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Ab-so-bloomin-lutely Loverly: RIP Audrey Hepburn

A lightly-edited post from that originally published several years ago.  RIP, sweet lady. Audrey Kathleen Ruston, who died thirty-one years ago today (far too soon), was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of a member of minor Dutch nobility and a peripatetic English financier father who later changed his name to… Continue reading Ab-so-bloomin-lutely Loverly: RIP Audrey Hepburn

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Ab-so-bloomin-lutely Loverly: Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Kathleen Ruston, who died thirty years ago this month, was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of a member of minor Dutch nobility and a peripatetic English financier father who later changed his name to the double-barrelled “Hepburn-Ruston” to show his connection (probably imagined) to one of the husbands of… Continue reading Ab-so-bloomin-lutely Loverly: Audrey Hepburn

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Occasional Quote of the Day: On Whining and Deafness

Two years ago this October, I had the very great pleasure of driving to Armagh, PA, a tiny little town in farming country about one-hundred miles East of us, in West-Central PA, where Mr. Right, my stepdaughter Jenny, our granddaughter and I had lunch at Griffith’s Tavern, a nice little diner of the “hot meatloaf… Continue reading Occasional Quote of the Day: On Whining and Deafness

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Ab-so-bloomin-lutely Loverly

Audrey Kathleen Ruston was born 90 years ago, on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of a member of minor Dutch nobility and a peripatetic English financier father who later changed his name to the double-barrelled “Hepburn-Ruston” to show his connection (probably imagined) to one of the husbands of Mary, Queen of Scots.… Continue reading Ab-so-bloomin-lutely Loverly