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 […]
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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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SCUDDED PROPRIETORIALLY TRIMMINGS: January 2026
Ahem, During this interminably long month of heaving weather, our far south-east corner, ancestral home [...]
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QUERYING PAKKELEG CONVULSED: December 2025
Ahem Our Christmas celebrations normally start after we celebrate Gwen’s birthday on the 12th, when [...]
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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 […]