At the very beginning of yesterday’s blog posting I mentioned that I’d just had a couple of weeks holiday. The phrase “two week holiday” tends to make me think of fourteen days sun, sea and sand and a warm breeze gently rustling palm trees. My holiday wasn’t quite like that, considerable amounts of time were spent tending the barbecue, pottering about in the garden and generally having a lazy time. But as relaxing as it was at home, we decided to take advantage of the good weather and made a short excursion over the alps.


