Blog in France

Only 13 days to go till the Rentrée – whether that’s an unlucky or lucky amount of days depends on whether you’re a pupil or a parent! It’s hard to believe the kids have been off nearly two months, but still aren’t going back yet. Nine weeks is quite a...

A hot turkey with a hot alpaca in the background It’s canicule time in central France – i.e. there’s a heatwave. However, not officially yet in Creuse, although Allier and Puy de Dôme, just to the east of us, are marked as such areas with a pending ‘vigilance orange’. To...

My Kindle with its GelaSkin cover I haven’t blogged about my Kindle and writing here for a long while. I generally save those posts for my other blog at http:www.bookarecool.com, but I thought it was time for an update here. First of all, my Kindle has been transformed. The kids...

Wool is the unifying link in this blog post. First up, my head is stuffed with it today. My insomnia is back to haunt me, so last night I finally resorted to taking half a sleeping pill. The doctor prescribed these for Caiti a while ago when she couldn’t sleep,...

August 13th marked five years in France for the Daggs. Wow! So to celebrate the occasion, here are 13 photos from those early days in August 2006. I think you’ll find them fascinating, especially if you’ve ever done anything similar, or are planning to. There was a lot of rubbish...