Blog in France

Ruadhri is eleven today. I know – my baby! So hooray, party time. Not quite. Poor Rors woke up with a sore throat and temperature so stayed off school, laid out on the sofa at first although he picked up during the day. He was able to put away an...

Today was a snail fair at nearby Betête. Chris, Rors, Benj and I hopped on our bikes and set off to investigate. It has to be said it was a bit thin on snails. There was actually just one snail stall with only a few live snails on it but...

We have another unplanned huarizo. Diarmuid arrived yesterday. First-time mum Victoria quietly got on with things when we weren’t around.  Late afternoon, I noticed a pair of dark ears sticking up above the Berlin Wall which didn’t look like Fionn’s, our other baby’s. So I went to investigate – and...

I have just returned from a baptism. A windturbine’s baptism, no less! I’ve blogged about our local éoliennes several times. We have nine relatively near us in and around Bussière St Georges and St Marien. We can see a couple of them from the garden in the distance. Anyway, we’re...

It’s the sixth anniversary of us buying Les Fragnes today. Already! We’ve come a long way since then but there’s still plenty left to do and I can’t see life becoming dull in the immediate future. Here’s my account of the momentous day from Heads Above Water, my book about...