Introducing... Dustin!
No, Dustin is not a new cat, nor any other animal. Neither is Dustin a lodger, or a guest or a new family member. Not a human one, anyway. But an
No, Dustin is not a new cat, nor any other animal. Neither is Dustin a lodger, or a guest or a new family member. Not a human one, anyway. But an
So it's over two years since the pandemic started. Case numbers are still fairly high in Cyprus, given that the population is not much more than a
January, as I described at length, was mostly taken up with Covid. Not that I had it seriously, thankfully, and Richard never did catch it. By the
Continuing the post I wrote ten days ago, about being ill, confusing test results and voluntary self-isolation. I was reassured by comments telling
On Monday January 3rd, we went to look for a new small upright freezer for our guest flat. There are several people booked to stay there over the
As has become a tradition, I'm writing a post on Christmas Eve to wish a very happy Christmas to anyone who might read this. I don't suppose I'll
An anonymous comment on this blog reminded me that I had not written here for some time. I was a little shocked to realise that it has been almost
I wrote in my last blog post about our complicated preparations for travelling to the UK this summer, with about ten days to do considerably more
We usually - in the pre-pandemic days - travelled to the UK at least once per year, sometimes twice. All our immediate family members live in England
The ground floor of our house is a separate flat - it was the house that was originally built on our plot, before the owners extended upwards. Since
It's a bit of a shock to realise that my last post was early in March. Time seems to expand and contract more randomly than usual in these
We have new curtains in our dining room. It sounds so simple. But somehow things are never quite as easy here as one might expect...Way back in
It's only three weeks since Christmas. That's easy enough to calculate, of course, but it feels like much, much longer. December - when we were still
I have written a post each year for the past decade on - or close to - Christmas Eve. So as Richard is currently carving the turkey, with the doors
Although Advent started on November 29th, I wasn't quite ready to start thinking about Christmas preparations until December started. Well - other