Blog in France

From Les Fragnes to Le Fragne The other day we went on a bike ride from our home, Les Fragnes, to a hamlet called Le Fragne in next-door département Indre. From the plural to the singular. Fragne is a version of the French word frêne, which means ash tree. Whilst...

The Grass is always Greener Our llamas now have a bigger, better field. The one they had was already colossal but, since we are fortunate enough to have plenty of land, we decided to let them have some more of it. The inaugural posts for the new field were put...

To be French, or not to be French… With the insanity of Brexit hanging over Europe like a big black cloud, every now and again I think seriously about naturalisation – claiming French citizenship. But generally not for very long, although I’m giving it increasingly more consideration each time it...

A bit late in the day I have finally found out what the advertising push ‘French Days’ is all about. My first attempts to do some research didn’t get me far. French Days typed into the Google search bar came back with language sites giving me the days of the...

Two Months of Total Immersion I launched my two latest books, ‘Total Immersion: Ten Years in France’ and ‘Haircuts, Hens and Homicide’ on 17th February, the day that would have been Dad’s 99th birthday if he’d still been with us. It seemed an auspicious day. And it was. I had...