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MrsM opens the curtains
Dimanche
The sky is bright blue
but there is a chill in the air.
It is indisputably Autumn.
Seine
MrsM has a pang of longing
for the slow, seeping warmth
and pine scents of Provence.
The Pine Tree at St. Tropez
MrM looks up from his newspaper
MrM
"Would you like a little jaunt to Avignon?
Flights, hotel, car...
it won't take very long to organise."
Palais des Papes, Avignon
MrsM is very surprised.
When did MrM get so good
at reading her mind?
The Cliffs at Castellane
MrsM ponders her fate.
She is married to a man
who books impulse weekends in Provence.
Life could be worse.
*****
all paintings by
Paul Signac (1863 - 1935)
Dimanche
The sky is bright blue
but there is a chill in the air.
It is indisputably Autumn.
Seine
MrsM has a pang of longing
for the slow, seeping warmth
and pine scents of Provence.
The Pine Tree at St. Tropez
MrM looks up from his newspaper
MrM
"Would you like a little jaunt to Avignon?
Flights, hotel, car...
it won't take very long to organise."
Palais des Papes, Avignon
MrsM is very surprised.
When did MrM get so good
at reading her mind?
The Cliffs at Castellane
MrsM ponders her fate.
She is married to a man
who books impulse weekends in Provence.
Life could be worse.
*****
all paintings by
Paul Signac (1863 - 1935)
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MrM is the stuff of legend, bless his heart.
ReplyDeleteMr UorB has been expressing the same longing. I'd better get cracking.
ReplyDeleteMr D is taking the youngest on a jaunt to Sunderland this weekend. it doesn't have the same feel to it somehow.....
ReplyDeleteMrM is a keeper.
ReplyDeleteI was taken to Normandy last week, on a whim. I am lucky too!
ReplyDeletethat's got to be worth a coffee cake at the very least - enjoy!!!
ReplyDeleteMr. P plans jaunts to Hull. Enough said.
ReplyDeleteWonderful!
ReplyDeleteRecently, The Gardener expressed nostalgic feelings about camping on Dartmoor..... Not the same really, is it.
MrR likes a trip to Pittsburgh once in a while. 'Nuff said.
ReplyDeleteDoes MrM offer training courses for husbands not quite as enterprising as he is?
ReplyDeleteI just want to say that I enjoy your blog - immensely! And that I think that you truly deserve not only Mr. M but a weekend i Avignon. Bon voyage!
ReplyDeleteAs a single woman, I am compiling a list of Things to Look For in a Husband. And my question is: where does one find such a man as MrM? He seems a real treasure.
ReplyDeletewell, what a lovely husband you have there!
ReplyDeleteI am not quite sure if I recognise the paradigm presented as MrM above - like all paradigms of course there is a tendency to shift occasionally. Fortunately MissM keeps letting me know when I fall short of her high standards..
ReplyDeleteThis jaunt was planned before I knew that the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge had visited the area. At one stage we shall be pretty close to where they were staying. Just goes to show that our friends, Glen & Mary, have an excellent eye for the best spots.
What a man MrM!
ReplyDeleteSo he's a keeper then? ;)
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful and suitably impromptu time.
Enough is enough A., hand over that man pleasing coffee cake recipe pronto! Thinking of you..xo K.
ReplyDeleteappropriate robot word: freeWOW
oh you lucky lucky girl! He does sound like the one we all dream of - congrats - but I know you do your part too - it takes two to tango I have always heard
ReplyDeleteYep, much worse....last (disastrous) holiday was in 2005!!!! and before that....1998 - Baking caravan/oven Hastings Haven - on My credit card!!
ReplyDeleteSusan
PS - sorry to moan, not had a day out this year either.
i'll say.
ReplyDelete:^)
Hope it was sweet.
Maybe
if i keep reading/catching up
i'll discover it was?