30th December, 2019

I really don’t know where to start on this dark, rainy, thoroughly miserable day!  I’ve lost a week.  Christmas has been and gone.  Austria has been and gone.  Yes, Gluhwein was served daily but …  Rewind. Descending the steps of the plane a week ago, there was no...
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22nd December, 2019

‘I’ll never get over these curtains!’  That’s just me arriving back in ‘our’ rooms in the Weisses Rössl, St Wolfgang.  Nothing stays the same. Exhausted but excited, we left Edinburgh – courtesy of Jet2 – yesterday afternoon at the civilised time of 2.45pm, arriving...
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15th December, 2019

Probably best to avoid politics, on the whole, but this has been a momentous week and the nation has been taken captive, regardless.  The result, although definitive, has been, once more, divisive, both enraging and delighting.  Never one to renege on the opportunity...
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8th December, 2019

I love my bed!  Thing is, nightly, I have this aversion to getting into it.  Why is that?  Why is it that one is either a morning person or a night owl?  I think it is inherent; one’s body clock is programmed in the womb, perhaps, logically, by that of one’s mother. ...
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1st December, 2019

Friday night and the stress does not abate.  The fact that The BBC Election Debate is emanating from the television is serving only to exacerbate but the real source of my aggravation stems from a late email from my accountant – that, itself, sounds incongruous!  We...
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