Blog in France

So 2012 is imminent. I’d like to wish you all an eventful and exciting (but not too extremely so) year and look forward to your continued company over the next twelve months. Thanks for your support in 2011. I hope you’ve enjoyed my posts as much as I’ve enjoyed writing...

It’s calendar time of year again. The Sapeurs-Pompiers appeared last night with theirs. It’s a good quality one but, disappointingly, not like the one produced by firemen in Amiens in 2010 that featured this photo: Now that’s some calendar! So far the postlady, whom we unflatteringly refer to as the...

Caiti and I delivered Benj back to his flat in Limoges on Tuesday. He was keen to get back to revise for upcoming tests, and to see his petite amie again. Plus he reckoned Creuse was too cold for him! The résidences were decidedly unfestive. There was just this notice...

Boxing Day saw us geocaching again. We went for it big time, tackling our first multi-cache challenge. This one had been set by zephyrsailor. There were seven caches altogether to find, but we had to find all of the first six because each one gave a digit to slot into...

We set out for a brisk walk on Christmas morning since a) it was sunny and bright, and b) the likelihood of me being able to round everyone up for exercise after dinner was extremely low. So we set off on one of our usual strolls through the woods into...