Welcome to my blog @thewater…

I’m originally from Ireland and grew up right beside the sea. I now live in land-locked Switzerland so this might help explain why my site is called ‘The Water’. I chose the domain name after I was at the University in Lausanne and had visited Corbusier’s Villa ‘Le Lac’, the house which he built for his parents on the shore of Lake Geneva in a village called Corseaux, near Vevey.

It’s said that Corbusier’s buildings are living machines. I would add that they are also seeing machines. I kept going back to visit and was completely taken by the play of light, the reflection of sun and moon-light on the ceilings and floors of the building. When I came home I claimed the domain ‘The Water’ for my own…

(Photo A.Butz)

Water is a precious commodity and was the subject of one of my earliest pieces of writing which I hope to get around to posting sometime.

This site is based on things that are dear to me… I will sporadically post articles on, or links to whatever I find interesting at that particular moment in time – so don’t be surprised to find subject matter that has absolutely nothing to do with water, except in that it strikes a chord within and thus leads me back to my own inner ‘source’.

Enjoy and do leave a comment or link – great to meet you here.

Frances

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‘Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that.
Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

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Above photo: Courtesy of Andreas Butz

All other photos, unless otherwise mentioned, taken by me

The photo below was taken at my sister’s wedding in Scotland when I was ten…

@Rose and Richard's wedding in Scotland

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4 Comments

  • I’m so glad to have stumbled across your blog, Frances. I had no idea it was there. I’ve been a fan of your husband’s gardening page in the Natürlich for many years, and have long been curious about the mention of his irish wife! I too am a Frances, though not Irish. We have recently moved to a new home here in Zizers (Rheintal near Chur), and I now have the priviledge of being able to reinvent the garden here. So now it’s high time I buy The Lazy Gardener – which is what I was looking up when I found your blog.
    I look forward to reading more and hopefully meeting you one day. I have also long wanted to visit your gardens in Appenzell, it’s just never worked out til now.
    Enjoy the spring, best regards
    Frances

  • Hi Francis,
    what a luck meeting you in the café Koller last Friday morning. Thanks for your contact data and link to your blog. I like your poems very much. By the way , weren’t you wearing your rabbit’s paw around your neck last Friday? There was something nice and fluffy aroun your neck.🤗 Best regards, Jitka Keel

  • PS: Sorry Frances for the incorrect spelling of your name 🥰

  • Hello Jitka,
    I’m afraid I wasn’t wearing my rabbit’s paw when we met last week – that was just a little something else, but just as precious to me – as it was given to me by my youngest daughter when she was only nine (and already had such good taste…).
    thanks for leaving a comment here and happy that you enjoy my little poems – will add another one here soon.

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