Blog in France

Coming hard on the heels of problems with mould and mosquitoes, cockroaches are the latest nasty to blight her student flat in Bordeaux. I’m not sure which variety has invaded her. There are four types which are considered pests: American cockroaches, German cockroaches, Asian cockroaches and Oriental cockroaches. I’m guessing...

We’ve had a busy afternoon. Les Belles Mécaniques Dunoises paid us a visit. LBMD is a vintage car club and the drivers and passengers of about 15 wonderful old vehicles turned up to meet our llamas and alpacas. The cars arriving Last night I was industrious preparing alpaca wool keyrings...

Normally by this time of year I’ve put away the warmest of the winter woollies and trousers and started retrieving our summer outfits. It’s usually the time to think about new sandals for Ruadhri’s ever-growing feet and maybe a couple of new t-shirts and some shorts for us all. But...

I took a rather lovely photo yesterday morning. April sunrise over one of our lakes.

You’ll remember I’ve been bemoaning the lack of an English teacher for Ruadhri’s class for about seven weeks now. Last night was time for the termly parent teacher meetings so I voiced my concern to Rors’ prof principal (form teacher). I mentioned that, obviously, I was English and also that...