The Pandemic Years Recap Part III: 2022

31/12/202201/02/2026 Our Travels, Photos, Socialising, The Pandemic Years, Visits, Yearly Recap

2022 saw the removal of nearly all covid restrictions and the reopening of international borders. The global economy however was still in tatters, with massive inflation and supply chain issues ... Read more

Travel in the Time of Coronavirus

16/03/202031/12/2023 Fooood, Life in France, Our Travels, Socialising, The Pandemic Years

I am back from a trip to the UK, which deserves a blog entry. The trip was primarily to see Nan, whose birthday is coming up, and had been booked ... Read more

End of Winter Round-up

07/03/202031/12/2023 Anniversary Entries, Birthdays, Fooood, Music, Our Travels, Socialising, The Garden, The Pandemic Years, Work

My alternate title for this post is “The Winter that Wasn’t”, although Will wouldn’t agree. It was the warmest winter on record, although that’s not saying much since it’s the ... Read more

9 Years at Port 80 and a Holiday Recap

12/01/202004/05/2023 Anniversary Entries, Birthdays, Fooood, Life in France, Socialising

We moved into Port 80 on 7 Jan, 2011, so this is another anniversary entry of sorts. This is the longest I’ve ever lived in the same place, beating my ... Read more

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

Gujan-Mestras

18/11/201904/05/2023 Our Travels, Socialising

Well, we said we were only going to blog if something noteworthy happened, and last weekend it did so I’d best tell you about it. Here’s the story of our ... Read more

Matt’s Big Birthday Week / A Double Visit

28/10/201904/05/2023 Birthdays, Fooood, Socialising, Visits, Work

As Matt said in his last post, we took his birthday week off as holiday. Predictably, this meant that several clients chose it as the week to start coming back ... Read more

A Social Start to October

14/10/201909/05/2023 Birthdays, Fooood, Music, Socialising, The Garden, Work

October started with a bang. The 1st is Virginie’s birthday, and they were having a party for her at the weekend, which we couldn’t attend. So Benoit called us on ... Read more

A Fortnight of Goodbyes

30/09/201904/05/2023 Fooood, Socialising, Work

Ok, here’s the 2nd fortnightly round-up from Mazeroux. I should start by mentioning my new guitar, which is a source of constant joy to me. I was surprised and very ... Read more

Frog Blog Goes Bi-Weekly

17/09/201904/05/2023 Fooood, Our Travels, Socialising, Visits, Work

With the passing of Marilyn and Chuck, we’ve lost nearly half our readership in the past year. And since there really isn’t that much to say these days, we’ve decided ... Read more