People have begun to wonder. If we’ve moved yet. If we’ve arrived in Sofia. If so, how things are there. If we’re alive. If we have internet. If there are dogs sleeping under cars here at all. We’ve been extremely busy during the last several weeks, but I’ll take a few minutes to put some [...]

Magda is peering at the enormous road map of Europe.
“Hey! We could take a ferry from Trieste to Durrës…”
“Albania?”
“Yeah, and then we could drive through Albania and Macedonia!”
[Googles, rethinks]…

Some regular visitors to this site will have already heard this news via other vectors, but our time in Slovenia is coming to a close.

For the last [...]

And what an appealing title it is.

Since making an impulse buy in the Ljubljana Apple shop back in July, I have been using a silicone iSkin keyboard pad. Despite my initial abhorrence of it (to torture an analogy, it at first felt like typing in the shower while wearing a raincoat), I have grown extremely [...]

So, one serious bite on the Round One‘s shoulder, several minor scratches on the Long One, one safe landing in the sea due to a certain tippy chair, two trips by ferry and lots of octopus in and out of their digestive system later, WE ARE BACK HOME.
The two in the picture, too, despite the [...]

Local blog celebrity Michael Manske recently posted on MetaFilter a link to our parenting “advice”. This caused a stegosaurus-shaped traffic spike and also brought the humorless out in droves, which is always fun. Assuming the spike is over and there are no residual new viewers, let me state for the record that So you’ve gone [...]

As my sister reminds me, “it is an honor just to be nominated”, and while that is certainly trite it is also true. I have long been a great admirer of the writing and twisted humor to be found at The Glory of Carniola, so it was especially pleasing to learn that it was Michael [...]