Blog in France

Since I will only have crawled back from Strasbourg a few hours ago, I’m scheduling another blog before I leave to go up in my absence. Here are a few sayings about France and the French that you might enjoy!   An old saying: Raise your right hand if you...

I’m in Strasbourg, so I’ve scheduled this excerpt (the first 2,600 words or so) from my living in France book to appear in my blog. The working title is Heads Above Water. Hope you enjoy!   Chapter 1 __ Aux grands maux les grands remèdes. Desperate times call for desperate...

Not so long ago I was sure we’d witnessed an earthquake. We were walking up our drive when there was an incredibly loud crunching sound. Now, I’d heard something very like that before, many years ago, when there’d been a very short earthquake in Washington, Tyne and Wear. I’d been...

This question popped up in my brain the other day as I was doing the weekly shop in the supermarket. There were a few packets of white toilet rolls, but all the rest were pink. And, if you’ve been to France, you’ll know that it’s not a particularly nice shade...

Now, I’d always been under the impression that you couldn’t eat llama meat in France. I was told that on good authority. But I was doing some research yesterday – not, I hasten to add, because I want to eat either Gabby, Windy, Katrina, Lulin, Vicky, Georgie, Mellie, Ciara, Plunkett,...