Ahem As the days suddenly became shorter to help spin the year to its conclusion, Gwen distinguished herself for the second time by running the […]

Ahem The great year-long French house purchase saga has been successfully concluded. We have taken nine tenths of the law of 13 Rue de la […]

Ahem Just before it started to get cold, I spent five nights in Marlow at a scientific conference, sequestered in the stuffiest of stuffed English […]

Ahem We are creeping forward steadily on the house purchase. The results of my medical, reported to you all last month as satisfactory, in fact […]

Ahem So there I was, dressed only in swimming trunks and a balloon, floating on my back down the Rhein, the opening bars of Das […]

Ahem You may be amused or possibly worried to learn that I have participated in my first serious run for 25 years when I turned […]

Ahem What a month to witness, savor and remember! What a gurgling gaggling bubbling reverberating stream of sheer hyper-super-activity it all was! In thirty days […]

Ahem Residents of the Appenzell Innerrboden canton of Switzerland voted overwhelmingly in their last open-air annual assembly to ban nude hiking. Naked hikers have become […]

Ahem The Ferrette Morris Dancers danced at the village market in Oberwil, performing in the Cotswold Morris tradition, and Peter the Squire, a good friend […]

Ahem I wouldn’t call it Thelma and Louise exactly, but it was kinda cool as a filmic road trip narrative. True, we were actually middle […]