I'll let this foggy photo from Sunday morning represent two different things.  First, the fact that over the past week the inside of m...

    Photo edited in "HDR-ish" mode in Picasa3.  After a couple of weeks of the weather staying cold, windy and dry, but without th...

Dear Diary, I'm still in the grip of the Cold, and reality still feels a bit blurry.  Yesterday I might possibly have managed to pass th...

  The cold incubation period is the time from catching a cold virus to the first symptoms, typically 1 to 3 days, though it can range from...

  As no snow plough appeared in my immediate neighbourhood on New Year's Day, the wet snow we had then just froze; and since then the te...

Yesterday was my 7th ‘Blogoversary’, can you believe it?! It was on 5th January 2009 that I created my first blog, entitled The Island of t...

“An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears lik...

In Sweden (and some other European countries) we have a tradition at Easter to take in branches of birch and decorate them with colourful fe...

We’ve been having COLD weather here lately! For ABC Wednesday - C