Blog in France

##Bird-day News ###It’s been quite a week for birds. Last weekend I discovered I’d been outwitted again by a pair of critters with brains the size of a pinhead, namely Gus the zebra finch and his consort, an unnamed female. A month or so back we found Tina, Gus’s first...

##Bird-day News ###It’s been quite a week for birds. Last weekend I discovered I’d been outwitted again by a pair of critters with brains the size of a pinhead, namely Gus the zebra finch and his consort, an unnamed female. A month or so back we found Tina, Gus’s first...

##Catching up My blogging mojo abandoned me for a while there – that, and I always forget how busy and tiring (in a nice way) summer is. There’s gardening and extra animal watering to add to all the usuals of daily family and business life, and not forgetting obligatory cycling...

##Keep Calm And Don’t Panic If Your Child Won’t Revise! Like hundreds, thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of other parents, this weekend I’ve been looking up on the internet about how to deal with the problem of the exam-facing but non-revising teen. The Brevet des Collèges is just around the...

##Mayday, Mayday The rain is pounding on the window and the wind is howling. It’s hard to think it’s been to be 1 May tomorrow. It really has been a very strange spring. It’s been cold, then a little bit warmer, then a lot colder, and doesn’t show any signs...