Writing about whatever comes to mind

What started as a simple WordPress blog chronicling the renovation of a flat in Budapest has grown legs.
I had no plan for it, other than to keep interested parties around the world informed of what I was up to. My postage budget had been diverted to paint and time was in short supply; blogging seemed an efficient way to stay in touch.
Thirteen years later, it is an intrinsic part of what I do. I write about life in Hungary, the country in which I finally got to unpack my bottom drawer.
I write about my travels, about music, food, spirituality, politics, life, death, cemeteries. I write about whatever comes to mind. There is no plan.
If you’ve just found me, welcome to a work in progress. Feel free to engage, to comment, to add to what I’ve written. Let’s chat.
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My most recent posts

2025 Grateful 43: Thoughts from someone’s hospital bed
Each day, I wake up and wonder if my news feed will tell me that the Pope is dead. Were I to believe the Prophecy

2025 Grateful 44: Coming last
I’ve come in last for three days in a row and I’m delighted. Dead chuffed. So proud of myself. And I know mam would be

2025 Grateful 45: Goodbye, my lovely
Nan was the first woman I met when I got to Alaska many lifetimes ago. My bestie Lori and I had driven the Alaskan-Canadian Highway

2025 Grateful 46: Trough
I’ve had this notebook since 2001. That’s quite a while. I used it briefly in 2002 and again in 2003 when I wrote a list