Blog in France

Today, believe it or not, is National Garlic Day. And since garlic is irrevocably linked in most people’s minds with France, well, I had to blog about it. Garlic, Allium Sativum, is originally from Asia. China is still the world’s biggest garlic grower, producing more than 12 million tonnes of...

I drove Caiti down to Guéret today to get her back to school. She went down with something nasty at the weekend. She’s not 100% by any means but she didn’t want to miss all of her bac blanc (mock Bac) exams. Poor thing, she spent her 18th birthday full...

I am seriously considering becoming nocturnal. Take last night for example. We went to bed about 10 pm, nice and early in readiness for getting up just after 5.30 am to get Caiti off for the lycée bus at 6.20 am. About an hour later, Rors blundered into our room...

We are just back from a chilly and breezy but interesting morning at a wool festival. It was organised by Laines Locales of Limousin and was held at nearby Prébenoit Abbey. Had the weather been better we would have cycled there – it’s about 10 km away – but we’d...

Photo from lexpress.fr I shall have to eat humble pie. That lonely poster of François Hollande outside Nouzerines Mairie that I blogged about yesterday has now been joined by the other nine candidates. And in the right order. Oh yes, this is France, remember. You can’t go sticking up your...