Blog in France

It’s been an animal-heavy few days. First up we took Voltaire and Gigi to the vet. Volty, currently known as Radar Kitty, has had an open sore under his chin for quite a while. We’ve tried various dressings on it but he always managed to scratch them off. I called...

From time to time I review books with a French connection here at Blog in France. Today I’m playing host to M J Rose’s virtual book tour with her historical fiction, Collector of Dying Breaths. The French element is that it features Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, and France’s...

It seems to be Thunderbirds Are Go for Blog in France again, thank goodness. The problems were being caused by software that Chris had put in place to stop there being problems. How ironic. Yesterday I went to the spring edition of the Boussac Chicken Fest as an early Mother’s...

Much of urban France is under a layer of smog at the moment. Paris has been particularly hard hit, but many other cities have suffered too. My Bordeaux correspondent, daughter Caiti, reported that her city was smoggy too and public transport was free there last weekend in a bid to...

It’s French Language Week – Semaine de la Langue Française et de la Francophonie. It began yesterday, 15th March, and runs to the 22nd. It’s a week in which to celebrate the wonderfulness of French. The website is here www.dismoidixmots.culture.fr/ Take a look and see if anything is going on...