Ahem My last few days of the year at work saw a definite improvement in my social life. This had absolutely nothing to do with […]

Ahem The rainy season here in the Cote d’Ivoire should have finished in October at the latest, but there were still regular thunderstorms throughout the […]

Ahem Some weeks ago while in France, I was dragging an old double mattress out to the car, carelessly using the fingertips of my hands […]

Ahem Sailing and I have never been close. My brother was the sailor of the family, while I stuck to cross channel ferries and the […]

Ahem I have been to the Royaume Congo, a famous nightclub close to where I first lived in Abidjan. After warming my hands by a […]

Ahem, A calmer period followed the frenetic, cloud-bursting month of June, and the weather was more temperate as I again spent large amounts of time […]

Ahem I’ve been busy. My mother occasionally used to say that there was “no rest for the wicked” and that “the devil makes work for […]

Ahem While I have been very comfortable over the last five months in my tiny studio with its view of the Plateau and under the […]

Ahem, With all the excitement of Alli’s visit at the end of last month, which we both treated more as a holiday than as spousal […]

Ahem, Late in the evening before my 60th birthday I was sitting morosely in my small studio flat, watching the 25th episode of the 3rd […]