Blog in France

Our puncture saga continues. I had another flat tyre yesterday. Chris got the tyre irons out again and got busy and found the culprit that he’d missed last time. A tiny thorn. But … that’s all it takes. So he put a patch on, put everything back together, pumped up...

At last we’re back on our bikes. It’s finally warmed up enough, and Chris has mended all the punctures. We had a real epidemic of them. We did a lot of offroad cycling in the autumn and think we must have picked up bramble thorns from the green lanes we...

Time for another Kindle-related blog, I think. I Kindle every day. (Well, if Argos can be a verb, so can Kindle.) I’ve been downloading zillions of samples, and made a couple of purchases as a result. I made another accidental one, but managed to cancel that one in time. It’s...

I was in a tidying-up mood this morning. It’s been a crazy week, with things starting to get out of control, so I felt the need to do some organising and feel a bit more in charge. First up I made each of the five of us a tidy pot....

I learned something fascinating today. France sent at least one cat into space in the early days of space travel. Her name was Félicette. In 1963 the French government were training a lot of cats for space missions. They were put through centrifuge and compression chamber tests. It can’t have...