Blog in France

This is doing the rounds of blogs at the moment, so I thought I’d join in as it’s rather fun and present my own ABC. (There are another 7 ‘bet you never knew’ facts about me on my 100th blogiversary post!)   Age: 48 Bed Size: king Chore You Hate:...

Caitlín (and yes that is an accent on the i – it’s called a foda in Irish and makes the letter long) is 17 today, the 17th. Apparently that’s called a champagne birthday, when your age matches your birth date. But Caiti doesn’t like fizzy drinks or alcohol so not...

There is nowhere to park in Boussac at the moment. An archaeological dig is going on by the church, there seems to be something happening at the exhibition halls, and the Scary Fair has filled the market place and central streets of the town. These are the main car parking...

[][1]In days gone by, Creuse, our départemente, was famous for its stonemasons. Every spring (traditionally when the swallows arrived), they headed up to Paris and to other cities in France to work on the buildings and monuments there. They didn’t come home till the end of autumn. So they had...

The Echo du Berry comes out on a Thursday. It’s one of our local weekly papers, and probably the most popular. Everyone seems to read it. The Echo itself reckons it has around 60,000 readers for the 13,300 copies it sells each week (2010 figures). Since it covers an area...