French Life-expat France

Following my enormous success with a earlier brief comments on politics in France - I am number one in Google for the expression ‘CPE strike’, which seems a bit excessive - I thought I had better turn my eye once again to politics.
I don’t want to return to the CPE problems, since the CPE has [...]

Despite the impression you will have from earlier cycling posts I have made, I do actually get on my bike reasonably often. Now that spring has arrived, and is almost immediately being pushed aside by summer, I am getting out more often.
During the week, when I have a chance, I go for a nice quiet [...]

Well, Easter has come and gone, and with it our trip to the seaside. Or was it a trip to the shops? Or perhaps a walking holiday? In the Boris family there are just four of us - me, Mrs B, teenager and pre-teenager so it should be easy to arrange a little holiday [...]

In the garden we have several fig trees. These are reasonably attractive, and one of them provides a good amount of shelter for the seating area of one of the holiday gites we have here. We also have an ancient orchard - peaches mainly, and a few apples, pears and nectarines. Doesn’t that sound nice? [...]

Mrs B continues to tell me interesting stories from the cinema - you recall perhaps that she works in the local flea-pit cinema as a volunteer a few times per month, selling ice-creams and shining her torch in the faces of over amorous young French couples. She doesn’t really do the second one, I just [...]

You will know from earlier posts that I am a born-again cyclist, and that me and my bike are kitted out like NASA Central so that I can monitor all aspects of my well-being as I cycle along - lung capacity, skin temperature, wind speed and so on. But there is one last aspect to [...]