Blog in France

We’re halfway through Nivôse, the fourth month in the French Republican Calendar. I’ve mentioned now and again in various blogs how interested I am in the French Republican Calendar. “The what?” you may be wondering. Let me explain. The new Republican Government that came into power after the Revolution wanted...

New Year’s Day was quietly momentous for us as it saw our eldest son setting off for England where he starts work next Monday. He obtained his Master’s degree in the summer, after two hard years of study, and then began job-hunting. He didn’t manage to find anything locally in...

I must introduce you to Precious. Here she is. Precious is a Chausson V594 fourgon amenagée. Fourgon is French for van, more or less. (It also means poker, luggage van on a train and army ammo truck, but we can safely ignore those). Fourgons come in lots of forms: to...

My blogging mojo deserted me for a while for a whole variety of reasons, but I’m now back in business. We’ve been doing plenty since my last blog – our usual geocaching when time allows, moving eldest son out of his flat prior to his moving to England, jobs round...

I’m making big efforts to avoid plastic packaging. On average, every year every person in the EU produces 31 kg of plastic waste. Actually, ‘produces’ isn’t quite the right word as it’s not the householder generating it from scratch: that’s what manufacturers persist in doing, despite the growing trend against...