wrote 2 weeks ago: On the bird table this morning … more →
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 →
wrote 1 month ago: Despite tales of French rudeness, I have found it very, very unusual indeed. Our experience since li … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I wish everybody would pronounce Moët correctly. It’s Mo-wett. The two little tittles indica … more →
wrote 1 month ago: There are a few changes on my links “Stuff I Like”. I have deleted a few sites have been … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Three news items have briefly held my notoriously poor attention span over the last few days. 1. … more →
wrote 3 months ago: On Sunday morning the swallows were massing in our garden. They looked more like a swarm of locusts … more →
wrote 4 months ago: 7.00 am today – 6º Centigrade/42.8º Fahrenheit. 3.30 pm today – 34º Centigrade/95º Fahre … more →
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 →
wrote 5 months ago: It is midnight. From the far distance comes the faint murmur of motorway traffic, and from closer, t … more →
wrote 5 months ago: After our previous highly successful inaugural camping trip with the dogs – normally known as … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Two teeny words, six little letters, which have seemed so elusive for so long. So out into the big, … more →
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 →
wrote 6 months ago: Readers who were dismayed or shocked by the lack of privacy offered to customers in French banks had … more →
wrote 6 months ago: We are just back after a flying overnight visit to some special English friends who live in a beauti … more →
wrote 6 months ago: And that includes us, and our nearest neighbours. On a bright sunny morning last week, we did it for … more →
wrote 6 months ago: With all the dreary headlines in the news about the West, Islam, Muslims in France, and related topi … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Paris’ 7th arrondissement is home to impressive government buildings and embassies, loads of i … more →
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 →