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A walk in Swiss woods… #travel (almost) #SilentSunday
After all the rain we’ve had recently, it was good to have some sunshine last week. I thought I’d walk through the woods and see how the beaver dams (there are three) were getting on. I tried to go on to the second dam, but it was so wet and muddy underfoot I gave up,…
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Jane Cable
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. As third book in each post, we’ll have one by the writer. This week, we…
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Sunshine in Switzerland… #SilentSunday #travel
Water… a weekend walk to the lake. It makes such a difference where the sun is – the two last photos were taken less than a minute apart, but looking in different directions.
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#Wildlife in Switzerland… #nature #birds
Our flat here in N.E. Switzerland is metres away from a belt of woodland. In winter, the view to the north is tall tree trunks with Lake Constance and Germany beyond, and in summer we have peaceful shades of leafiness on the other side of the balcony railing. One effect of this is we get…
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#amwriting in a heatwave… #summer ’22
It’s been hottish, these past few weeks. I’ve often wished my ‘writing cave’ was a real cave, deep in a windswept cliff, perhaps, with lovely cold water running down the walls and bats flapping in and out. Or maybe not. I have two very different writing projects on the go at the moment. Think black…
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Summer in Switzerland, and the fire next door… #SilentSunday(almost) #travel
A few photos of two of the trips I took this summer. (More to follow later in the month.) Over the lake to Friedrichshafen in Germany. Click on the pics to see the uncropped version: A walk around the Gubsensee reservoir in canton St Gallen: For dramatic effects, though, we didn’t have to look further…
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Clare Chase
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. As third book in each post, we’ll have one by the writer. This week, we…
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#SilentSunday in #Switzerland #travel
Summer streets in St Gallen… Next week, we have crime writer Clare Chase and her choice of classic comfort books – see you then!
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Terry Tyler
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. As third book in each post, we’ll have one by the writer. This week, we…
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Out and about in #Switzerland #travel
Summer has arrived in N.E. Switzerland – at least it’s here for the moment; next week looks slightly iffier. Last Sunday was also museum day in our town, so as both sons were visiting, off we set to see a couple. We walked into town the long way, by the lake. You can tell which…
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