Blog in France

##Com-Com Compost We have three new compost bins at the bargain price of €20 each, thanks to a subsidy from Com-Com. Com-Com is short for the Communauté de Communes du Pays du Boussac. http://www.cc-paysdeboussac.fr/ This intercommunal administrative set-up for the fifteen communes in and around Boussac was founded in 1992....

##Lamborjeanie As if changeover Saturdays aren’t busy enough, last Saturday saw Chris and I unsticking a stuck lamb in the evening. We hadn’t expected any lambs this year as we’d got rid of our ram and thought that we’d removed the twin males born last year, Florian and Fabian, from...

Ten Years of Total Immersion Lots of people have asked for a next instalment of ‘Heads Above Water’ and I did originally intend to write one, but there was a bit of a problem. The next stage of lives in France was centred on our gîte business. Now, running a...

We’ve been cooped up for too long with the wretched flu and its aftermath, so it was wonderful today to finally get out for an outing. We were suffering from geocaching withdrawal so Chris tracked us down a nice trail of 10 caches in a forest near Montluçon – the...

For the second time in two years CAF (Caisse Allocations Familiales) has sent me a form to fill in, saying that I need to renew my droit de séjour – right to stay – in France, and asking for details about my working status and proof that my cotisations (social...