Blog in France

Ruadhri sang this song at one of his Christmas concerts, and it’s stayed a favourite – _La Gr__ève des Sapins by Dominique Dimey. _ So I’ve done my own translation of it. Enjoy! Chorus : It’s a strike by Christmas Trees And their pine cones, if you please! They’ve decided, every...

Nouzerines’ Marché de Noël got underway this afternoon. Caitlin has been busy with it for a couple of months now, going down to the school on Saturday mornings to make Christmas decorations and other trinkets to sell on the Comité des Fête’s stall. Benj went down to help one morning...

I have a headache, a stiff shoulder and sore calves today. Why? Because yesterday I was dancing for over 4 hours at the Boussac Battle of the Bands. (And I wasn’t the oldest rocker there either but I was the oldest one in the mosh pit!) The Amities Internationales du...

Cranes flying over our house on 17 November 2010 There are currently several tens of thousands of common cranes (grus) flying over France. A couple of thousand of those came over our house this afternoon. Every autumn, usually early November, they fly from northern Europe (Sweden, the Baltic Sea and...

I’ve reluctantly decided not to go to my first alpaca show. I entered a couple of months ago, planning to take Plunkett to enter the class for Suri alpacas and also the fancy dress class. Brendan was coming along to keep him company in the fancy dress, and also to...