Blog in France

_Time to hand over the reins again to another energetic and extraordinary expat. Meet Rebecca, who loves living in Greece. I’ve never been there, but I’m rather wishing I had now.  Over to my guest. _   I’d never been one to stick at anything for too long.  A voracious...

I blog about wooding every year, not because I can’t think of anything else to blog about, but because it is such a huge feature of rural French life. Like us, most country people rely on wood as the main source of fuel, and with winters like you get in...

Photo by Petr Kratochvil France is about to export 15,000 lapins (rabbits) to China. To be precise, 15,ooo pregnant female rabbits. They are heading for a rabbit farm in Chongqing in the centre of China and the idea is that they will help the Chinese feed its growing population. In...

Clipartpal Ruadhri’s school rucksack, cartable, is worryingly heavy. Collège textbooks are all on the chunky side, and add to those classeurs (files), cahiers (exercise books) and a well filled trousse (pencil case) and there’s a lot of weight there. Rors has been allocated a locker (casier) at school to use...

Last month, you may remember, we moved our Berkshire boar Oberon to his own field to separate him from the sows, Rosamunde and Portia. He got the hump for several days and ate the super pig house Chris had made for him out of insulation boards. Here’s what’s left of...