Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
This was shamelessly stolen from what a friend of mine posted on Facebook – I have no idea who created it. I raise my hat to the unknown creator. Love it!! Enjoy your Saturday…and please keep your fingers crossed for the safe return of my camera, which hasn’t shown up yet! Helen
The face of things to come?
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Growing up with a Swiss father and an English mother, my children have always been fairly multi-cultural, but sometimes the overlapping traditions cause all sorts of confusion. Christmas is a case in point. Here in German-speaking Switzerland Santa Claus – locally known as Samichlaus – arrives on December 6th. He is generally accompanied by a […]
Multi-culti Christmastime
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Today Daughter No.1 and I finally got our advent candle decoration made. Better late than never I say. We didn’t make it in time for the first Sunday of Advent, but at least we just sneaked in before December 1st. If you’d like to see how we make it, then there are instructions here. Several […]
Advent
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
I love quiet days at home. Days when I work on my translations and editing and in between can take breaks to potter, catch up with housework and admin, maybe play the piano a little and get the feeling that life is more or less under control – even if that only lasts until the […]
Back down to earth
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
I’m back. Did you miss me? I had a weekend flit to England to help my mother with her Christmas shopping and to check that all was well on the home front (it was, thankfully!). I had intended to check in along the way and let you know what I was up to, but my […]
Enough of gallivanting!
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