Blog in France

I wasn’t quite sure what to blog about today. There are always plenty of possible topics and I very efficiently (at least for me) keep a folder of clippings from papers and magazines that I can use if nothing topical is happening that would be more immediate to talk about....

January weather Monday 21st January is 2013’s Blue Monday, apparently the most depressing day of the year. It falls on the Monday of the last full week in January and is an example of pseudoscience at work. (There’s a fascinating and very informative post about pseudoscience here.)  There’s no actual...

Something resembling a Creuse hiver has settled over us and we’re in full winter mode. We’re living in the aptly named living room, the one room we keep warm all day. We make quick dashes to the cold kitchen to make meals to bring back, and we get dressed and...

Well, I’m fed up at the moment. My tendonitis/bursitis/what-the-heckitis is back in my shoulder with a vengeance (I mentioned the hay wrestling last time, didn’t I?) and the steroids I’m taking make me feel sick so grumble, grump, moan. I can’t do all the things I should be doing. And...

We’ve had our first vaguely respectable fall of snow for this winter. Not a great deal by Creuse standards, and sadly – for Rors – nothing like enough to bring the intrepid school buses to a halt. But it’s still snow and we quite like a few days of snow....