Tag: Switzerland
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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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#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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Springtime in #Switzerland #SilentSunday (almost)…
I took these photos late last month. Remember in Anne of Green Gables, how Matthew goes to the station to collect – he thinks – an orphan boy to work on the farm? He finds Anne, and on the way home they drive along an avenue arched over by fruit trees in bloom, which Anne,…
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Cable ties and floor cloths, or: How to fix your washing machine… #householdtips
It’s something every woman (and man) dreads. Your previously law-abiding washing machine starts misbehaving… Instead of softly churning the washing around, supplying a reassuring background burr to daily life chez vous, it now sounds like a fireworks party out of control. And it’s scary. Exactly this happened in my flat just recently. Sometime around New…
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#SilentSunday in #Switzerland…
Some pics from the past week or so:
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The year that was… 2021
Well. We started the year with high hopes, but as far as the pandemic was concerned, 2021 was just another day at the office. So today, there are more empty places at the table, more friends marked by the disease, more discord in daily life than I ever remember. And that’s before you even start…
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Almost #SilentSunday…
Having revisited the trees I photographed in September and October, I’ve decided not to continue with the series. I guess I picked the wrong trees for pictureque November photos… Instead, here are some definitely pretty pics of autumn in Switzerland: Next week, we’re having writer Terri Nixon and her choice of classic comfort reads –…
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September trees… #SilentSunday
The trees are just beginning to turn… I took some almost-autumn tree pics this week, and weather permitting, I’ll do some October pics with the same trees next month. Next week, we’re having A.J. Griffiths-Jones, with her choice of classic comfort reads – see you then!
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Sand Sculpture Festival
A couple of kilometres up Lake Constance from here lies Rorschach, a small town with a harbour and a lovely lakeside park. They’ve had an international sandsculpture festival there ever since 1999, the year of the big solar eclipse, when this sculpture was the winner. It’s now immortalised in stone in the lake park. This…
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The #WritingLife, and summer in Switzerland…
It hasn’t been one of those glorious sunshiney summers here in N.E. Switzerland. We’ve had good days, bad days and downright disgusting days. Our lake is very high, but thankfully we escaped the worst of the flooding other parts of Europe had. I’ll do a scenic photo post another time, but for today, here’s a…
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