Blog in France

##French Food Friday This is week 1 of French Food Friday. (Not to be confused with French Fried Food Day, which is completely different!) The inspiration has come from a home-assembled hamper of various regional French foods that Benj gave me and Chris for Christmas. It contained some things that...

##Hidden History Today being the last day of the school holidays, we needed to take Ruadhri’s mind off his impending doom and so headed off on our first geocaching session of 2017 to Chéniers, not so very far away. One of the reasons we enjoy this hobby so much is...

##An Egg-cellent End To The Year My chickens did it again last month. They stopped laying and I had to resort to buying eggs. Given that I have a lot of hens - I’m guessing at least a dozen that should be laying - this was quite an oversight on...

##Keeping It For Best I’ve decided I’m not going to keep anything ‘for best’ any more. It’s something we all do, don’t we, for example with a particularly nice new jumper or a lovely mug or a pretty bag. We put it to one side for special occasions. Well, I...

##Incr-edible but Incomplete Christmas So another Christmas has come and gone. This was our first one without the full complement of Daggs present: Caitlin is about as far away as it is possible to be, down in Australia. She’s having a wonderful time, which is what it’s all about, but...