Blog in France

It’s been quite a crafty Christmas. I love making and doing but haven’t been able to find much time for that lately for all sorts of reasons. But I’ve been making more effort lately to do the creative things I enjoy so much. Priorities, and all that. I mentioned I’d...

We haven’t done a lot of geocaching this year, but have managed to fit in two nice geo-outings during the Christmas holidays. On Monday, having seen that storms were heading our way on Christmas Eve, which is when we usually go for a family walk, we headed off to Etang...

You know what I said about Caiti and trains a week ago? Well, her jinx continues. Having gone back to do her exams, she was heading home again yesterday. She got up at 5 in order to catch her train at 7. And if you know Caiti, you will appreciate...

After twenty-seven years and a bit of being Stephanie Dagg, I’m back to being Stephanie Oakley. Don’t panic – I haven’t divorced Chris, or done away with him, boiled him down and fed him to the pigs. I’m referring to my driving licence. I finally got round to collecting it...

It’s been the sunniest December I can remember. We’re all making the most of it, including the chickens… and cats. And us of course. We fitted in a couple of quick geocaching visits. First we went to Bourg d’Hem on the Petite Creuse river which is in the very pretty...