Ahem, We had Alli’s parents, Laurie and Kay, to stay with us for a few days.…
Ahem This is the month that we all thought that winter would drift in, as there are…
Ahem With all this mist and mellow fruitfulness around, thoughts are turning to winter and…
Ahem Our annual holiday in La Hune, Mansonville was as eventful as ever, full of…
Ahem, Alli and Ella have done much of the family´s travelling recently (as well as…
Ahem The highlight of the month has definitely been the Farewell Party for the Departing…
Ahem The merry month started with hot weather but finished with abrupt downpours and a clammy-cold Whitsun…
Ahem Sunny April has confirmed our suspicions that in Basel winter was not just late. It hardly…
Ahem It has been a big month for travelling, featuring a major Stanbrook family holiday…
Ahem I’m sure you all know the feeling. For several weeks I had been wondering…
Ahem We welcomed the New Year with our customary annual family gathering on our balcony…
Ahem This has been a crowded, jostling rambunctious month, teeming with alarum, pele-mele, noises off…
Ahem I have noticed that the year is hurtling through its course at an ever…
Ahem We had some welcome visitors at the beginning of the month, most particularly Miss…
Ahem The incessant rain, east winds and recurrent rolling thunder determined that August was wraithed…
Ahem While the girls have enjoyed some time in England we have all spent much…
Ahem We have all been spending more time in the garden as the salad days…
Ahem Alli and I have been going out together! Yes! We have had dinner together…
Ahem, A proud father reports: Gwen has been winning medals in the swimming pool. Two…
Ahem We (Jessie, Ella, their friends and I) have been to see the Magic Numbers…
Ahem In the time of snow, always turn left not right at the motorway that…
Ahem A year full of promise started for us in the company of our friends…
Ahem December started while I was on a business visit to America, and I had…
Ahem We have had our friend Ramon to stay for a last few days before…
Ahem This month we have had many difficulties with our computers, the internet and wireless…
Ahem We have decided to try to sell our house in Sussex. I suppose the…
Ahem We were no sooner back from holiday than Jessie announced that she was going…
Ahem The first few days of the month of July found me alone in the…
Ahem Summer has arrived and so have all those things related to summer that we…
Ahem It has been another rainy month all told and we have all struggled to…
Ahem April has been described as the cruellest month and it is true that April…
Ahem March is an expensive month in the Stanbrook household, as I find myself presented…
Ahem The beginning of the month found us all in very bad shape, and even…
Ahem We’ve been ice-skating quite a lot, and mostly since just before Christmas. The whole…
Ahem. I bring news of my latest bicycle accident. It was about three weeks ago.…
Ahem I had another crash on the bike, well, a minor but abrupt fall as…
Ahem I have finished Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights, the first book in a trilogy for…
Ahem We are only now coming to the end of the drawn-out hassle of moving…
Dear Jessie Well now let me see……….. It’s quite confusing for me at the moment…