My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Occupation	Urban Planner, Retired
Location	Canada
Introduction	My name is Annette, I’m married, and I’m retired. I have three sons and three grandsons.
Interests	Travel, photography, gardening, politics, duplicate bridge, walking with my dog, art, architecture, cooking.
Favorite movies	Shawshank Redemption, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia, A Touch of Evil, On the Waterfront, Farewell My Concubine
Favorite music	Jazz, Classic Rock, Some Classical Music
Favorite books	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Possession by A. S. Byatt, A Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh's wartime trilogy, The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, novels of Penelope Fitzgerald and Michel Faber, and all of William Dalrymple's non-fiction. Most recently, I am a great admirer of the book, Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger, which is a description of his travels through the deserts of Arabia in the 1940's on a camel with the Bedouin.