A Disorderly Retirement
I am doing yet another of my 30-day French challenges in my vain attempt to understand spoken French. This one’s great, though – it’s all about Christmas. Many of our traditions overlap, but it surprised me to learn that they don’t really have much in the way of Christmas films or music. Although the English-speaking…
I know that winter is not universally popular. People in frosty northern places often welcome the first snow, but after a few months of freezing temperatures, slippery sidewalks, icy windscreens and piles of dirty snowbanks at the side of the road, winter starts to lose its appeal. In southern England it’s the rain we dread….
I‘ve just come back from a week in Italy. I went to visit a Canadian friend who was spending two months there. I hadn’t seen her since before the pandemic and I love Italy, so it was a perfect opportunity to spend time with an old friend in a beautiful country. Things don’t always go…