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 […]