Blog in France

It’s the Chinese New Year today – Happy Year of the Dragon to everyone – so a very good time to talk about pandas, China’s most dramatic export. France now has a pair of pandas at Beauval. We visited there last summer and at the time we commented on how...

Cool cartoon off the service sheet This morning, Saturday, Chris and I went to a rather nice ceremony at St Clair’s in Nouzerines. It was a little service to bless the new clocher (bell tower). The weather was foul but at least it was dry inside the church, although it...

Limpy We have a missing chicken situation tonight. When I went out to put the turkeys and hens to bed, I couldn’t find Limpy anywhere. Limpy is a Labelle chicken, and must be about three years old now. We bought her and five of her siblings for the freezer, but...

The infection I’ve had for a few days has left me feeling like I’ve been hit by a train, so here a few fun animals photos for today. Back to proper blogging tomorrow, all being well! Llamas love rolling Cats like drinking Dogs like sleeping upsidedown Turkeys like pecking Guinea-pigs...

I joined a union today. See, I’m taking my drive to become a French national this year very seriously. I’ve signed up with the FEDAE – Fédération des auto-entrepreneurs. And on a good day since today the federation presented its livre blanc to the government. A livre blanc, literally white...