Blog in France

Talk about being at the right place at the right time. I was in the bank on Friday afternoon, sorting out something to do with a savings account, when my advisor, Julie, busy on the computer, said she’d just had an email saying that our Benj was overdrawn. Now, overdrawing...

Chris and I have been wearing our bleus de travail a lot recently. Our what? Our bright blue, tough cotton jackets that you see many workpeople wearing in France. It’s a distinguishing feature of the nation. We don’t have the matching trousers yet. We really only bought the jackets to...

It’s all about food at the moment here at Les Fragnes. Chris has just finished home-butchering our first home-grown-on weaner, and we’re over 50 kg of pork better off. Most of this is bagged up in the freezer, but the two legs are being cured in different ways, and Chris...

October has got off to a good start. The weather is still sunny but it’s getting chilly. We had hoped to hold off having a fire until October, but a couple of days ago it was just too nippy in the living room at 6.30 am, so Chris cracked. Out...

I was going to blog about my awesome new piece of kit. You know how every now and again you but something that makes you think “Why on earth didn’t I get this years ago?”, well, that’s just happened to me. Having gleaned a vast quantity of damsons from the...