Happy Easter to my infrequent readers and RSS subscribers! I’m happily stuck in the countryside and am enjoying some rare days with my family (and my dissertation, which is moving slowly towards the 10k word threshold!). In other news here: My dad has “harvested” a couple of acres of forest recently, the mare next door is about to give birth to a foal very soon, our cat has been joined by another one recently, and there are loads of cranes this year making lots of noise. The warm winter made them stay here instead of flying towards Spain.

Here some nightly impressions of my life in the village (40-odd inhabitants):