Ahem Rain has been falling rather too often this month, great gallons of it bucketing down at the slightest hint of lowering cloud or greyish […]

Ahem The bureaucratic contortions of sending a dog from Switzerland to New Zealand indicate one of the most time-consuming assignments in human existence. Poor Licorice, […]

Ahem The Fasnacht, German Europe’s Mardi Gras, a controlled sequence of mayhem throughout Basel, has come, and, with a puff of multi-coloured confetti, a piccolo […]

Ahem After such a long Christmas holiday break, going back to work in early January had an unwelcome back-to-school feel about it, and I adjusted […]