Postcard from Bishkek

Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous country –and where there are mountains, there is almost inevitably snow.  Snow attracts more for all sorts of reasons.  As well as being aesthetically pleasing, and offering opportunities for taking beautiful photographs, snow attracts skiers, snowboards and the like.

Saturday was one of the few days in the year when you wouldn’t have found me in the office.  Well, that’s not quite true -  I arrived, as usual, at six o’clock and spent three hours going through the emails and some of the routine weekend tasks … but at nine o’clock I abandoned the [...]

One of the fund raising events which I really enjoyed when I was a schoolteacher, back in the UK, was the annual Quiz Evening organized by the Parents’ Association.