in search of the kiwi

Winter solstice, and the weather is beautiful.  Cold and crisp but warm enough to work in a T shirt in the sunshine, especially if there is...

Percy is due for his MOT, so I’m heading back to the UK for a bit.  I booked the trip ages ago, thinking that I would have been well a...

There may be silence here for a while as there is no electricity, or phone connection, no WIFI   Do nothing for the evening.......

ten days in and I find myself unexpectedly in an internet cafe, having read loads of comments on my last post asking how I am getting on, so...

And then to Nic’s for a week, more of a catch up visit and to see how he’s getting on with the various projects that he has on the go.  I ...

I know, I know, it’s been over a month since I last wrote and I am starting to get emails from close friends checking that I am OK.  Yes, ...

The snow remained pretty much everywhere from that morning on.  I left later that day for a week in the UK, fully prepared to return to a ...

I returned to Francoise and Vincent in Pau for an autumnal week.  It was great to see them again and I was welcomed like a good friend.  A...

Biarritz has been a fairly topic of conversation when beaches and surfing has been mentioned in the past, so as I was passing closer t...