Blog in France

Following on from yesterday’s blog about Halloween preparations, here’s how the flayed face came out – not too bad. The blue dye from the M&Ms ran a bit unfortunately. Olives work best as eyes but we didn’t have any in. However, despite appearances it tasted wonderful. Caiti was a very...

Halloween this year is a rather last minute affair. That’s unusual for us. With our Irish background, we adore the festival and usually go slightly over the top with it. But there have been too many trips to Limoges recently and various other events cropping up so we’ve been short...

Caiti and I had an outing this afternoon to the twelfth Fête de la Laine (wool festival) at Felletin in our departément of Creuse. I think we last went three years ago, and it’s come on in leaps and bounds since then. It’s more than twice the size now and...

We harvested some more medlars the other day. (I’m very, very fond of this unusual and old-fashioned fruit.) We’d cycled past them many times – a fine crop, high up in a roadside hedge. No-one has showed any interest in them at all, so I decided I’d have them. Reaching...

We picked Benj up from University in Limoges on Tuesday and did some sightseeing. I blogged about our trip to the aquarium here. Whilst wandering around the city, we came across several of these. This is cockle shell and it makes one of the pligrim routes taken by St Jacques...