I would really like my wardrobe to look like this…. but if I’m honest, it’s actually more like this…. In my quest for simplicity and order I’ve been tidying up my wardrobe, putting winter clothes to one side and bringing the summer ones to the fore. It ended up being a rather scary undertaking. How […]

Yesterday I celebrated 20 years in Switzerland! It almost seems impossible that I can possibly have been here so long. I came here in 1991 with my Swiss fiancé (who I married a few years later). We had met while working as accountants for KPMG in San Francisco and at the end of our contracts […]

I’ve been quite sad this week, looking out of my window watching the beautiful, elegant villa behind our house being demolished. I imagine it was built in the 1950’s or 1960’s, but the design was so attractive that it hadn’t dated at all really. It has the most beautiful manicured gardens and I could have […]

Today I had a project booked in to work on which has been delayed. Garden work and paying work have been keeping me pretty busy recently, so the house has been more than a bit neglected, and if I’m honest the chaos was starting to get me down. I’m not a super-tidy housewife type and […]

Yesterday I finished the first of my purple socks – here it is: Retro Rib Sock in Forest from the Green Mountain Spinnery. I love it – even though it does seem a little mad knitting woolly socks when the temperature outside is so high. I guess that’s addiction for you…..sigh…. I have a thing […]