Quote of the week No. 41

Another sunny autumn day - early mists followed by azure skies topping off tasteful autumn colours. Temperatures still in the high teens.

The woodland floors are damp and musty, and scattered with fat, shiny, sweet chestnuts - at five euros a kilo in the supermarket, I'm training the children to load their pockets with the fattest and the shiniest every day.

Talking of whom, I see that Eric Hoffer agrees with me...

"Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love." 

It's good to have B-B back! 

Quote of the week No. 25 : Love thy neighbour...

Bright, but after yesterday evening's storm, it's close-the-doors windy. And there's a very handsome stray hunting dog lying disconsolate at my side as I work, waiting to be reunited with his chums (who, in his absence, have managed to bag a 100-kilo wild boar this morning not too far from Carmine...).


Eric Hoffer, (1902-1983), American writer and philosopher :

"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves..."

Quote of the week No. 7 : Meaningless affairs

One degree at 9am. There's snow on the ground still. A day of variety : first it snows, then it rains and then it hails.


Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), American writer and philosopher, nicknamed the 'longshoreman philosopher'.

"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business."

And people living in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.