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Switzerland: Then & Now

February 22, 2025

Switzerland: Then & Now When I first came to Switzerland on a visit in 1969, there was a population of 5.5 million, 89% of...

Adoption Blog Yesteryear

Adoption: Ensuing Relationships

November 1, 2023
Adoption parents

Adoption: Ensuing Relationships There are casualties of the system, and today I still bear the aching scars of the bleaker side of this process....

Blog Idiosyncracies Yesteryear

Destiny – The Twist of Fate

September 1, 2019
destiny hamburg leukaemia

As a recently-divorced, single mother of my 9-year old son Stefan, my world was shattered one day in 1982, by a piece of news...

Adoption Blog Idiosyncracies Yesteryear

Recycling the Soul

July 1, 2019
cause and effect languages leukaemia recycling the soul

Many years ago, at nine years of age, my son was fighting a particularly aggressive form of Leukaemia, when he frequently asked me, if...

Adoption Blog Yesteryear

Adoption: The Grandad

May 1, 2019
#adoption grandfather Paedophile

At ten days old, I was adopted into a family of strict Baptists, Elsie the mother, Frank the father, John my adoptive brother, nearly...

Blog Idiosyncracies Politics Yesteryear

To BREXIT or not to BREXIT!

April 1, 2019
brexit egypt eu Nigel Farage

Nearly three years ago, the majority of British voters, chose to leave the European Union. The fact that they never voted to join it,...

Blog Idiosyncracies Yesteryear

In Loving Memory

February 1, 2019
graves soil swiss funerals

Leading up to «All Saints’ Day», where people go to the graves of their dearly departed and spruce them up, I came across a...

Animals Blog Idiosyncracies Yesteryear

The Murky Turkey

December 1, 2018
christmas family turkey

‘Tis nearly time to rejoice again in Yuletide festivities and frolics, as relished in times of old, when one was more readily excited about...

Animals Blog Poem Yesteryear

Minding the Pooch

November 1, 2018
dog minding the pooch Poem

Peanut is a mini-pooch – in fact she’s microscopic A fluffy little bundle and an energising topic You have to toss a titbit so...

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