Blog in France

Dyspraxique Mais Fantastique is the name of a support group I’ve recently joined. It’s taken us eleven and a half years but we’ve finally discovered that Rors is dyspraxic. I hadn’t even heard of dyspraxia before, and quite possibly you hadn’t either. Here’s a definition: Developmental dyspraxia is a chronic...

Grrrr. I had a bad time with tendonitis in my right shoulder during November and December but a course of anti-inflammatories seemed to sort it out over Christmas. However, a spot of light wrestling with a hay bale two days ago has brought it back. Darn. I don’t like feeling...

It’s Pièces Jaunes time of year again. Ruadhri’s tirelire (moneybox) arrived in the post yesterday, the day the project launched this year, with his Mon Quotidien. We’ll all put our annoying bits of change into it over the next few weeks and turn it in to the post office before...

The Galette des Rois (French Epiphany frangipane pie containing hidden fèves i.e. ceramic charms) has been eaten and the kids are back studying. The Christmas holidays are well and truly over now. France, however, remains largely Christmassy as there never seems to be a hurry to take the decorations down....

An end-of-holiday walk, and unusually without geocaching involved, took us to Évaux les Bains, Creuse’s only spa town. This is rather odd little town, more like an extra-large sprawling village with a very incongruous casino stuck at one edge of it. We were headed a few miles out of it....