The End of Groundhog Sunday :-(

06/09/201024/12/2023 Househunt/Moving, Life in France, Visits

What a terrible, tragic and upsetting thing to have to write a blog entry about. Our year-long holiday is… over! Noooooooooo! As soon as we made the decision to stay ... Read more

The Official Six Month Anniversary Entry

01/05/201005/05/2023 Brantôme Spring Fair, Life in France, Red Wine

For those of you playing along at home, today marks six months to the day since we moved out here. As you may have inferred from our previous two entries, ... Read more

The Bliss Continues

28/04/201022/12/2023 Life in France

WARNING: If you’re prone to envy, this post might not be for you. It’s still April and Oscar, Will and I had our first swim of the year in the ... Read more

Satori, Bliss & Nirvana all at Once

26/04/201006/08/2025 Life in France, Photos, The Garden

I am in a state of advanced bliss today. On Friday of last week, I woke up feeling a little bit off, and over the course of the day, this ... Read more

Sold to the lady with the ‘cello

28/02/201004/05/2023 Life in France

Yo everyone. La Saloppe Francaise here again….finally. Phew, it’s been a loooong and eventful 12 weeks and I’m cream crackered. Christmas and New Year was immense fun with the boys, ... Read more

Happiness is a Warm Pizza

04/12/200904/05/2023 Fooood, Life in France

As we mentioned in one of our earlier posts, we have been feeling the occasional urge for some decent pizza out here, and have largely been frustrated in our efforts. ... Read more

We’re Now Officially 100% Settled In

23/11/200907/06/2023 Life in France

or How I Triumphed Over Our Internet Connectivity Issues. We had a number of things to take care of since we arrived including buying a car, getting it insured and ... Read more

We love French Gravity

15/11/200918/05/2023 Fooood, Fromage, Life in France, Red Wine

We were both a little worried that spending a year out in France, the land of fine food and wine, especially with us not working, would result in us putting ... Read more

From 6 to 16

13/11/200918/05/2023 Life in France

So, I hear the weather has been a little iffy back home in Blighty lately (snigger, snigger). Down here, the temperature has shot up from 6 to a whopping 16 ... Read more

Our phone number

09/11/200907/06/2023 Life in France

Oh yes, one other thing to pass on: we have gotten ourselves a Skype account, so have a landline of sorts – but via the internet only. It’s a very ... Read more