Easter with Gavin and Life without Internet

29/04/201108/05/2023 The Garden, Visits

It’s been a long time since our last post and it’s not entirely our fault. We’re currently without Internet since we’re in the process of switching providers. So far, we’ve ... Read more

Nos Premiers Visiteurs

13/04/201108/05/2023 Fooood, The Garden, Visits

Ever since moving into our new place, a question that had been on our minds, and undoubtedly on yours too, is who our first visitors would be. For a long ... Read more

Port 80 Épanoui

05/04/201115/05/2023 Fooood, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, The Garden, Visits

Meaning “in bloom”. Because it is – in several ways. First, the garden is really beginning to look lovely now. We have a wisteria vine creeping up over one half ... Read more

At Last – A Furnished Home

29/03/201108/05/2023 Life in France, Socialising, The Garden

I am writing this while sitting at our new dining table, gazing out at a furnished room. Until yesterday, we still had lots of stuff in boxes, some of which ... Read more

How Does Your Garden Grow?

11/03/201106/05/2023 Sausage & the Smoo, The Garden

Very well, we hope. Due to the continuation of our amazing weather, we’ve spent most of the past week gardening. With the exception of yesterday, it’s been at least 15C ... Read more

From one Extreme…

05/03/201106/05/2023 Life in France, Our Travels, Sausage & the Smoo, The Garden

Hi. After a week of sheer bedlam back in the UK, things are back to their usual snail’s crawl of a pace for us out in France. Well, there actually ... Read more

Il Fait Beau

10/02/201106/05/2023 Fooood, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, The Garden

I know many of you are enduring a harsh winter so I am not writing this to rub it in your faces. For us, the blog is our diary and ... Read more

As High As An Elephant’s Eye

07/10/201006/05/2023 Fooood, Househunt/Moving, Red Wine, Sausage & the Smoo, The Garden, Visits

The corn, that is. It’s the seeds I brought back from the States and we may actually end up with an ear or two by next week. Some of the ... Read more

A Change Is Gonna Come

25/09/201024/12/2023 Househunt/Moving, Sausage & the Smoo, The Garden

As the days begin to grow shorter (that’s an odd turn of phrase, now that I think about it), so does the end of our sabbatical draw ever nearer. We ... Read more

A Visit From Friends of Long-Standing

11/09/201006/05/2023 Fooood, Socialising, The Garden, Visits

Today’s title is a homage to my late grandfather who thought it rude to call one’s friends “old”, instead preferring to refer to them thusly. The friends this title refers ... Read more