Blog in France

This could be a fable by my mortal enemy Jean de la Fontaine (you may recall from previous posts that I hate, despise and loathe this long-dead fablist because of the torture he put me and my young son through when having to learn his awful, interminable rhymes for devoirs)....

Monday’s Expat Blog Hop went incredibly well, so a big thank you to all the bloggers who took part with fascinating posts and generous prizes, and to all our visitors who took the time to call by and meet us. I will be organising another one soon as it was...

I’m getting quite good at being an expat. After all, I’ve been one for 20 years now, and in two different countries. I never expected to be. I thought England was my home and that I’d always be there. But things change. We moved to Ireland in 1992 with a...

I’ve just cleared out my handbag. Only a superficial digging through. I don’t often dare dig right down to the bottom and clear everything out. But it needed a quick tidy up. It was getting harder and harder to shove my purse back in every time I used it. And...

Every year we get a lot of mutant dandelions. And every year, I’ve intended to blog about them, but haven’t. So now is the time. Here’s one. It’s like several dandelions melded into one, with several heads and a funny, fat, flat stem. The correct term for this strange growth...