Yearly Recap

The 2025 Yearly Recap: Changes

31/12/202504/04/2026 La Fête du Spardos, Le Tanksgeeving, Our Travels, Photos, Sausage & the Smoo, Visits, Yearly Recap

Change can be exciting. Change can be scary. Change can bring about improvements. Change can also bring about sorrow. Since the last entry, we have gained and we have lost.

The 2024 Yearly Recap: Darkness Descends

31/12/202404/04/2026 Our Travels, Photos, Yearly Recap

So it turns out my theory about shit years occurring triennially was incorrect. After an interminably wet winter, 2024 began with equal wretchedlness: nothing but rain, day after sodden day. ... Read more

The 2023 Yearly Recap

31/12/202301/02/2026 Our Travels, Photos, Yearly Recap

It’s not really accurate to call this a pandemic year, given the WHO declared in May that covid was no longer a global health emergency. So this is just a ... Read more

The Pandemic Years Recap Part III: 2022

31/12/202201/02/2026 Our Travels, Photos, Socialising, The Pandemic Years, Visits, Yearly Recap

2022 saw the removal of nearly all covid restrictions and the reopening of international borders. The global economy however was still in tatters, with massive inflation and supply chain issues ... Read more

The Pandemic Years Recap Part II: 2021

31/12/202101/02/2026 Birthdays, Our Travels, Photos, The Pandemic Years, Yearly Recap

So 2021 begins with the rollout of the covid vaccine. At first offered to the elderly and most at risk, by spring it was opened up to all to combat ... Read more

The Pandemic Years Recap Part I: Death to 2020

31/12/202001/02/2026 Photos, The Pandemic Years, Yearly Recap

The neglected Frog Blog has fallen into a state of torpor, and the prospect of doing something about it has become increasingly daunting as time passes. Although the miserable experience ... Read more