There is much to be said about having an ordinary life. Ordinary in the sense of balanced, not disastrous, not crazy successful. Just one day at a time of comfortable normality. Days like today I work, exercise, do some housework, cook, shop, maybe even sew or knit a little. It’s undramatic. A pottering sort of […]

Left to my own devices I am a tidy person. I dream of no clutter, a house full of simple, elegant, useful things (In white and muted shades…). Days when I do not look around me  overwhelmed by the feeling of too much to do, too little time, sinking into the chaos. Serenity….peacefulness…calm….. Looking at […]

Every so often I need a day where nothing much is going on, just to get things under control and ticking along again….. Today is the day. So far I’ve…. 1. Gone to church, thereby killing two birds with one stone by simultaneously delivering a big bag of books for the book sale next month. […]

And the winner is…. (here there should be a nice picture of the random number generator thingy, but it doesn’t want to play ball, so please use your imagination!) And as you can see (er hum) number 11 wins…. So Mary Kay from Out and About in Paris, I’ll be emailing you and Lina Button […]

Today I’m taking part in something that’s new for me – an Expat Blog Hop – hosted by Steph over at Blog in France – you might want to check it out, there are all sorts of interesting articles being written today by people from well, all over! So here goes… Expat life in Switzerland…. […]