Blog in France

You’re probably aware that we’re impatiently waiting for our first litter of Berkshire pigs to arrive. We’ve been told we’re probably in the last week or her pregnancy now, so let’s hope so. It’s been a very long wait! But we’ve had some other piglets born – guinea-piglets. Two litters...

The 2014 editions of Le Petit Larousse and Le Petit Robert will be coming out in early June and here are a few of the new words you’ll find in them. chelou: this is the verlan (French slang that reverses the two halves of a word) for louche = shifty,...

The first Tweet was sent on 21 March 2006 and now there are more than 500 million Twitter accounts in existence. Probably only about half of these are actually used regularly, but that’s still a pretty impressive figure. Around 2.3 million of these belong to French people. Every minute, across...

The Roland-Garros tennis tournament is underway in Paris at the moment. It’s the major event in this sport in France and has been going on in one form or another since 1891 when it started life as the Championnat de France (French Championships). That was men only. In 1897 women’s...

My English Club at Collège is going well. I now have 18 kids coming along and we’ve moved to a classroom which is a little more formal a setting than I’d have really liked, but the blackboard is coming in useful. Well, when I say blackboard, it’s a fold-outable, height...