Blog in France

The 25th of November is Saint Catherine’s Day. This is an important day, not just because my daughter is an Irish Catherine (Caitlin is the Gaelic version of the name), or solely because Saint Catherine is the patron saint of spinners, amongst other things (and I’m a wannabe spinner of...

It’s ironic. It’s European Week for Waste Reduction (Semaine Européene de la Réduction des Déchets) and here am I, sat at my computer, with a pile of le pub (publicity emanating mainly from supermarkets that’s delivered every Tuesday) on my lap. I’d intended to do a blog about these pointless...

Yesterday was the second part of my food hygiene course. Mercifully it was only a half day this time. A full day of French is rather heavy going. It was all very hands-on in that we got lots of detailed hand-outs this time. We were also pointed in the direction...

A lot of people find French numbers confusing. And, let’s face it, they are. Instead of ‘seventy-eight’ you have to say ‘sixty-eighteen’ and since there isn’t a nice, handy equivalent of ‘ninety-nine’, well, you have to go with ‘four-twenties-nineteen’. I’ve acclimatised. In the early days, if I was taking down...

My kitchen is currently chaotic. You’ll remember from this post that I’m currently undergoing training in food hygiene. The trainer will be visiting me next Thursday to draw up a plan on how we can manage kitchen cleanliness when making meals for our visitors. So Chris and I have been...