Ahem The fortnight before our extended Christmas vacation in New Zealand was backpacked with incident and action. My myriad internecine bank accounts, loan agreements, scrip […]

Ahem It was great to welcome Ella and Sam here for a few days. They spent some quality time at home playing Monopoly, throwing darts […]

Ahem It’s all happening here in the southern Sundgau. One cat-black night was disturbed at 3am by sudden thudding explosions, a power cut, urgent voices, […]

Ahem I was looking northwest across Basel from the Hinterhof Dachterrasse, after being prompted to view the sunset. There were several tall cranes cornering building […]

Ahem There was a pleasing symmetry to this month as it was precisely bookended by the 60th birthday parties of good, close and long-standing family […]

Ahem The month started cold and windy when Ella, accompanied by four of her university friends, came over to see us for a few days. […]

Ahem When I work from home my window on the world overlooks the meadow facing north west in this part of the Leymen agglomeration known […]

Ahem, My parents-in-law Laurie and Kay paid us an extended visit on their way back from Austria, following a flying visit a couple of weeks […]

Ahem A complicated month was this. Normally, claims on my time and attention have arranged themselves in polite symmetry to take up my availability in […]

Ahem, The first days of the month saw me chasing around town in vicious and ever decreasing circles, scouting for credit to cover a temporary […]