Mom’s Visit – Part 2

14/07/201206/08/2025 Fooood, Our Travels, Photos, Socialising, The Garden, Visits

Since we are trying to do more frequent, shorter entries, Will strongly suggested that I do one today. We had a lovely meal on Sunday with Mike & Jean and ... Read more

Où Est L’Été??

08/07/201208/05/2023 Socialising, Visits

Bonjour. I realise our entries these days are too infrequent, and consequently too long when we finally get around to them. I shall try to bring us up to date ... Read more

A Visit From Mary Carol, David, Alice and Maeve

09/06/201208/05/2023 Fooood, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, The Garden, Visits, Work

Calm and tranquility have been restored to Port 80 after a great visit from our friends Mary Carol and David and their two girls Alice (age 4) and Maeve (10 ... Read more

A Sunny Parental Visit

30/05/201219/05/2023 Fooood, Sausage & the Smoo, Visits

Bonjour. We have a few days’ gap between visits: an ideal moment for a quick Frog Blog update. We just had a highly enjoyable few days with my parents and ... Read more

Iain’s Visit in the Rain

30/04/201219/05/2023 Fooood, Sausage & the Smoo, Visits, Work

We’re just a bit waterlogged here in Mazeroux since it’s been raining virtually non-stop since the end of March. We did have an exceptionally dry winter so from a gardening ... Read more

Educating Gary (AKA Dave, Gary & Lit’s Visit)

09/04/201208/05/2023 Fooood, Our Travels, Red Wine, Socialising, Visits

Hello all. I am slowly returning to a state of normality after a boozy few days entertaining my bro and his two best mates, Gary Brown and Andrew Little. Dave ... Read more

Life, the Universe & Everything

18/10/201106/08/2025 Birthdays, Fooood, Photos, Socialising, Visits

This title is a homage to the late, great Douglas Adams, author of (among other things) the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. In it, he describes how the most powerful ... Read more

Oops – It’s Been Too Long and Now We’re Off

02/10/201106/08/2025 Our Travels, Photos, Socialising, Visits

I’ve been very negligent in the blog-writing department so for that, I apologise. After Kevin left, I got to work on my new work project. This was writing a document ... Read more

Over-eating with Kevin

20/09/201106/08/2025 Fooood, Our Travels, Photos, Visits

Bonjour. Yep, September has been visitor month! We collected Kevin from Limoges at around 1pm on Thursday, with me making my first of what will no doubt be many drives ... Read more

Dad’s Second Visit

18/09/201106/08/2025 Fooood, Our Travels, Photos, Socialising, Visits

I realise this entry is way overdue but we’ve been very busy since I last posted, mainly wtih visitors. The first was my dad who arrived on Wed from Minneapolis ... Read more