The Wandering Merediths
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It's been several years since Nan and Jerry set off on their nomadic cross-country existence. He paints - think Group of Seven blocks of colour - she writes. Naturally.
So, here they are at what might be the end of the world or might only be Northern Ontario. Really Northern, not the gentrified lakes and towns of the Muskokas Southerners think of when they think North.
It's winter, and it's freezing, but they're among friends. As new beginnings go, it could be much worse.
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- Part 5 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
- Part 1 of The Wandering Merediths
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The Blythes and Merediths have always had pets, some more memorable than others. Dog Monday kept faithful vigil for Jem, Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr-Hyde terrorized Ingleside. Even Jack Frost scandalized the good folk of Glen St Mary by defying his gender and having kittens.
So, Nan Meredith, several years married, thinks nothing of it when one of her daughters adopts a cat. Or rather, when the cat adopts her. In retrospect, that was an error.
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- Part 2 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 9 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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Nan and Jerry's young daughters are nothing if not as intrepid, adventurous and generally stubborn as the first grey-eyed and red-headed woman to enter Green Gables. They have her form for happening to people and places, too. Which, well, Old Jack Curlew might have an opinion or ten about. But you'd better believe so do the Misses Mandy and Miri Meredith.
Here's a lesson in how to charm a curmudgeon.
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- Part 3 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 14 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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There's an outing to a Jute mill in this one. And a real earworm to go with it. Just as well the younger Misses Meredith are well-beloved of the travellers, because mill aside, there's not an awful lot in Dunfirmline...
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- Part 4 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 20 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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Ever since the war, Nan and Jerry have lived nomadic lives. He paints; She writes. Susan's horrified, but secretly proud. Anne's proud and secretly horrified. But only because the young Mandy and Miri lack an ancestral home like Green Gables, you understand. Only because Green Gables was such an epoch of Anne's life. As for the Misses Meredith...well, sometimes having multiple homes is wonderful. There's music and friends and kitchen dances. But it can be painful, too. Learning to live with the two is an art, and Mandy Meredith is still mastering it.
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- Part 5 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 21 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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There are strange things done by the midnight sun...but none quite so strange as the long Ontario winter Nelly comes into the lives of Nan Blythe as was, her family and friends.
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- Part 6 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 34 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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It's a funny thing about grief. It comes in different shapes, colours and sizes, not unlike clothes. If only it had a returns policy. Another funny thing; Sometimes it's easier to tell it to an unsuspecting stranger than immediate family. So Nan's young daughter discovers on the eve of Susan Baker's funeral.
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- Part 7 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 37 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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Jims didn't mean to say anything. Certainly not anything earth-shattering. Defiitely not about what Jem Blythe in boyhood would have called "the mushy stuff."
But on this particular afternoon, he and Amanda Meredith were judging a sandcastle. It was a very long, very hot afternoon. They had to talk about something. In retrospect, Jims would not have picked "the mushy stuff." Also in retrospect, it's entirely possible that neither would Amanda Meredith. But here they both were, talking love and romance by the edge of the sea.
Oh? The sandcastles? Someone won, probably. Neither of the judges ever remembered who.
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- Part 12 of Realism and Romance
- Part 8 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 42 of Warp, Weft, and Twine