With apologies to those who follow our Twitter feed, and/or the whole damn Book Of The Face thing, here’s a well-belated digest of our drive back down from Poland to Bulgaria, more or less, as it appeared, more or less, in stuff you’ve already seen, more or less.

We made the Bulgarian border around midmorning and [...]

This post is something of a revival of a long-defunct feature on this site: the Money shot. It’s also emblematic of the extreme changes in my uses of discretionary time that have resulted from our move to Sofia that the post comes a half-year after the trip that generated it. Believe me when I say [...]

Me: Hey, check out this cool free thing I downloaded for my phone. It’s just a stopwatch, but it looks really cool. Watch: [00.00.00]
Magda: And? [00.02.15]
Me: AND? Doesn’t it look great? Look, you just touch anywhere to stop or start it again. [00.04.43]
Magda: (touches to stop) [00.04.47]
Magda: (touches to start) [00.04.53]
Magda: (touches to stop) [00.05.58]
Magda: [...]

A year ago today we were sitting at this same kitchen table at Magda’s parents’ house and preparing to pack up to return to Nova Gorica. Just behind that plan, though, was the London job fair we were booked into for the end of January, and with it the expectation that 2008 would be a [...]

In all the years I’ve lived here, I never quite figured out the topography of the ridge north of town until I walked up it on Saturday. I’m surprised and a bit embarrassed that it took us that long to make what turned out to be a very modest hike. Magda pointed out as we [...]

Aleksander had a brief meeting with a wasp yesterday that ended rather badly. I have a zero-tolerance wasp policy, but I am a big fan of the honeybee and her works. Here we have an example of the preternaturally industrious Carniolan Grey beavering away for the benefit of her human masters.

As I was lying face-down [...]

It has come to my attention that I may have to have my face removed. Fortunately, Aleksander has long been preparing me for this eventuality. We have a game we play of an evening, a little game we call “Face…Off”. Aleksander comes waddling over with a big grin on his face, and I then remove [...]

Tonight at midnight Slovenia will become a Schengen nation. This means we will not need our passports anymore to go grocery shopping. The event seems worthy of writing a proper post about, but I am a bit busy tying up loose ends before the Christmas holidays, so suffice it to say that being able to [...]