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Archive for November, 2006

Birthday cake

My birthday came and went, as they do, with a quiet fanfare and a great big cake. Due to confusion over numbers, a result of advancing years I imagine, I had passed most of last year thinking I was 43, so it was a nice surprise on my birthday to realise I had ‘only’ been [...]

Five years is up

Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of our arrival in France, so today I’ll treat you to some recollections ‘from the olden days’. The day we arrived was not a pleasant one - Mrs B had twisted her neck and couldn’t move; it was blisteringly cold; and there was a howling gale blowing. We were also [...]

Places to visit in France

Ok I’m looking for help and suggestions today. Now I can assume that most people reading this have been to France, I guess? And probably plan to come again? Doubtless you had favourite places, and took photos and remember them fondly.
So what I am looking for is - what were (or are) your favourite places? [...]

Night on the town

We had ‘un repas bien arrossé’ yesterday - great phrase, don’t you think, arrosser is ‘to water’ (as in ‘watering the garden’) but ‘un repas bien arrossé’ is a meal washed down with plenty of wine etc.
Anyway, one of the local communes were having their annual village ‘moules frites‘ evening and some friends invited us [...]

First date

After years of worrying about our daughters’ potential boyfriends and future boyfriends, the problem is about to come to a head, but not in the way we expected.
Older daughter has a never ending stream of admirers, whispered phonecalls, giggly chats and so on, but apparently none of the contenders meet her demanding requirements. One particularly [...]

Belcastel and Conques

Well, we’ve finally had our few days away, to the great joy of Mrs B who frequently tells me there is more to life than staring at a computer screen. Anyway, I managed to cope with the withdrawal symptoms - I took a couple of computer programming books along to help - and funnily [...]