Ahem I was dreading my visit to the village Post Office to get stamps for our Christmas cards from the po-faced lady at the counter:...

Ahem The colors of this year’s Fall together with four weeks of bright November daytime sunshine have been extraordinary. Once the thick morning mists have...

Ahem, The Swiss are well organized in most things but, inexplicably, they are terrible at directing traffic around and through road repairs, leaving motorists (especially...

Ahem It was party time at Rue de la Scierie as I invited my best and most generous friends to celebrate my liberation from the...

Ahem Rough winds and rain were strafing the bean-poles when we returned home from torch-dry Andalucia, and early August was more like the snarling gusts...

Ahem July has been an exciting month for all sorts of different reasons, but notable among these were that Ella came of age with her...

Ahem Ella graduated from school at the beginning of the month in a beneficent blaze of family and friends, the ceremony attracting no less than...

Ahem A man from the mairie (local council) knocked on our door one day and asked Alli to give him back our second black rubbish...

Ahem March is a great month, known in Finland as maaliskuu, the “earthy” month when the earth finally becomes visible under the snow. And it...

Ahem This month turns out to have been one of the most sociable in all our family’s shared memory. In four short weeks Alli and...