Blog in France

Today, 8th May, is Victory in Europe Day – and also our llama Victoria’s birthday. (Hence her name.) Possibly you recall her dramatic delivery. Mum and baby meet She’s one year old today. She’s not fully grown yet – she has another six months or so to go. Vicky’s quite...

I’ve been keeping a note of search terms used to get to my blog for about a month now, out of curiosity. A few puzzling ones have cropped up. I’m not sure how someone looking for ‘chocolate French blog’ ended up at www.bloginfrance.com, but they were very welcome. Also baffling...

Ruadhri and I joined SEPOL for 2011 – SEPOL being the Société pour l’Etude et la Protection des Oiseaux en Limousin. We got a letter today telling us about a survey aiming to determine how many of two different species of bird there are in France. The birds in question...

My glamour week is going well – Yves Rocher goodies Monday, haircut Tuesday and a bike ride wearing lipstick Wednesday. Here I am touching up before we set off! We had a great ride this morning. Rors is getting the hang of using his 18 gears so our average speed...

I had two bad moments on Tuesday. The first was when I got this through the post: I was thrown for a moment. Why did the RSI want more money off me? (The RSI handles the cotisations – social charges – for most self-employed people in France.) I pay my...