Category Archives: Personal

April

On the first day of April, well before dawn, I stood outside in the cold air (hello autumn!) throwing generous handfuls of little chocolate eggs across the lawn. Our own little Easter Bunny woke up a short while later with the words “eggs, eggs, need to go, where is the basket!!!”. I don’t know how many […]

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Verona

As soon as we crossed the border on a sunny September morning there was no mistake that we were no longer in Switzerland. The highway traffic was everything we thought Italian traffic would be, and more. We were driving past Milan surrounded by crowds of trucks from seemingly every single country on the European continent, […]

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Summer

Back at the end of October, after a brutal winter and a six week trip to Europe (and the time it took us to get over that jet lag) I took Daniel to the beach for the first time in months. And as I sat on the sand and marvelled at the sight of him […]

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