Every year, we make a kind of pilgrimage back to a place we left 6 years ago: Colwyn Bay.

 We only lived there for 5 years, but the place has a ‘pull’ on us that we can never quite shake.…

This holiday has bought manyconnections with lots of friends. I’m really grateful about that. Much as I bang on about desiring some stability in income or settled accomodation what really gives me energy is connections and good friendships. I’ve…

…actually not strictly post holiday as thanks to the wonders of August and my leave year ending on the 31st, I’m off for nearly a week in a day or so. This blog may take a break, or my…

I am now back home….profoundly grateful for the luxury of a long holiday and surrounded by mounds of letters and e-mails and still feeling in holiday mode.

I am profoundly grateful to still be alive. A rather careless Belgian lorry…

I’ll make this the last one. The last thing anyone really needs is someone really rubbing their noses in it about a holiday.

My French is ‘poor’. Perhaps not as poor as the streotyped English person who thinks that the way…