Blog in France

I found this in an edition of La Mode Illustrée from 1901. La Mode Illustrée was a fashion newspaper for women and someone who used to live here at Les Fragnes loved it. We have copies dating from the 1870s up to 1910 or so. They’d all been lovingly bundled...

I shall be looking at a lot of the old magazines we inherited over the weeks to come, before either rehoming them or packing them away for any future owners of Les Fragnes. I told you about Micheline recently. I’ve since come across some more serialised novels. These came with...

Wherever you go in the French countryside you will see blue baling twine. Not too much languishing in ditches or otherwise littering the place, but lots along fences and across gateways, keeping cattle in. Cows are terrified of the stuff since it resembles the equally scary and much more painful...

I have a rather tasty guest post for you today. I happened across Tasty Treats From Home on Twitter. After many years of staying resolutely French in what we consumed (apart from teabags and peanut butter which visitors kept us stocked up in), as you’ll have seen from some recent...

I was going to write a post about the horse meat scandal from the French point of view but I had to hit the painkillers for my shoulder tonight and my brain has gone soggy. So I’ll just tell you that the account of the scandal in Ruadhri’s Mon Quotidien...