Sunday Morning Breakfast in Switzerland wouldn’t be the same without Zopf. Fresh Plait, or Zopf as we say , thickly spread with Emmentaler butter and home made jam is a feast for the Gods. It’s easy to make and a hundred times better than any mass produced supermarket product. Beginners might find the plaiting a [...]
Yesterday a 12 year old boy was killed while skiing with his parents outside a marked ski run! It happened in the well known Parsenn area,near Klosters in Switzerland. How sad for the loss of a young life, how sad that people who don’t understand the mountains can’t take the advice of people who do. [...]
Yesterday was Kobis’ Birthday. No that’s not quite true, his Birthday was actually on Monday the 19th, but he celebrated it yesterday because his Agenda was already full. It was a special Birthday for him and we felt honoured to be invited. You see Kobi is our neighbour and he is now one year old. [...]
I got my first introduction to the joys of skiing outside of Charring Cross station in London. Invariably one doesn’t live next door to a ski lift so it means transporting whatever you may need with you, and believe me you are going to need a lot. On that cold February morning I was waiting [...]
It’s not that I’m against fast food,sometimes I’ve been very glad of it. But I do have a hate of Macdonalds, especially when I see one in the middle of the finest cities of Europe, not to mention the rest of the world. They usually blend so well with the architecture. What is worse is [...]
Once a week I give English chatting lessons to two young boys aged nine and eleven. They are most definitely boys and usually find it difficult to sit and make polite conversation when they would rather be out playing football. I am of course profiting too.I now know all the books of Harry Potter plus [...]
We painted outside again yesterday.No ants this time, no wind. Perfect conditions for painting,except that the sun kept hiding behind clouds which made it difficult for me as a beginner to decide what colours I wanted. He had chosen an idyllic pond for us to paint. We could chose what view of it we wanted [...]
Wanted to scream yesterday as I read that British Doctors on the Board of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence advise partial removal of the stomach on very overweight children. The Institute has now published guidelines to help with the problem of obesity in the land. No other country in Europe has such [...]
The question was ‘did I know what happened to Jessica?’ Who’s Jessica you’re asking? Jessica was a bald, hard headed addition to our family, where she came from I’m not sure anymore but I surmise she had British kapok in her unruly body for a certain liking of travel must have been there,for travel she [...]
