autumn update

Hi all, November! Where has the autumn gone? It is a beautiful season as well as a busy season. Weekdays are swallowed up by things domestic and school routines (plus residual physio and medical appointments from the accident – soon to thankfully taper off). Weekends have been largely given to outings, hikes, seasonal festivals and…

cows in bonnets!

Hello all, September 23 was the first official day of autumn. In Switzerland, autumn means many things – folk festivals, harvest, morning mists, pumpkin soup, wild game and spaetzle in the restaurants, and socially acceptable fondue-eating (eating fondue prior to autumn is for tourists and people who are too crass to know better – according…