Blog in France

My hands are usually the same colour as Chris's! It’s been like March or November most of this week – cold and wet. But I girded my loins and went for quick dip in the pool today. I can’t bear to not use it since we’re so lucky to have...

Time for a seasonal book review. The Tour de France is in its last exciting week, so here’s a look at French Revolutions: cycling the Tour de France by Tim Moore. I stumbled upon this book listed on Gerry Patterson’s cycling website. Parsimonious as ever, I got a budget copy...

Porcupines Our first visit to Haute Touche parc animalier (wildlife park) was in August 2006, shortly after we’d moved to France. We combined a trip there with a visit to a prospective fish supplier at nearby Le Blanc in Indre. This year’s visit had a fishy connection too. This time...

We are just back in from a fabulous day out – our first for a couple of years we think, seriously. Boy, do we need a holiday! Anyway, we went up to the parc animalier at Haute Touche in Indre. I’ll write about it properly tomorrow, but in the meantime...

We have piles of old magazines here at Les Fragnes. And by old, I mean very old. Many are one hundred years old, some nearly one hundred and fifty. I have an ongoing dilemma of what to do with them. For now they can continue to gather dust and provide...