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...