Gatecrashing a Peters Family Reunion

05/05/201306/08/2025 Fooood, Our Travels, Photos, Red Wine, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, Visits, Work

As Matt foretold, here is part 2 of the saga, following hot on the heels of part 1. Matt is writing at his usual place in the kitchen and I ... Read more

Here Comes Two Entries In A Row

05/05/201315/05/2023 Fooood, Socialising, The Garden, Work

Please forgive us, dear readers, for the long wait between posts. My only excuse is that work got in the way of my blogging duties. I will take you up ... Read more

Another Roberts Working Holiday

10/04/201315/05/2023 Fooood, Socialising, The Garden, Visits

Afternoon all. A slightly late entry this time round, because we have been busy entertaining my parents who came over for a long weekend. We had a lovely time with ... Read more

Easter Weekend

01/04/201315/05/2023 Fooood, Socialising, The Garden, Work

Happy Spring Fertility Festival, aka Easter. It’s actually the day after but it’s a public holiday here so it still counts in my book. Just like last year, Milhac celebrated ... Read more

My 100th Blog Post

14/03/201315/05/2023 Fooood, Socialising, Work

A late but momentous post today, my 100th. We met with Vortex a week ago Monday and it went well. Since then we’ve taken control of their sites and Will ... Read more

Things are looking up

03/03/201315/05/2023 Birthdays, Fooood, Music, Socialising

Hello Frog bloggers! I am back from my enforced absence to do my first post in over a month, and I have quite a bit to say. Hope I don’t ... Read more

Nice and Short for Once

25/02/201315/05/2023 Fooood, Socialising, Work

I know it’s been over a week but not much has happened so I hope to keep this nice and short. The weekend before last, we had just one social ... Read more

Hail the Victor, the Sore is No More

06/02/201315/05/2023 Fooood, Work

It gives me great pleasure to announce Will’s triumph over his hand sore today. We got him to the hospital well advance of his 9am appointment. He was put in ... Read more

Winter is Here

18/01/201315/05/2023 Fooood, Socialising

This winter is turning out a lot like last year’s, without the Siberian cold front (we hope). We got our first snow the other day, about 4 inches of wet, ... Read more

Xmas 2012 Part 2: Olney and Beyond

02/01/201308/05/2023 Fooood, Socialising

Monday was xmas eve and we headed out of London for Olney, stopping first at the Dalston Sainsbury’s to collect things that we can’t get in France. In hindsight, this ... Read more