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Isobel Cunningham has published short fiction and poetry. Her book, Northern Compass is available on Amazon. She was born in Wales but Montreal is her adopted home. She speaks French, Modern Greek ( it’s a fun story) and a little Spanish…oh, English too, of course. She welcomes comments on her blog and looks forward to chatting with you over cyber-space.

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  • Up the Mountain

    And a warm spring day. A great day for a walk up Mount Hymettus . My dear friend who walked part of the Camino Frances with me took me and another friend a short distance out of Athens. This is what we saw A path remeniscent of the Camino and a view of Athens, a…

  • It Took a Long Time to get Here

    But…. Don’t try to make juice. These are the “ bitter” ones that decorate the notoriously narrow sidewalks of this ancient city. My dear friend from the Camino of 2021, Christiana, is hosting me in her interesting and comfortable home in Holargos. Swiss Air took care of me on the evening flight out of Montreal…

  • The new Suitcase

    Off we go with good wishes, offers of lifts, reminders, excitement, obsessive checking, dreams, fears, expectation, trepidation, wonder, questions, cleaning of fridge, arranging of flower pots for best sun, waiting, people watching, searching in various bags, pockets, waist packs, gauze bags pinned to various pieces of underwear, panic at “ lost” keys, rummaging , changing…

  • A Spring Walk

    A spring walk in the back country of the Laurentian mountains was a big treat today. More beauty is on its way

  • Changes

    The light has changed and things are changing on the park. I want to be ecstatic, I want to lean into it but I’m worried that we haven’t had enough snow, that our winter was deformed, off the ‘ normal’ track. I read an article yesterday that all the famous gardens in Britain are already…

  • Talking about the weather

    Is there anything more boring, mundane, commonplace than talking about the weather? Except…. when a magical snowfall greets me as I look over to the park. Now this is what I have been waiting for all winter! Storybook snow, kind snow, forgiving snow that covers all ugliness, all brown and sickly grass, all grey salted…

  • A new experience

    On Monday I got an email asking if I would like to come on as a guest on the daily radio show of the CBC broadcasting company here in Montreal. I had two day’s notice because the invitation was for Wednesday. It was made in response to an article of mine that CBC had published…

  • Exactly ten minutes

    Probably going to his job early in the cold morning with only the trees sleeping through winter to see him. The walker is in the Metro by now and the winter sleeping trees one dawn closer to Spring.

  • At Last

    If they bring out the spring flowers, who am I to argue. My own efforts are lagging behind, but I have faith Well, I’ve got a shower, haven’t I? Got to keep the lemon tree’s and frangipani somewhere! My plants get the benefit of a “ sad” light. Designed to chase away the winter blues…

  • Bad … and good

    The bag is full of blue salt that I “borrowed” from a bin of salt that is to be used on the steps of my condo building. All night freezing rain fell on the city and two kind friends messaged me to inquire if I was going out, to warn me of how slippery it…