Greetings from Bogotá. If the last letter was mainly about animals, this one is definitely about people. We have just had a delightful visitation, long in the planning and even longer in the hopeful expectation of its manifestation. The two couples in question were Fran & Jones, British Aussies who now live in Costa Rica, […]
Greetings from Mykanos. Or maybe it should be ‘Greetings from Animal Farm’. We don’t have any pigs here, although we do at Rancho Grande, but we are awash in avian inhabitants including geese, turkeys, ducks, guinea fowl and chickens, quite apart from the huge number of colourful birds that nest and live in the surrounding […]
Greetings from Bogotá. It has been a long time, I know, since I last accosted you with my musings and I must apologise for what undoubtedly looked like laxity. I haven’t forgotten you or been overly idle but have been grafting away at my book, ‘Passion, Pleasure and Peril: Learning to grow coffee, and live, […]
Greetings from Mykanos and, although it is now very old news, Happy New Year. It has been a busy Festive Season what with Christmas, New Year, the Carnaval del Diablo in Riosucio, the crowning of Miss Universe and the inauguration of Donald Trump. Interesting mix when you think about it: commemorating the arrival of the […]
Greetings from Mykanos. No I haven’t forgotten you and I hope you haven’t forgotten me. It has been a while however. I have been meaning to write for some time but must admit that we have been slightly distracted by travel and projects. The travel included time in Madrid and London and some bits of […]
Greetings from London. Yes it’s true. I have forsaken the Bush for a bit to visit two of my Godchildren, help the lovely Caroline if she needs any assistance promoting “Was Gabo An Irishman”, continue to wonder what to do with my book “Letters From Colombia; the pleasures and peril of learning to grow coffee”, remind […]
Greetings from Mykanos As I write this I am looking at a grand vista that now encompasses our garden. The fence that previously enclosed our house, huertas (vegetable gardens) and outside entertainment area has been pushed back, on one side, to the top of the ridge that forms the lip of the basin in which […]
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 […]
Greetings from Bogotá. Yet again there has been a sizeable gap between updates, so I hope you have enjoyed your respite from my attempts at aggravated asinine alliteration. We certainly enjoyed the gap, as we have been entertaining some eagerly anticipated visitors and we were not disappointed. As foretold in my last Letter, much-treasured friend […]
Greetings from Mykanos. Adriano tells me that August hereabouts has traditionally being the month for flying kites. Why? Because it tends to be windier than average. This is borne out by August being well and truly hurricane season in the Caribbean. Witness the death and destruction caused recently to the island of Dominica by tropical […]
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