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

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

The 10 Year Anniversary Entry

31/10/201904/05/2023 Anniversary Entries, Life in France, Work

Wow. We’ve been in France 10 years. That’s the longest I’ve spent in a single place my entire life and the longest I’ve lived in any one abode. Will and ... 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

Getting the Folks Connected

22/07/201907/06/2023 Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, The Garden, Work

We’re in the midst of a short but intense heatwave here, so you’ll forgive me if this entry is a less-than scintillating read. First off, the news from Minneapolis : Chuck ... Read more

An Extended Trip to Minneapolis

15/07/201907/06/2023 Fooood, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, The Garden, Work

I am afraid you’ve got me again this week, as Matt is still in the States. In fact, he’s going to stay till the end of the month so he ... Read more

Summer (Temporarily) Arrives

03/06/201907/06/2023 Fooood, Socialising, The Garden, Work

The weather finally came good in the Dordogne at the end of last week. We’ve had three or four days of temps in the high 20’s, peaking around 30 on ... Read more