Mrs B has received an offer from a local French teacher-friend, suggesting they help each other improve their language skills. Sounds good and sensible, except…the friend already talks very good English and has emphasised that the finer points of grammar are to be the area of focus.
Now Mrs B, like me (myself?) can speak and [...]

Once a year something terrible descends on our house. It lasts about four hours, moves around the hose with a terrible fury, making strange and startling noises and destroying everything in its wake.
It is a children’s birthday party.
There is one advantage of childrens parties in rural France. In the UK, birthday parties cost a fortune [...]