Blog in France

We had a family outing this morning to the Forum des Assos (short for Associations – the French love their abbreviations) in Boussac. It was held in an impressively large marquee that had been erected in the town square, thus also taking up most of the car parking space for...

So, it’s la rentrée. The summer holidays, which seemed to stretch endlessly before us at the beginning of July, are over. It’s back to school and back to normal. Rors and Tobi waiting for the school bus Ruadhri isn’t massively impressed, not when it means getting on the school bus...

Well, it’s the last full week of the school holidays. Where have they gone? They always tend to go very quickly since it’s our busiest time with the gite and lakes, on top of the farm, family and other business. And this year quite a bit of time was taken...

Le pub (properly la publicité – promotional leaflets and booklets) still lands in our mailbox with a reverberating thud every week. Amongst the numerous rentrée (back to school) special offers and the usual assortment of fold-outable pictures of meat was a gardening catalogue from Bakker. And in that is this!...

A few days ago, Chris spotted a blue budgie in a blackberry bush behind the barn. We all came to have a look as this was an unusual discovery. Ruadhri said he’d heard there were flocks of wild budgies in certain parts of France that do quite a lot of...