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Friday PHotograph2 comments

merewoman wrote 2 weeks ago: On the bird table this morning … more →

Tags: France, wildlife, snow, Blue Tit

Oh for the wisdom of Solomon5 comments

merewoman wrote 1 month ago: This morning I went to the local post office to send off three packets. It’s a tiny narrow pla … more →

Tags: France, Post office, Wisdom of Solomon, mentally handicapped

T-d-c du mois10 comments

merewoman wrote 1 month ago: Despite tales of French rudeness, I have found it very, very unusual indeed. Our experience since li … more →

Tags: France, French, French SIM card, Mobile Phone, rude French people, useless salesman

No way Moway5 comments

merewoman wrote 1 month ago: I wish everybody would pronounce Moët correctly.  It’s Mo-wett.  The two little tittles indica … more →

Tags: language, French, french language, France, Food and Drink, champagne, Tittle, Moet, Moët et Chandon

Links2 comments

merewoman wrote 1 month ago: There are a few changes on my links “Stuff I Like”. I have deleted a few sites have been … more →

Tags: France, Blogging, France and the Unknown blogspot, French Blogs, Doris Brazil, French Leave

Quoi de neuf?3 comments

merewoman wrote 1 month ago: Three news items have briefly held my notoriously poor attention span over the last few days. 1.     … more →

Tags: France, In The News, tony musulin, Nicolas Sarkozy, Berlin Wall, bank heist, Bank Robber, triple murder

Farewell3 comments

merewoman wrote 3 months ago: On Sunday morning the swallows were massing in our garden. They looked more like a swarm of locusts … more →

Tags: France, wildlife, autumn, End of Summer, swallows migrating

Climate change

merewoman wrote 4 months ago: 7.00 am today – 6º Centigrade/42.8º Fahrenheit. 3.30 pm today – 34º Centigrade/95º Fahre … more →

Tags: France, heatwave, temperature variation

One of the many things I love so much about France3 comments

merewoman wrote 4 months ago: This morning while I was in a small store in a nearby village, a small boy about six or seven years … more →

Tags: France, french children, Courtesy, good manners

Things that go clack, fizz, erk and yikes in the night9 comments

merewoman wrote 5 months ago: It is midnight. From the far distance comes the faint murmur of motorway traffic, and from closer, t … more →

Tags: Travel, health, wildlife, spiders, Camping, Gastro, Aqua-Fresh Iso-active foaming toothpaste, bleeding gums

Canine camping2 comments

merewoman wrote 5 months ago: After our previous highly successful inaugural camping trip with the dogs – normally known as … more →

Tags: Travel, France, Family, Hungarian Vizsla, dog-friendly campsite, limousin, La Souterraine

The End10 comments

merewoman wrote 5 months ago: Two teeny words, six little letters, which have seemed so elusive for so long. So out into the big, … more →

Tags: Travel, France, writing, Literary World, Marne valley, published authors, literary agents

Bloody hell1 comment

merewoman wrote 5 months ago: Talking about blood here. We Brits are banned from giving it in France because we are full of mad co … more →

Tags: french language, France, Blogging, cjd, mad cow disease, blood donors, Don du sang, collecte du sang

The Nudity Clinic3 comments

merewoman wrote 6 months ago: Readers who were dismayed or shocked by the lack of privacy offered to customers in French banks had … more →

Tags: France, health, X-Rays, French Health Service, Nudity, Vive la Difference!

The Zone of Confidentiality4 comments

merewoman wrote 6 months ago: We are just back after a flying overnight visit to some special English friends who live in a beauti … more →

Tags: Travel, France, french banks, overheard conversations

People do the strangest things5 comments

merewoman wrote 6 months ago: And that includes us, and our nearest neighbours. On a bright sunny morning last week, we did it for … more →

Tags: France, Septic Tank, fosse septique

A Day at the Mosquee - (Couscous & Hammams Too!)

Kristin wrote 6 months ago: With all the dreary headlines in the news about the West, Islam, Muslims in France, and related topi … more →

Tags: Europa, Parigot, manger, Acheter, Visiter, affordable, affordable dining, Restaurant, 5th arrondissement

7th Heaven? A Stroll Around a Great Parisian Neighborhood

Kristin wrote 6 months ago: Paris’ 7th arrondissement is home to impressive government buildings and embassies, loads of i … more →

Tags: Europa, Parigot, Visiter, Itinerary, Paris, Restaurants, 7th arrondissement, affordable, Cafés

Yes, yes - but not me3 comments

merewoman wrote 7 months ago: Yesterday we saw a cat lying beside the road, looking dead. TOH went to check it and found that it w … more →

Tags: animal welfare, France


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