Yesterday, I was explaining that I wouldn’t be available next week as I was about to go on a trip, and before I had time to really think, I’d said  “I’m so sorry but I won’t be here, I’m going home.” They …

There was a reason that I called my ramblings ‘Shutters and Sunflowers’. On a morning amble around the Saturday market in nearby Apt, that reason resonated from every building in sight. It seemed that the architecture everywhere was adorned with …