Blog in France

 </p> Gratuitous cute kitten photo to make you say 'ahhh'! </div> OK, where am I on the writing front? I promised I’d keep you updated in my blog post http://www.bloginfrance.com/2011/write-back-where-i-belong/, and, since I always enjoy seeing how other writers are progressing, here’s my contribution. I’m 22,000 words into my living...

When we moved into Les Fragnes nearly five years ago now, the loft of what is now our gite, Notaire’s House, was stuffed with treasures – clothes, tools, toys, books and journals. One of these journals is La Mode Illustrée. We have copies dating back to 1876. It’s a large...

This is my desk as it was last night. Eek. Not impressive. Actually, it was rather worse than usual since I had to quickly dump a load of stuff on it in a hurry.  And it’s not a desk. It’s an écritoire that Chris bought me out of the blue...

There’s a lot of advice on the web about table manners in France, many of them implying there’s a lot of formality. Possibly that’s true, I guess I just don’t move in those circles! My own experience has been much more of informality, particularly for the kids. Now, in Ireland,...

Back at my blog after an outing. Chris and I were away a whole 30 hours, our first time leaving the farm together, and our first child-free outing since Caiti was small! We went to Mayenne, to another Angling Lines fishing holiday venue, Oakview Lake, run by Martin and Shirley...