Blog in France

I’m giving you plenty of warning so you can psych yourselves up for this. World Naked Gardening Day is in three weeks’ time on Saturday 14 May – the same day as the Eurovision Song Contest. The latter a big event in our house, well, at least for the female...

I had a computer crisis during the week. Thunderbird, my email program, suddenly stopped working. Chris patiently spent an afternoon sorting the problem out, and in the end installed a new program, Opera, instead. Opera happily uploaded the 30,000 emails in my archives. 30,000?!? I couldn’t believe it. Now, there...

It’s noisy here these days. The birds are in full song now that spring is here. And it’s wonderful. All night long the nightjars (or possibly nightingales) are singing. It’s so weird to hear beautiful birdsong in the pitch black of night. Whenever I get up at night, which is...

School holidays again – which means a lot of shopping. Groan. Since my two teens stay at lycée from Monday to Friday during term time (strikes permitting!), and Rors has four-course school dinners so doesn’t want much in the evenings, I only really have to shop for me and Chris...

Making vanilla ice-cream Caiti’s birthday ice-cream maker is proving to be a great success. She’s already on the third batch of ice-cream and she’s only had it 24 hours! It’s very impressive. It’s a Phillips HR2304 ice-cream maker, to be technical. (What does the HR stand for, one wonders?) It...