Blog in France

My blog post about the predominance of ghastly pink toilet roll in France has proved to be one of the most popular ever, and there is a bit of an obsession about toilet tales on expat sites in general at the moment, so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon...

Ruadhri’s teachers haven’t been that keen on actually spending time doing their jobs this week and twice he’s had his first few lessons of the morning cancelled. Rather than inflict the pain on all of us involved in getting him to the school bus for 7.30am, when he’d only be...

Having finally got Rors back to school after a week him being at home with le gastro, and with the promise/threat of three days’ of storms heading our way, Chris, Caiti and I headed off to Masgot, le village sculpté. I’ve been wanting to go for years and the crazy...

Not so long ago I blogged about our visit to Fresselines, where the well named moaning impressionist Monet hung out from time to time. And whined mainly. Another, less whingey artist who spent time there was Léon Détroy. There’s a plaque to prove it. Léon who you’re probably saying? Léon...

My annoying shoulder and neck problems finally drove me – very reluctantly – to the doctor’s again. I came out with a truckload of drugs, letters for a rheumatologist (yikes), a prescription for 10 sessions of physio (I foresee pain) and a neck brace (collier cervical). My collier has come...