If it rhymes with orange…
The heights charm us but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There’s a very short word […]
Category Archives: This small corner of Wales
Lost again
Little by little, one travels far JRR Tolkein If you want to know something the first thing you should do, of course, is ask the right question. When I worked […]
Wales: Britain’s Hidden Corner of Bilingualism
Originally posted on The Memrise Blog:
Tucked away in the corner of the UK, one of the world’s most monolingual countries, you’ll find a beacon of bilingualism for the rest…
Over the hill?
A couple of weeks ago I blew a gasket. Yes, me…I’m much mellower now than I used to be but occasionally I see or hear something that ignites my dormant […]
Who, when, where?
Last summer we decided to have a fence built atop part of our garden wall, to give us some privacy from occasional passers-by. Not that we’d mind if they did […]
Mud and Merlot
The two worst months of the year have come and gone – not that they were that bad here, this time around. We haven’t suffered from too much rain, and […]
A turn of phrase
A little while ago I was lounging on the sofa minding my own business and half-listening to the evening weather forecast on BBC Wales when I heard the presenter (Behnaz […]
Not such a common cold
When Lizzie was very young every minor illness (thank God there were no major ones) was accompanied by a little…drama, shall we say. I won’t embarrass her here by regaling […]
Sounds of the season
The boiler has broken down. As I write I’m half-buried beneath a blanket with my laptop on my knees. Mr B’s on the other sofa with a blanket of his […]
Wintry Wales
Snow came to the Usk Valley this week – though only on the hilltops, which is probably a good thing. We disagree about snow in our house; I love it and Mr […]
at home in the hills 