http://lynne.blogmaestro.com or an Englishwoman living in Mexico Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:51:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is 7.45 am and the town is still shrouded in the grey light of dawn.    My thermometer says it is 50º but it feels five degrees less than that, and as I stand on my terrace looking west I can see the first glimmer of sunlight spreading through ... http://lynne.blogmaestro.com/2008/09/27/saturday-sunrise-in-the-west/ The hailstorm that decimated the bougainvillea also shredded the purple flowers of the mexican bush sage, salvia leucantha, growing with the jasmine on the terrace.    So this morning I have just had to cut back all the straggly stems and now I fear there are not enough left to attract the hummingbirds.   ... http://lynne.blogmaestro.com/2008/08/09/keep-the-oleander-flying/ Twenty years ago on the eighth of the eighth eighty-eight my eldest son was about to be eight years old.    We were having a discussion about it and I may have sounded disappointed and then he said - oh but Mum it's even better, because I am going to ... http://lynne.blogmaestro.com/2008/08/08/on-being-eight/ ...but all Wednesdays are atypical.     Though maybe some things are routine:  for the last two weeks I have been attending the tai chi sessions at 9am at the Biblioteca.     The library does not open to the public until 10am so Dan-Horia has been teaching more than twenty ... http://lynne.blogmaestro.com/2008/08/06/a-typical-wednesday/ When I wake up and it is grey and raining and it carries on being grey and raining, day after day, it so depressing and boring.    But when I wake up here and it is blue and sunny and it carries on being blue and sunny day after day ... http://lynne.blogmaestro.com/2008/08/04/manic-monday/ Well I printed off the blogging guide but it has not guided me into all the little intricacies of the blogging world that I thought it might, so I have given up on tags and pings at the moment and thought I would just write a few lines instead.   ... http://lynne.blogmaestro.com/2008/08/02/saturday-in-san-miguel-de-allende/ I don't mean what am I doing HERE ...you may find out about that later ...but what am I doing writing this blog? Well this is the tricky bit!!    I am sure all you bloggers out there know your widgets from your taglines and your permalinks from your pings but ... http://lynne.blogmaestro.com/2008/08/02/how/ but of course I did not know that until I visited Mexico for the first time in the spring of 2003. I thought I would try to set up a blog for my friends in England to share some of the experiences that I have had since buying a house here ... http://lynne.blogmaestro.com/2008/08/01/i-have-been-in-love-with-mexico-all-my-life-2/