Blog in France

The arrival of spring seems to have coincided with the beginning of the winter holidays (ie ski-fortnight for the well-to-do!) so we nipped out for a spot of geocaching this morning. We went to the nearby Parc des Parelles over the Indre border. It’s a beautiful spot – not particularly...

Yes, today’s been gruesome – as in full of grues! Grues = European grey cranes, and they’ve been migrating north today with a vengeance. I can’t remember seeing so many in one day before. I reckon we’ve seen around 10,000. How cool is that! Here are a couple of pics....

Here’s a look at France’s 10 bestselling books for literary lundi this week. This is according to the facts and figures of GfK marketing, and only takes printed books into account i.e. no ebooks. The winner by nearly a million at 1,634, 490 copies sold is Astérix chez les Pictes...

It’s the time of year to be buying in seeds for the year’s fruit and veggies. After last year’s glut of indigestible aubergines, we’re giving them a wide berth for 2014 and getting in seeds for the usual suspects – tomatoes, lettuces, peppers of different potencies, carrots, herbs and so...

Neither Literary Lundi nor a rerun of Llama Lundi for you this lundi (Monday) but Lurgey Lundi. It was the Goons that came up with ‘the dreaded lurgey’ as a type of disease and lurgey has firmly been in the vocabulary since then. And since it’s nicely alliterative, I’ll use...