sullomeoApr 24, 20204 minThe End of the PAThe village public address system has fallen silent. There used to be twice-weekly announcements over the PA telling of shop opening times,
sullomeoApr 3, 20195 minBuild and BilledThe man who was making our new garden door phoned. He would deliver it tomorrow, mid-morning. He duly turned up at 6.30.
sullomeoJan 18, 20194 minWolves in the SnowThe wolves appeared last summer. It’s the first pack in Bélý for as long as anyone can remember.
sullomeoOct 19, 20184 minOne-way ticket, destination unknownI’m sitting on a bench at the top terrace of the garden, with Fido beside me, his nose as restless as a class of ten year olds seconds befor
sullomeoMay 8, 20184 minOf Mice and ZenWith snow piling up in the attic, a frozen loo, holes in the wall wide enough to admit a decent sized bear, it was a proper winter.
sullomeoFeb 12, 20183 minOut in the ColdBorn with a plastic spoon rather than a silver one, I’d not had the opportunity before to see how easy it is to spend a huge amount of money
sullomeoNov 30, 20175 minCommunal Living and Fighting Fire FightersMagda finished what the rain had started, knocking down the soggy internal walls and removing what remained of the mud and straw ceiling.
sullomeoNov 8, 20175 minBack to SchoolWith no internet in our damp, crumbling ruin-cum-home, I had to look for an office. The end result was a large room in Jan and Theo’s school
sullomeoOct 31, 20173 minHow to Destroy a HouseWhen the roofers finally moved in, the moody, wet summer had turned into an even moodier, positively flooded autumn.
sullomeoOct 22, 20174 minBurning the WitchesAs you know, April 30th is the day when the winter goddess surrenders to the advancing year and allows the summer goddess to take over...
sullomeoOct 20, 20177 minSignature of AlienThere were six doors leading off the forbidding corridor in the annex, a concrete bunker that acted as a grey communist foil to the Austro-H
sullomeoOct 15, 20175 minCzexitIt’s shocking how bad sheep are at making good sheep noises. The ones waking me up at 5am on the morning after our arrival in Czechia were t
sullomeoJul 3, 20174 minAdventures with a bad backI spent the first half of the morning at a physiotherapist’s surgery. At least, I think I did. Even now, just a few hours later, it seems li
sullomeoJun 5, 20173 minFirst impressionsMagda’s uncle George told us that if the lights by a rail crossing are white, the line is all clear. If two red lights are showing, it means
sullomeoApr 3, 20174 min4.14 am, 23 June 2016We’d toyed with the idea of relocating to the Czech Republic for years. Ever since we sold our seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time holiday h