Sausage and the Smoo

28/07/201005/05/2023 Fooood, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, The Garden

Another long period between entries because there’s not much happening out here in the country. It’s been cool with a bit of rain over the past week but it’s on ... Read more

Bored of the Flies

19/07/201007/06/2023 Sausage & the Smoo, The Garden, Visits

Time for another brief update from the Dordogne dwellers. I am writing this one in the garden, where it is already hotting up nicely and the sky is gloriously blue. ... Read more

The Spanna & Goon Show

09/07/201004/05/2023 Fooood, Sausage & the Smoo, Visits

Don’t ask why, but Anna calls me the Goon and she is often known as Spanna, so there you go. So, picking up where Matt left off, Monday morning saw ... Read more

Dave & Rosie – The Sequel

07/07/201018/05/2023 Sausage & the Smoo, The Garden, Visits

This blog post is brought to you from suburban Minneapolis, MN. I am here for my dad’s 80th birthday celebration and to catch up with friends and family. But I’m ... Read more

This is your 6am Alarm Service

29/06/201018/05/2023 Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, Visits

(Shame you never requested one!) Yes, we are up at the “crack of sparrows”, to borrow a Kath & Kim malapropism. For the last couple nights, we have needed the ... Read more

A Momentry Lapse of Reason

24/06/201007/06/2023 Sausage & the Smoo, The Garden

My turn to borrow from a song for a blog title (well, this was the title of a Pink Floyd album but it about sums it up for me). I ... Read more

Hey Summer, Where Ya Been?

21/06/201022/12/2023 Sausage & the Smoo, The Garden

I’m misappropriating a line from a Ben Folds Five song because it accurately represents the weather here in the Dordogne these past few weeks. It’s been rainy, cloudy or otherwise ... Read more

Two Pesky Critics

15/06/201005/05/2023 Guitar, Music, Sausage & the Smoo

A guitar update. I am still in the process of learning Clapton’s superb, unplugged version of Layla – I have the verse and chorus parts sussed and now just need ... Read more

French Health Care, Cats and Lots of Spinach

14/06/201022/12/2023 Sausage & the Smoo, The Garden

First of all, apologies for the weekend outage. Our hosting company moved the site from one server to another and in the process, caused the blog to fail. Despite claiming ... Read more

Introducing Leon & Louis!

06/06/201006/08/2025 Photos, Sausage & the Smoo

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” This one of my favourite funny quotes, by the US author Garrison Keillor. However, Garry, you ... Read more