Blog in France

[][1]I got up in a very good mood this morning (I won’t go into details) and, in a fit of joyous optimism, signed up for the WordPress ‘post a day’ challenge for 2011. Which means I have agreed to write a blog article every day for the rest of the...

My Kindle is turning into a mixed blessing. It’s being slightly aggravating in that I have to reconnect to our Wifi nearly every time I use it, which isn’t supposed to happen. It may be a Friday afternoon Kindle and have to get sent back for a replacement at this...

Public domain photo by Petr Kratochvil There are plenty of aphrodisiacs to be found lurking amongst food items that we consider to be typically French. Here are a few to try out on February 14th. Aniseed (anise) has been used as an aphrodisiac since Roman times. Sucking the seeds was...

Snowy gite I’m a lake owner, gite runner and llama farmer. I throw sweetcorn into the lakes through holes in the ice during winter, scrub toilets in summer and shovel llama poo all year round. But I’m also an English graduate, an editor and a writer. I’m articulate, literate, coherent,...

My final bread related blog (I’ve looked at bread ovens and pumpkin bread in earlier posts). A quick look at flour this time. It’s taken me quite a while, but I’ve finally found out what French flour is all about. Way back when in the UK I used three types...