Blog in France

Uh oh. Schools are getting demanding these days. Ruadhri brought home the dossier d’inscription for collège (secondary school), which he’ll be starting in September, and apparently Chris and I need to get divorced by 20th June. That wasn’t on my to-do list! I’m really quite fond of my husband of...

La Borie flats Not weather wise, at least not in Creuse, but summer has begun since Benj has broken up. Already! I collected him from Limoges yesterday. It took us seven trips with assorted bags and boxes to the car a good ten minutes’ stagger away, and we’d already brought...

I’m on my knees after an incredibly busy day, and full of cold so just two quick photos for you today. First up a pretty golden dragonfly of some sort by the big lake: And second up, Refrigerator Kitty aka Gigi. She’s taken to sleeping on top of the fridge....

It’s the allergy season. Poor Caiti and Chris are sniffling and snuffling away and chomping anti-histamines. Mind you, the freezing gale force winds we have today should disperse the allergens nicely, at least for a while. (We have a roaring fire in the grate today too. You wouldn’t think it...

I’ve mentioned the defibrillator outside the Boussac branch of Credit Agricole before, thoughtfully put there for the days when you call in and discover either just how high your bank charges are or how low your balance is, or possibly both! There’s another defibrillator in Nouzerines, attached to the outer...