W-wa Jeziorki

Grim blows from the west the remains of Storm Ciara (renamed 'Sabina' in Poland for some reason); wave after wave of dark clouds pro...

The night of the 9th to the 10th of February 1940 defined the rest of my mother's life, just as the outbreak of Warsaw Uprising would fo...

Always good to get out of town for a while, take the train down to Chynów and spend some time on the działka. The train has got more expensi...

Many friends are away, going away or just back from holidays - I must say I have no temptation to rush off to warm countries to get away fro...

How good is good ? When I, as a native English speaker and trained journalist, experienced proof-reader and copywriter/editor look at some a...

The country of my birth, the country in which I was raised and educated, the country in which I started my career, has just performed the mo...

First snow of the season, heavy and wet. First snow of the season at the end of January. Since starting this blog in 2007, there have been f...

I know little of the north; not much of the south, and far less of the east. "From the Mile End Road to the Matchsticks, Becontree,...