Blog in France

I’ve blogged about Noz before. It’s a chain of bargain stores that send end of lines and other remaindered stock. Caiti was at the one in Gueret today and look what she found. London Olympics 2012 souvenirs! I have to wonder how they ended up there. And talking of Caiti,...

Daughter Caiti has introduced me to Reddit.com. She took place in a Christmassy exchange and received a box of the most wonderful homemade spicy biscuits. So I signed up too and took part in the book exchange. I despatched an assortment of ebooks to the person I’d been allocated, which...

There seems to be a shortage of teachers at Ruadhri’s school at the moment. He’s into the fifth week of no English teacher at the moment (that spans a two-week holiday) and his maths teacher is about to head off as a helper with the school trip to Spain for...

The arrival of the last day of the school holidays and a definite hint of spring in the air had us out geocaching on Sunday morning. Today the destination was Crozant, a very toursity spot in Creuse, but one we’d never yet been to.  Which is silly as it’s not...

The 2013 Paris-Nice cycle race starts tomorrow and in celebration let’s look back to that of eighty years ago. We have a lot of editions of an old sports newspaper, Match, from 1932 and 1933, and one of these is about the Paris-Nice race in 1933. Here are some fabulous...