Greetings from Mykanos. I am sitting here, on the veranda outside the bedroom, looking across the palms and bougainvillea, past the towering guadua undulating in the morning breeze, at the neighbour’s house, which is currently being further enhanced by another bungalow. Like us, he has been in uninterrupted residence for almost a year and seems […]
Greetings from Mykanos. Apologies for another hiatus in communication. It’s been yet another day, another week, another month in lockdown and everything seems to merge into a continuous cycle of possibilities and postponements. We were due to end in mid August, until the most recent prolongation extended it to mid September. Whither from then? Who […]
Greetings from Mykanos. It has been a while since my last Letter, and this one was to be done in May, but then May sort of flowed from April and blended into June, and well, you know how this state of suspended animation called ‘lockdown’ operates. Originally, lockdown started here on March 25 and was due […]
Greetings from Mykanos. I’ve been asked about our animals, so I thought a report from the home front might not go astray… Many of you might find this very boring as it is mostly about dogs, with some plants thrown in. Over the years however, with a few notable exceptions such as Mac in London […]
Greetings from Mykanos. It’s very lush and green here at the moment, the result of a lot of rain. It has rained almost every day and now it’s time for some sun to get the coffee cherries ready for the cosecha, which will start in September. Mykanos’ location, right in the middle of the tropics, […]
Greetings from Bogotá. I am here on a sabbatical of sorts, taking a short break from the farm and spending a solitary sojourn in the city. It’s good to have a change of scenery after all the doings and drama of Christmas and New Year, and as much as I would like Adriano to be […]
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