Lockdown, loo roll and Louis Armstrong…
If you were feeling the energy (or reading the news), you probably knew that the lockdown was coming. And if you didn’t, no doubt you could read the situation from the pillaged supermarket shelves in the weeks running up to it. People have been religiously stockpiling...
Lost in translation…
I first came to Switzerland, not for love, unusually — well at least not initially — but instead to learn the local language. I’d just graduated from university and was deciding what to do next with my life. Foreign languages had always intrigued me, and I knew...
A different vibe…
Yesterday, I was watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills , where they were dissecting events and each other in the season finale (please don’t judge me!). Yolanda was being accused by another Real Housewife of being standoff-ish, upon which Brandi rushed to...
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ABOUT me
Hi there! And welcome to Desperate Swisswife. I’m a working mother, blogger, writer, and philosophising entrepreneuer. I’m also a Swisswife – that means that I’m married to a Swiss guy (that’s him next to me in the photo) – and I’m a Brit who often grapples with the “housewife” mentality rife in Switzerland. That’s why I started the Desperate Swisswife blog. If you can relate, then read along…