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 wafts […]

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 […]