Us drawn by neice and nephew - nephew has just turned 18, happy birthday!

International Book Day

this beauty came into the world

first translation, into Polish :)

International Book Day

Happy Easter

2026 - S Korea

2025 - S Korea

owl-no-more

Laura Partin

StripesHoopsDotsSpots of the day.

Angine de Poitrine

Babele

@ Sorina Vazelina

more about this Romanian tradition here

Mărţişor

2026, Busan

2025, Jeju

2024, Sapporo

Year of the Horse

Our respective national poets, celebrated 10 days apart, lived 100 years apart: and it Burns, Burns, Burns!

But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,

In proving foresight may be vain:

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men

          Gang aft agley,

An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,

          For promis’d joy!

(cca. 1786)

This year's dicovery: Auld Lang Syne = times long past