Well, we got a little bit of snow yesterday- only about two centimetres deep, but enough that the children were out desperately trying to slip and slide down the field on a bin-bag and a dustbin lid. Meanwhile only 100 kilometres from here away they got 20 centimetres which is much more impressive. And ours [...]
I had an enjoyable bike ride with one of my cycling friends yesterday, and as so often learned something that I didn’t want to learn.
The south-west of France has a long tradition of good food and wine and healthy hearty living, and the area is positively overflowing with tasty mushrooms, fine cheese and great wine. [...]
I thought I’d try and attract your attention with a hard-hitting headline this week. The drug problem I’m referring to is widespread in France, expensive and dangerous. And completely legal.
My youngest daughter had a cold that wouldn’t go away so eventually Mrs B carted her off to the doctors. They emerged exhausted and hungry two [...]
With enormous pleasure we have now discarded all the Christmas decorations, lobbed the tree out of the door, and greeted in the New Year. We’ve also chucked all the Christmas cards in the fire, along with the addresses that we will spend half of next December searching for.
2007. Wow, when I was young I thought [...]
