Today was my day to help with school lunches at my son’s school in the Zürich old town. I go in a few times a year and as the little helper I’m responsible for buying and prepping the salads, making the salad dressing, then serving and helping with clearing up. You’d think I would hate […]

Today is my day. It’s all been a bit of a stretch. We had my son’s confirmation today with all the ensuing hullabaloo and last night when I should have been sewing my EPP I was actually on the garage floor wrestling with the wheels on my car and putting the winter snow wheels on […]

Well I bet that caught your attention! It certainly caught mine! Yesterday I happened to look at the list of search terms that people had used to find my blog. Middle-aged nude plain ladies? Sorry? Have I missed something? Have I EVER written a post about middle-aged plain ladies? I mean, in my sleep? Did […]

This is probably the week when it all falls apart. It’s my busiest week of the year workwise (although that’s always a bit of a moving feast and difficult to predict). Critical deadlines for two of my biggest clients have come together. Everyone is running late…except as the editor/proofreader I don’t get to do late…I […]

I guess a lot of you probably already know that I’m in the Stitch Tease Bee….which it has to be said is a very secretive bee….the end products of all our sneaky stitching can only be revealed next year when each lucky bee member will receive a finished quilt top made by the others. I’m […]