Blog in France

Caiti’s back to tell us more about her discovery day in Bordeaux. Our first stop was the Église Sainte-Croix (and not St. Michel, which I had written in my last post, oops). A short organ concert/demonstration by a student studying organs (the instrument!) and how to  direct a choir (I’m...

Ruadhri came home from school yesterday and very proudly handed Chris and I each a catalogue full of fabulous but fiendishly expensive festive choccies. Collège is on the earhole, following in the steps of our illustrious président. I’m not sure what to think about it. While it’s good the school...

_It’s Guest Post Central here at Blog in France at the moment! It’s great to have visiting writers, and particularly welcome at the moment when things are even more hectic than usual at Les Fragnes. _ Anyway, here is our Caitlin, the Bordeaux Bumpkin herself, with the latest news from...

We’ve been looking forward to making our first batch of homemade sausages and at last the collagen sausage skins arrived, thanks to eBay. We could, of course, have manufactured our own sausage skins by using a certain part of the pig’s anatomy but neither of us fancied emptying it and...

The annual Fête de la Science is taking place at the moment (10th till 14th October), but sadly not in Creuse. There isn’t a single event, which is pretty pathetic. A few years ago there was a great do in Guéret that I took Rors out of school to visit...