Ahem The beginning of the month found us all in very bad shape, and even yours truly rather unusually succumbed and had to take time off from work on account of not being able to walk without falling over. The whole family caught the bubonic plage from each other and then it came around again […]
Author Archives: Lionel Stanbrook
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PEAGE PINTXOS BANISTER: May 2026
Ahem, I travelled down to La Hune with Jurrat and Jessie in a well-loaded car [...]
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MUSKETS SHRIFT RAPT: April 2026
Ahem Alli and I were up and early on Good Friday to be driven with [...]
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The hidden past of the bisexual pronoun Those of all political and cultural persuasions [...]
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BABY FAIRYLAND TWITTEN: March 2026
Ahem I was about to open a pile of birthday cards when I was encouraged [...]
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QUOTIDIAN HAMMERHEAD HIPPO: February 2026
Ahem Rain and colder weather in southern England dominated the first few days of the [...]
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Ahem We’ve been ice-skating quite a lot, and mostly since just before Christmas. The whole family has got into it and every now and again we go to the ice-skating rink in town and disport ourselves. The girls are starting to skate very well. Jessie and Ella are even confident in doing so. I am […]
Ahem. I bring news of my latest bicycle accident. It was about three weeks ago. It was dark, stormy and raining again but I was cycling well and comfortably on the cheap but cheerful and relatively new bike that I had brought over from England (the one that had thrown me over the handlebars on […]
Ahem I had another crash on the bike, well, a minor but abrupt fall as I cycled onto the pavement, the ridge of which was too big for the speed at which I was going. As I got up from the pavement (no injuries) I gave a cheery thumbs-up to a worried looking car driver […]
Ahem I have finished Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights, the first book in a trilogy for teenagers, which has a huge amount of creativity and readability and is a lot better and more meaningful than Harry Potter. I have also accepted that the summer is over, and stowed away most of my t shirts and shorts. […]
Ahem We are only now coming to the end of the drawn-out hassle of moving in. It is a slow but occasionally satisfying process of stops and starts, twists and turns, square pegs and round holes. When we got back after a nightmare 12-hour journey to Basel from our house in France in early August […]
Dear Jessie Well now let me see……….. It’s quite confusing for me at the moment but I am slowly beginning to “feel” my way around, with the help of Ruth from the Basel Welcome Committee. There is a very different way of working here and it is makes quite a change from what I am […]