Lovely trip. Wish I'd kept a highlights list. I often wish I wrote more things down so that's not new. Traveling home again was claustrophobic. I asked at check in, would the plane be full. His reply included 200something seats and 300-something passengers so, very. I'd the window seat that Rrrob prefers. Without him between me and the rest of ( Read more... )

Something like a year and a half ago I bought earrings shaped like cherries. I wore them perhaps twice or three times and gone. This happens fairly often but usually not to both earrings at once. I really liked them, reminded me of long hot summer days. Picking out just the perfect two or three cherry bunches and wearing them over my ears. I ( Read more... )

Ristorante Cantina ( Read more... )

I may still chicken out but perhaps I will try skiing again. Romana has offered to teach me, circumstances allowing. She'd do it now if I'd agree. Next year`s chance is subject to all the possibilities. She used to give ski lessons and she seems patient enough to be a good teacher. And she speaks English so I'd actually understand the instructions ( Read more... )

Rrrob and I are in a very tiny Swiss mountain village. There is, as far as I know, one publicly available internet computer. It is in the tourist office. Opening hours are minimal and include a two hour break for lunch. It also costs three dollars per quarter hour. So email and LJ are composed on my laptop and only transferred in batches. Email ( Read more... )

I was a little worried yesterday. Of the six people sharing this Swiss chalet three were visibly depressed at breakfast. Could be a somewhat grim week, with half the household unhappy and influencing the rest. Spending the day skiing seemed to help. The ones that went all came back smiling, glowing even. I'm sorry H didn't go, by dinner he ( Read more... )

Small, flat, grey, wet Ulvenhout ( Read more... )

new word

e·lide /ɪˈlaɪd/
-verb (used with object), e·lid·ed, e·lid·ing.
1. to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
2. to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over.
3. Law. to annul or quash.

For all the thousands of dollars of vehicle damages that seem to happen in Rrrob's general vicinity I find it comforting that the worst injury has only been a heavy scratch from an airbag cover sustained by him in 2003. Yesterday's series of tense conversations was highlighted and relieved by a couple thousand in damage to Rrrpapa's car. On loan ( Read more... )

Because I keep having to look it up in variously clumsy ways. I wish I could get my brain to agree to remember this ( Read more... )