Last year approximately 100,000 tons of grain was used to make biological fueI. I love the colour green, but I love a fresh loaf of bread more. 1 Swiss Frank per day, per person. Worldwide at least a billion people must live on this amount. That hardly pays for basic food. The price for grain [...]
“The Battle of Bern” was the heading on half of the front page of a Swiss Sunday newspaper today. The other half was taken up with how a “Music Star ” described his 24 hours in prison after running amok and driving a large black Mercedes into the entrance hall of the head offices of [...]
To all my new friends and readers who might have toppled over my blog in the last months, and wonder what has happened to Diamonds and Rust just as she was going through a phase of literary fluency I would like to say I’m back again. No I didn’t go on holiday,or start on my [...]
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 [...]
“I want to be alone” Greta Garbo 1905-1990 Grand Hotel. Film Do other people have this problem,wanting to be alone. Is it a modern day thing,by modern I mean after Garbo?In the Bible, God says in the book of Genesis; “It’s not good that man should be alone” It is good for me,I like my [...]
We have an old traditional concert hall in Zürich, standing under national trust of course. Since the begin of the present season the hall boasts 1400 new red chairs at a cost of 845 000 Swiss Francs, being paid for by the local tax payers. Wonderfull. Some people might have found other uses for the [...]
Why is it that I am never up behind a slow driver if I’m not in a hurry, but sure as eggs are eggs if I havn’t a minute to spare they will be out there waiting for me to catch up with them. The elderly men wearing hats and smoking cigars, little ladies in [...]
Should I dare admit that mostly I long for it all to be over again so we can all get back to normal. Not that I don’t endear the Nativity stories of The Gospels, especially that of St Luke,but where does it get me when on my search of a happy Christmas I might squeeze [...]
We are forever building roads in Switzerland. Wonderfull roads, feats of Swiss civil engineering, hewn through our granite mountains,costing us billions of Swiss Francs and sometimes lives. Not that we necessarily need them,but the trucks of north, south, east and west Europe do- so that potatoes grown in the Netherlands can be taken to the [...]
