There’s only one more Sunday before Christmas. Preparations are coming along nicely, now that I’ve actually made it out of bed again. Today is for decorating, baking Christmas Guetzli, getting on with Christmas knitting and secret sewing presents (no photos yet – sorry!). It’s pouring with rain outside, as it has for the last couple […]

I’m still here – a bit quiet (my server was down yesterday), but as I’m still in bed fighting the nasty virus, there probably wouldn’t have been much of an edifying nature to report anyway. The achievement of my week has been briefly feeling well enough yesterday to stagger to the butcher’s and order the […]

(Today I’m linking in with Blog in France’s Christmas Blog Hop…you might want to hop over there and have a look at some of the other links) When I came to Switzerland over 20 years ago (gulp! Can it really be that long?), I casually assumed that having lived in the UK and the US, […]

I should NEVER, NEVER, NEVER have opened my big mouth and said that Christmas preparations were ticking along nicely here on the hill. Please tell me not to do that again… Of course, you’ve guessed it, the lurgy has struck. I think I have the flu. It certainly feels like the flu. My head hurts, […]

Over the years I’ve spent a lot of Christmases run ragged and not able to enjoy anything because I’ve been so tired that I could barely stand up. When the children were smaller I tried to make Christmas into a completely magical experience from start to finish. I put the tree up and decorated when […]