The 2025 Yearly Recap: Changes

31/12/202504/04/2026 La Fête du Spardos, Le Tanksgeeving, Our Travels, Photos, Sausage & the Smoo, Visits, Yearly Recap

Change can be exciting. Change can be scary. Change can bring about improvements. Change can also bring about sorrow. Since the last entry, we have gained and we have lost.

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Thanksgiving for 60

03/12/201909/05/2023 Fooood, Le Tanksgeeving, Life in France, Music, Socialising, Work

We’re slowly recovering from Thanksgiving weekend. We changed the format slightly and instead of hosting 10 people at the house, we had 60+ people at the Salle des Fetes in ... Read more

A Communal Thanksgiving

26/11/201806/08/2025 Fooood, Le Tanksgeeving, Photos, Socialising, Work

It’s a dark and dreary Monday here in Mazeroux! All this last week we’ve needed to light fire upon getting up, and on Tuesday night we had our first frost, ... Read more

Thanksgiving 2017

27/11/201716/05/2023 Fooood, Fromage, Le Tanksgeeving, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, The Garden, Visits, Work

Not much happened on Mon and Tues. Andrew has been here working on the house and has made good progress. He fixed the dormer window so it doesn’t leak and ... Read more

Thanksgiving 2016

28/11/201609/05/2023 Fooood, Le Tanksgeeving, Socialising, Visits, Work

We had one more day with our visitors on Tuesday. They had seen St Jean de Cole on the way here, so we suggested the Grotte de Villars and Brantome. ... Read more

Thanksgiving 2015 Featuring French Guests

30/11/201506/08/2025 Fooood, Le Tanksgeeving, Photos, Socialising, Work

First off, here are some photos of our last gig. It was a quiet week, so this should be a brief entry. I went to choir on Tuesday where we ... Read more

Thanksgiving etc.

01/12/201416/05/2023 Fooood, Le Tanksgeeving, Socialising, Work

It’s been another quiet week. Will had a client meeting on Tuesday with CNPV, the equestrian organisation in nearby St Jory de Chalais. He got the green light to build ... Read more

My Trip to Mpls and Our Second Gig

09/12/201315/05/2023 Fooood, Gigs, La Soirée Britannique, Le Tanksgeeving, Music, Our Travels, Socialising, Work

I’ve got a lot to report, so I will try my best to be brief. I needn’t have worried about my expired passport, although it did cause a bit of ... Read more

Thanksgiving

04/12/201209/05/2023 Fooood, Le Tanksgeeving, Socialising

Will has won the war of attrition although in my defence, I wasn’t aware there was one going on until recently. That is the war over who’s turn it is ... Read more

Our Third Thanksgiving

26/11/201109/05/2023 Fooood, Le Tanksgeeving, Socialising

It’s been a while between entries again, mostly due to lack of anything happening. Picking up where Will left off, the rest of the previous week was quiet. I spent ... Read more