Monthly Archives: June 2012

Aden’s surprise


Next week I will be, gasp, gulp, sigh, sob… FORTY!!! Don’t be wishing me a ‘Happy Birthday’, yet. Germans consider birthday wishes before the actual day to be bad luck. I’m not particularly superstitious. Though I don’t walk under ladders … Continue reading

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The Health Notice


In recent years I’ve been diagnosed as ‘possible Crohn’s’ to ‘probable Crohn’s’ to ‘perhaps Crohn’s’ to ‘positively Crohn’s’. It’s been a somewhat winding road and, I think, in some ways that hasn’t been a bad thing. At first, I was … Continue reading

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