Tag: switzerland
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Of Blue Skies and Autumn Leaves
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we might as well speak of blue skies and autumn leaves because that is what we’re facing. The Septemper/Autumn grey clouds, fog, and cold are not here yet. Instead we have warm sunny days. The habit of walking one and a half hours a day is perfectly safe, with such a…
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Of Beets, Columns of Black Smoke and Finished Books
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you walk around at the moment you see that they have cut corn, sunflowers and beet. You also see that there are piles of beet in fields, queues of tractors waiting to send them on a train journey and more. Agriculture is busy at the moment. This morning I heard quite…
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The Curse of The Electric Light Bulb
Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you ever considered how nice it would be to wake up when the sun comes up, and to end the day when the sun goes down? In summer the days would be long and filled with memories. In winter we would head to sleep when the sun sets. Every day we…
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With A view of the Mont Blanc
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m afraid to open the veluxes because of the threat of finding yet another large spider. I don’t mind having to dispose of it, but I hate the idea of having one walking around without me knowing. A great alternative to open windows is to go for your daily walk. You’re far…
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Ninety Five Days of Blogging In A Row
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have managed to neutralise the inner censors. I have accomplished ninety five days of blogging in a row, once again. During the first 100+ days of the pandemic I did the same. At the time I thought that this would provide a document of how life was for the pandemic. The…
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A Walk While Downloading Files by FTP
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt the moment I study seven days a week without fail. Today I was learning about “Coding Your Own WordPress Custom Post Types”. I think this will be interesting because you can create a new section to a website, or if not a section then at least a collection of assets.…
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Broken Stones, Good Weather and Autumn
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday as I looked at the ground I saw broken stones. The one in the image below is especially beautiful. I don’t know why there were more broken stones than usual. It seems that the conditions were right to bring the stones to the surface and for the farmers’ machinery to break…
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I Don’t Need to Go For A One And a Half Hour Walk
Reading Time: < 1 minute”I don’t need to go for a one and a half hour walk. I said that to a neighbour before my walk. I could have cut it short, if it started to rain too heavily. Paradoxically for most of the walk it was grey and drizzling. Nothing to worry about. I…
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A River Runs Dry, Wood builds a Natural Dam and Corn Grows Eratically.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen rain becomes a treat you get used to looking at rivers that are running drier and drier with every passing day. The river pictured below is so low that you see the river bed in many parts. It’s a meter or more below it’s usual level. Imagine being a weather forecaster…
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Good Cycling Weather
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite people doing what they can to keep the pandemic going, by not vaccinating, by not wearing masks, by not minimising social interactions, by avoiding busy shops we are in a 3000 new people infected per day routine in Switzerland. For some reason, fatalists and others have taken the decision that the…