by cmadmin | Feb 26, 2023 | Blog
Even if it seems like it will never end, winter doesn’t last forever. The first harbingers of spring still arrive with a very welcome sense of regularity I was cradling a cup of tea in my hands, letting the heat penetrate into them, when I couldn’t ignore that...
by cmadmin | Jan 8, 2023 | Blog, Sketches
Can a third-generation Bertie Wooster get out of his impending marriage to Penny Dreadful? Only Jeeves, great-great-nephew of the original famous Jeeves, can save the day THERE WAS NO TIME TO LOSE. “Jeeves!” I called out. “Jeeves!” “Sir?” He was in the front sitting...
by cmadmin | Jan 1, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
How can we stay positive as we anxiously enter an uncertain 2023? NEW YEAR’S EVE this year – or rather, last year, or yesterday – was spent in the company of friends in the village in southwest France. It was a convivial occasion during which I drank far too...
by cmadmin | Jul 28, 2022 | Blog
You are now entering Bussière-Badil in southwestern France. Not everything is what it seems, or what you expect, in Bussière-Badil, well off the beaten track in France. But what can you expect from a village that has been on the maps since 768 CE? When I open the...
by cmadmin | Feb 27, 2022 | Blog
In the face of the rapid escalation of the war in the Ukraine, tens of thousands come together in Berlin to protest for peace People at the anti-war demonstration near Berlin’s Brandenburger Tor express their opinion of Putin’s aggression. Photograph:...