In this life

A friend recently gave me a bunch of flowers with a weird assortment of lilies, gerberas and chrysanthemums, none of which really went wi...

We went up Rothorn on a rack railway from Brienz. Look at that turquoise water. It's so pretty. I don't understand why nobody eve...

1) The flowers! The Swiss are very good at their window boxes and other containers with flowers. If I have a tiny criticism, it's tha...

This is Basel. We were standing on the bridge over the Rhine, generally admiring the scene and particularly admiring the tiles on the c...

Well, you know what it's like. You spend a fortnight sitting on trains, looking idly at beautiful bits of Switzerland (well, actually...

We're nearly organised. The house is clean and tidy, the beds are made up for the visitors, the instructions are completed, there a...

This year we've been away an unusual number of times: visiting Daughter 2 in London, meeting up with the extended family in the Lake ...

The other week Daughter 2, Son, Daughter-in-Law, the grandchildren and I went to the Botanics. It was sunny but had been raining earlier....

Though York is a lovely town to wander around, there are also some wonderful gardens not too far away. A few years ago we went to Breezy ...

We came back from York on Thursday but since then things have been crazy busy and still are. The family were here at the weekend, which ...