The Imposing Poppy On the first day of this year, we sat down to discuss how we would celebrate my son’s 50th birthday in...
Fireworks to Celebrate Today, the 1st of August, is the Swiss national holiday, when the nation gathers together for festive brunches and an annual...
A Woman’s World Early in the 20th century, a group of women in the UK fought a feisty campaign against all odds, to try...
Bethany, My Gestating Blackbird In June of last year, I wrote about an immature magpie who aborted his useless, half-baked nest in a nearby...
What does EASTER mean today? Growing up in England, we used to celebrate Easter as a three-day period of mixed emotions. In Sunday school...
Siegfried the Seagull Siegfried the seagull sat on the sandSurveying the sea that was close at handA swarm of associates gathered aroundTo see if...
We Enjoy Freedom Now January’s been and gone, much to our huge reliefAnd taken Klaus Schwab with it, or at least that’s our beliefHis...
We Live in Interesting Times Christmas is now history and we have today commuted into 2023 with some degree of trepidation – that’s to...
The Squeaky Wheel Syndrome Many years ago, as I returned to Zurich Airport from my former home in Ibiza, I wheeled my one-year-old son...