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Month: July 2021

  • A nice day for a ride

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen the weather is good and there is no wind it makes sense to go for a bike ride. The roads were quiet for the most part but a few cars still passed too close and too fast. The challenge is to find the quietest, least dangerous route. I am still…

  • The Landscape

    The Landscape

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe view is not as good as sometimes. A few clouds but with the haze hiding the Alps today.

  • Grapes and Apples

    Grapes and Apples

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have seen combine harvesters at work over the last two days. Yesterday I saw them harvesting colza, and today I saw them harvesting wheat. At the moment you see grapes that are still in a juvenile state, and apples that look a little more mature, growing on their respective plants. When…

  • Relaxing Cows – The Right Crowd To Be With During A Pandemic

    Relaxing Cows – The Right Crowd To Be With During A Pandemic

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring a pandemic it makes sense to go to the mountains and it makes sense to walk where you have space to the left and right to keep social distancing. Today I saw the cows near St Cergue and they were all sitting and relaxing, chewing the cud, waiting for the tourist…

  • The Léman Rose by Seven Centimetres Overnight

    The Léman Rose by Seven Centimetres Overnight

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the weather system that we have had over Europe a lot of rain has fallen. So much rain has fallen that it has swollen rivers and flooded plenty of regions. In Switzerland, because almost everything is on a hill flooding might be noticed in some parts of certain cities, but in…

  • Rain and Water Tables

    Rain and Water Tables

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is an article on Swiss Radio and Television that discusses the positive impact that the flooding has had on the water tables. For several years not only have we had warm weather but we have also gone with very little or no rain for months at a time. During some weeks…

  • Switzerland: From Arid to Flooded

    Switzerland: From Arid to Flooded

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSwitzerland and Europe are currently experiencing flooding. All the major Swiss lakes are close to breaking their banks. A few weeks ago, you could read about how Switzerland had been so dry that it had started to register on the aridity index. Now it’s flooded. Some people are bored by the rain,…

  • WordPress Child Themes

    WordPress Child Themes

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor a while, I have been thinking about creating my own WordPress themes, but I didn’t know where to start or how many hours it would take. I always assumed that it would take many hours and that I would have to create templates, style sheets and more for a number…

  • The Pandemic Of Sisyphus

    The Pandemic Of Sisyphus

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are in a pandemic where the only disease vector is proximity to others, so in theory this is one of the easiest pandemics to overcome, and end. In practice people are like cats, and getting them to self-isolate is like herding cats. Paradoxically if people were as hard to herd as…

  • Ignored by Sunflowers

    Ignored by Sunflowers

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe title of this post is a joke, not a serious delusion of isolation. I saw that a few sunflowers had come out but that they were looking away, rather than towards me. They are looking at the morning sun and I was walking in the afternoon. They are still in the…