – 2011) was an English playwright closely associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. (also Wikipedia)

You may not remember him now, but a couple (?) of his plays were actually produced in Toronto, and yes, Frances Hyland starred in at least one of them. A scene from one of them was the trigger to my tangent. I remember her coming into the scene as a visitor and taking some refreshment in a sip from a book that was offered. I do that with books, take sips from something I have enjoyed. That’s why I hang on to so many of them.

No use now. No one reads [except you and me] and no one will want to buy my library after I’m gone. The books will be more deceased than I.

Does that cover the missing information from last week’s blog? I really doubt that any of my readers will have taken the time to look it up for themselves.Time is difficult

This coming week I will be taking two days off for a private writers’ retreat with three friends gathering in a sylvan setting in the Bruce Peninsula to walk in the woods (not me—no legs) and to think and write (mainly me—I never leave my blog, pitiful as it is) and to drink—all of us—not too much.

Last weekend of August.