Ahem Residents of the Appenzell Innerrboden canton of Switzerland voted overwhelmingly in their last open-air annual assembly to ban nude hiking. Naked hikers have become […]
Ahem The Ferrette Morris Dancers danced at the village market in Oberwil, performing in the Cotswold Morris tradition, and Peter the Squire, a good friend […]
Ahem I wouldn’t call it Thelma and Louise exactly, but it was kinda cool as a filmic road trip narrative. True, we were actually middle […]
Ahem, We have spent much of the month closing in on a house just across the border in France, in the village of Leymen, where […]
Ahem Continuing snow, freezing winds, sludge and ice remind us that the Swiss are far happier in cold and wintry conditions; it’s what the country […]
Ahem Just as soon as December began, I had a funny feeling that it was all going to end in Christmas. The winter market stalls […]
Ahem There was celebration on a huge scale at the announcement of the new American President, delirious convivial manifestations, riotous assemblies and a dancing frenzy […]
Ahem For two weeks of this month Jessie spent some very high quality time in South Africa on a school trip. Amongst the many valuable […]
Ahem So there we were, chatting to a neighbour who had just dropped by, when an odd scratchy-scrabbling sound emerged from the radiator behind the […]
Ahem At La Hune this year it was a hotter, sunnier and bluer-sky holiday than for many years. The ageing swimming pool took the strain […]