Ahem This hurtling year crashed to its conclusion amidst a welter of car problems, last-minute work deadlines, large cheques outgoing, in-laws and daughters incoming, and...

Ahem After an evanescent snow white weekend at the tail-end of October, the first week of November was warm and sunny in and around Basel....

Ahem   For those interested I proffer a work update. I am drafting, editing and writing, now known as "content generation", and content in so...

Ahem   Alli's 50th birthday took place amid a maelstrom of memorable events and in an oasis of hot and sunny weather. After considering and...

Ahem We shared the final days of our holiday at La Hune with our Belgian friends Laurence, Claude and their son Corentin, which provoked another...

Ahem   There are some smells in daily rural life that can only be described as irredeemably evil. Over this neck of the woods periodically...

Ahem   Ella has landed her first job in journalism, getting selected as the music editor for the Loughborough University magazine, Label. She has to...

Ahem   The first weeks of the month afforded few favors to those who regard Beltane as starting the light half of the year. The...

Ahem   There has been a revolution in our household. Since I gave Alli an Apple Ipad as a wedding anniversary present, she has scarcely been off...

Ahem   In these partially wooded fields of this corner of the Alsace on a weekend morning, single people in cars or vans drive around...