30-01-2015 An hour of melting snow Birds, low noise, melting snow and sunshine. A beautiful morning outside and in the Quiet Diary.      

25-02-2013 Wealth I spent October and November of 2012 in rural Zambia, and on returning was shocked at the enormous wealth in Western Europe. This becomes obvious when standing in a supermarket a 5pm. Mind you that every beep is an item being scanned and later sold.