Blog in France

How was your weekend? Ours was busy as usual with a few extra fun things. Ruadhri found a four-headed worm in the worm bin. He was thrilled! Caiti is keeping Lambo fit and possibly also training him up for the Olympics. He loves to canter alongside when she’s on her...

Caiti came home buzzing yesterday. “Did you hear about that nasty article about Guéret?” she asked. Since we hadn’t, Caiti filled us in. A Parisian arty magazine, Technikart, has slammed Creuse as a whole, and its principal town, Guéret, in particular in a vehemently unpleasant and rude article. One of...

Ruadhrí starts at collège (secondary school) in September and the paperwork is already arriving. I filled in something a few weeks ago – I think it was his official acceptance form. Now I have the catchily named ‘Fiche de Liaison en Vue de l’Affectation en 6ème dans un Collège Public...

Ten days ago 62-year-old Jean-Yves Brochard set off on his own Tour de France – by tractor. And no ordinary tractor, but a vintage Vierzon tractor that he has specially repainted for the trip. Jean-Yves will be covering 5,500 km mainly keeping along the French borders at an average speed...

Despite our contribution with Lambo, his psychotic mother and his auntie, the number of sheep in Limousin is falling as a whole. In 2011 there were 360,000 sheep shared between 1,700 farms. Ten years previously there were more than 500,000 sheep and 2,400 farmers. That’s quite a drop, despite new...