It has been a very strange few weeks. I posted my last main blog message more than a week before Christmas when I got back from the Transhumance. On the Tuesday I was away, my father went into hospital for a day for tests because he had been complaining of being constipated. Something seems to [...]
Feb 032011
Feb 012011
As a son, one is in the privileged position of seeing aspects of a father, others don’t see. Aspects that may surprise people – after all, we all think we know people quite well and yet even I, as a son, probably know but a fraction of what my father was. At such a time [...]
Dec 042010
Ouch, what a cold wind. Even if it is from the South. We woke up this morning to a lack of cold water and my first thought was that the pipes were frozen – in the garage, the cold water is already frozen (and shut off). But apparently, there was a burst main in the [...]
Dec 032010
There was a sprinkling of snow again this morning but nothing significant. The wind has dropped out too which makes an enormous difference. However, it was still -10 when I went out around 11:00 this morning. But the thaw is about to set in – tomorrow should be a lot warmer and Sunday is set [...]
Dec 022010
It’s definitely time to tune up the colours of the blog – warm orange hues are not consumate with the current weather, so were back to the White Tiger and Cool Blue!
