A while ago someone asked “If you were to live in a book, what would it be?” I immediately thought of the book in which I would most NOT want to live:  “Room.”   Emma Donoghue’s novel “Room” is … Continue reading →

    Kevin Pearce is an internationally famous snowboarder who was critically injured when he struck his head above the eyes on the edge of the pipe during a halfpipe training run on New Year’s Eve 2009 in Park City, … Continue reading →

                          On November 1st 1986, Himself and myself fell in love, in a helicopter out over the County Cork coast.   He was the hands-on producer of a … Continue reading →

Their head bones connected to their iPhones Their ear phones connected to their iPhones, Their neck bones connected to their iPhones Their shoulder bones connected to their iPhones Their arm bones connected to their iPhones Their hand bones connected to … Continue reading →

We live at 480 metres. At 9 pm on January 13th it was -1.5C outside. We have some electric underfloor heating downstairs, but no central heating upstairs or in the house generally.  Today, we did not light our wood-burning stove … Continue reading →

Driving through Switzerland last week I saw my very first Tannenbaum mit lichtern of the season outside a motorway restaurant in Neiderbipp.  The lights were red, the sky was blue, the tree – and the Alps – were green. Well, … Continue reading →

  The tiny church was packed to the rafters (I know, I was up under the rafters.)  “Hush” said the Stage Manager “and if you’re very good, there’ll be sweets after the interval.”  The talking, movement, pew scraping and the … Continue reading →

Listen, big boy, Now that I’ve got you made, Goodness, but I’m afraid, Something’s going to happen to you……   Grenoble is the capital of the Départament of Isere and of the French Alps, and the second most important city … Continue reading →

I am deeply lonesick for snow in New York ….which is different to ‘homesick’ or ‘lovesick’ and yet, a little bit of both. At the end of October it is still warm and golden and we have not yet lit … Continue reading →

  It is Autumn.   Socks. Snow on the mountaintops, chestnuts, walnuts, pumpkin oil in carrot soup. A squirell’s cache in the pot of basil,…harvest the leaves before the stalks turn brown. Chrysanthemums in tiers, ready for the cemetery. Purple … Continue reading →