A beautiful and talented lady

Quite a few years ago, when we lived in town, we had a lodger - an American PhD student, studying at the University of Edinburgh. He had a very beautiful girlfriend - the young Rhiannon Giddens. She stayed with him/us for a month one summer. How we enjoyed getting to know her, hearing her amazing voice around the house, and discovering what an incredibly talented girl she is. She plays the fiddle, banjo, her voice is trained for the opera, she can dance, and she even does beautiful beadwork. I have a necklace she made me, to prove it! She also sings in Gaelic, and if you pick up this link, you can hear her singing in French.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl64j0-fieY

Her singing career is really flying now. She was on Jools Holland's New Year show at Hogmanay (I missed that, dang it - I don't like Jools Holland much!), and last night my daughter and I went through to the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow, to hear her performing, for one night, at the Celtic Connections music festival. Needless to say, she didn't disappoint.

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In a vase on Monday - colour

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Possibly the last post and a sizzlingly hot vase on Monday

The border in our tiny garden is in an in-between phase at the moment and not very colourful, but elsewhere there are pops of high summer colour and I have brought them together in my vase today. The running wave uses Blogger as it's vehicle and they are changing the way a post is created but unfortunately I cannot make the new format work. I can't progress beyond the title! I cannot navigate to the main body of the post to create text. The new template has no prompts for adding photos, weblinks, to format the text, change font etc. It may be my old MacBook that's as fault but I can't do anything about that!! Are any other IAVOM bloggers who use Blogger having the same problems? I have tried, three times, to contact Blogger through their 'Help' prompt and received no feedback or contact whatsoever. This post is using the old 'Legacy' format, which no longer permits any kind of formatting of text, and so after four attempts I have finally manage...

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