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After a wonderful weekend visit from my daughter, I walked her to the station on Sunday evening and on my way home I got knocked over by two boys...
We're enjoying a re-run of "Zorro" - the Guy Williams version. I loved this as a child and we got chatting about other TV shows from our...
A tablespoon of mixed fruit sorbet .....
Dany and I walk though the vineyards most days and each spring are delighted that a pair of toads (they may be frogs ..) return to the same...
[ATTACH] Ah! Plastic box that lies just out of reach, Many-buttoned friend of I and I; I long to touch you and to massage each Button,...
"L'Appel de 18 Juin" is something all French children learn about and is celebrated every year. It was the day that General de Gaulle, leader of...
As usual a few idiots they are spoiling this competition for the thousands of genuine fans who just want to enjoy a sport they love. I favour...
I had planned to go to Paris on Friday afternoon and stay until Sunday evening. But we're having intermittent national strikes here in France and...
...... this baby. She's a Yamaha XJR 1300 AS She weighs 4 times what I weigh - but we've done many hundreds of kms together. Sometimes I ride...
Th prmannt loss of th 5th lttr of th alphabt has com as a shock to most popl. But Profssor dward McKnzi of th University of Cambridg says that h's...
[IMG] Hula-hooping naked I thunked a funny thought. It seemed to me that, logically, I ought to buy a fort. "I ought to buy a fort", I...
Apparently I'm "post-viral" - I feel like lead weights have been sewn into my clothes and I'm sleeping 10 hours each night plus a siesta of 1 or 2...
... Dany got a new mobile phone this morning. His old one was 9 years old, the number '4' key didn't work and the tired old battery needed...
In October 2015 I decided to learn to knit socks - I read somewhere that they are more comfortable than bought socks and I decided to have a go....
We've been on a red alert for 24 hours - it's just been downgraded to an orange. But there are still some areas at red. A lot of people have had...
I'm doing my level best to reduce the number of bottles - but they keep adding to the total each year. Epernay is known as the "entrpôt" of...
Has anyone ever started learning Esperanto? If you don't know about this language - it is a constructed language. The aim was to create a...
We decided to get a large built-in wardrobe for the spare room and we worked out that we could pay for a hand-made purpose-built piece. We found a...
The Fête de Mères is always on the last Sunday of May - ie: today. My daughter had planned to come by train from Paris to have lunch with me, but...
Hello everyone - my name is Julie and I'm a 58 year-old Brit who has lived in France for the last 16 years. I'm delighted to have found this forum...