Year: 2024

The sun is out so it was time to walk and explore, and in so doing I have amassed all I need from nature to wish you all a very merry Xmas. Thank you for reading Mezze Moments. Out with the old … In with the new… And here is Santa in the sky on…

Daily visits to the Supermarket where I meet other harried souls. We fill our bags and take them home, stuff them into some part of the fridge, hoping we remember where and why, and get on with the day’s prep. We all want smooth operations, like the song says, but we often end up with…

Chavannes, that Shopping centre of all things Swiss has changed. I stand corrected. Meeting friends for lunch there, to my surprise, they were offering doner kebab and Middle Eastern lunches. Clearly menus evolve, albeit slowly, to meet the expectations of their new groups of visitors and residents. And, yes, there were roadworks from Coppet to…

A strangely comforting place of open spaces, farmed fields, unpopulated and unchanging. I walk down the same paths of the village we lived in and nothing has moved. Hardly anything new has been built, though there are some extensions to the local school. No high rises, no trash, no major road changes. Clipped hedges, tidy…

And here it is – a napping Kookaburra. It arrives and sits a while and then gradually with the warming sun his beak drops and hits the balustrade and there he naps contently and safely. It’s such a heartwarming photo I had to share it with you all. Summer is coming. The temperatures are rising…

We visited the Museum of Sydney while in Sydney and saw representations of all the 11 ships that made their way to Botany Bay back in 1787. I had never quite appreciated their numbers, their cargos and their passengers as I did seeing the ships listed with their contents in this Museum. On 5 August…

That’s their nickname because they are partial to a bin or two. White Ibises are native to Oz and have adapted very well to city life. Partly, it has to be said, because their natural habitats of marshes and wetlands are shrinking. You might think I was in the country when I took these photos…

In our street we had a fair few children and each year they would dress up and head up and down the street with their parents trick or treating. I would occasionally trick them into eating a slice of orange before handing out the sweets but I went along with their enjoyment of it and…

Four items in the news this week for me were astounding. 1.They diagnosed scurvy in a patient in Western Australia in the 21st Century! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-23/scurvy-case-detected-western-australia/104503318 2.In Nevada in the last election 14,000 voters went to the polls and voted for “None of the Above”. While this may seem like a protest vote what on earth…