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Random comments on Christmas in our household:
Unfortunately Mrs B was right - Pere Noel did not pop a plasma widescreen TV down my chimney this year. Bit of a shame really because I wanted to watch High School Musical in super-screen mega-colour but what can you do? I have taken to wandering aimlessly around the [...]

Our first Christmas for many years without any family visiting is rapidly approaching, so it’ll be interesting to see how that goes. Will we all enjoy endless rounds of monopoly and card games, christmas crackers and turkey? Hmm I wouldn’t bet on it yet but we’ll find out soon enough.
I expect in reality the children [...]

When winter arrives we all tend to shut ourselves up inside for a couple of months. This does mean there is a bit less excitement to report here in the blog. Excitement being a relative term for our rural outpost in southern France, where someone crossing the road without looking both ways first counts as [...]

Apparently we have just had the warmest autumn since 1950 in southern France, which has been pleasant for all concerned. Except the oil and gas companies, who have presumably been sat there hoping the phone will ring with an order, instead of the normal deluge of calls they get in October and November. (Yes, we [...]