Blog in France

I’m back in Bordeaux. It’s beginning to feel like my second home! And this time I’m staying for three days, my longest holiday in six years. I’ll also be seeing the seaside for the first time in that same period. Caits and I are heading out to the Dune de...

France loves its literary awards and one of the big ones is coming up soon – the Prix Goncourt. The prize money is only €10 but the prestige is enormous. Everyone wants to win it. And here is this year’s shortlist. Vassilis Alexakis : L’enfant grec (Stock) This doesn’t appeal...

Since I’m on something of a cooking theme at the moment, after my last post with apple and hedgehog recipes, today’s cookery-related item is a microwave. Caiti’s microwave, to be exact. If you’ve had a chance to follow her very entertaining blog about student life in Bordeaux, you’ll have seen...

Le Viandier Yesterday Chris picked 10 kg of tomatoes from the polytunnel and today we gleaned 12 kg of wayside apples. So I need to start looking up recipes using these ingredients. Fortunately I’ve found one for tomato and apple chutney, which, since I love chutney, is great. I also...

The temperatures have soared again and it’s back to watering the animals every couple of hours again. But which of our animals is the thirstiest? Despite drinking more than usual at the moment, since we have five lactating mothers in the herd, the llamas are the lowest consumers on a...