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...