Barely four weeks into the new school term, and it's already the half-term break, gah. J is deeply mired in work until the end of the week, so that leaves me holding the fort alone for twelve straight hours while the children run riot at home. It's only the first day, and the place is a mess. Every time I pick something up off the floor, somewhere ( Read more... )

Accounting for my virtual disappearance from this journal ( Read more... )

Last night was a bit more dramatic than our usual mundane weeknight. We had done dinner, bath and book as usual and were just winding the kids down for bed when I heard a tapping sound coming from the living room. To my horror the tap-tap-tap was being made by the relentless dripping coming down from the ceiling. After six weeks of living with it, ( Read more... )

Quick quotidien update:

1. Our ceiling is still leaking, on and off. I can't believe it. We've emailed the regie (real estate agency that manages the property on behalf of the landlord) countless times, attaching photos of the growing damage each time. At least we're leaving an electronic trail to see when the problem began (September 22) and how ( Read more... )

Domestic short notes ( Read more... )

Now that summer is properly here (except for La Bise which has been blowing madly again!), the city is blooming with all sorts of events for everyone to enjoy. From strawberry picking to goat festivals (yes, really) to outdoor music festivals, most of the events are free or priced very affordably. The city council of Geneva has funded a series of ( Read more... )

Am too hot and lazy to write about our Basel trip, plus I'm also in the middle of painting my toenails now and my brain obviously cannot cope with the mental focus needed to paint and write at the same time, so here's some random post about the magnets in our kitchen. Along with our fridge, all the cabinet doors in our kitchen are magnetised, which ( Read more... )

For the second weekend in a row we have been in a different city - exciting, but tiring. Still, there's no better time to travel than now, with the hot weather and the long weekends ( Read more... )

Very early this morning, my family flew back home to Singapore. J sent them to the airport, and I remained behind with the sleeping children. In the past two weeks I had gotten used to having someone around to talk to at any time of the day (the kids don't count) and mostly enjoyed the hustle and bustle at home ( Read more... )

Today I finally decided to de-lurk from the Geneva Facebook group I'm in and participate in a discussion about neighbourhoods to live in. I knew the guy who began the thread because we see each other at our Tuesday playgroup so it was easier to just pop up and add my two cents. We'll probably have a more detailed discussion when we meet at ( Read more... )