Ahem, It’s been a Football World Cup month, and therefore a danger once again to hear far too much of the ruined popular song from […]
Ahem Our daughter Ella and her partner Sam have become engaged to be married, after over ten years together. They met at university in Loughborough […]
Ahem The month featured a lot of wind-sweeping wettish rain, streaming curtain-sleeves large and long. However, at the start of the month, haunting traces of […]
Ahem The month started with a family visit to Southampton to watch cricket in its new and popular form of the Hundred at the Agea […]
Ahem Laurie, my father-in-law, died just a week ago. He was a close friend before he became my father-in-law as we were in neighbouring offices […]
Ahem The weather this past month has been ridiculous even by English standards, a confusing farrago of passive aggression and bipolarity. For several days it […]
Ahem, La Hune, our long-neglected house in south west France, was my location and work-place for most of the month. Plotting a non-motorway course due […]
Ahem Ant and Susanne, the magnificent Miles from Luxembourg, arrived at Broad Oaks on their bi-annual work detail on a long list of repair and […]
Ahem Our dogs have not been well. Both Bonnie and Max have suffered from stomach trouble, but Bonnie stopped eating and drinking and her temperature […]