(Re)Discovering Nice

17/06/201911/06/2023 Fooood, Our Travels, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, Visits

There’s been a lot of socialising, entertaining and travelling of late, and our frog blogging is all out of whack as a result. I’ll go some way to getting us ... 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

An Anniversary, a Last-Minute Break and an Election

27/05/201906/08/2025 Fooood, Our Travels, Photos, Socialising

As the title suggests, we’ve just had a full week of activities, so this will take some re-telling. It was a week of early mornings too, beginning with my hospital ... Read more

Keeping Busy in Many Ways

20/05/201911/06/2023 Fooood, Socialising, The Garden, Work

This is going to be short since I really don’t have time. Work is busy for both of us. We had a meeting with another new client last week. It’s ... Read more

Back to Work For Me

13/05/201916/05/2023 Socialising, Work

I’m relieved to report that the dam has broken at last and I have work again. This hasn’t come from any of the existing websites I’ve got going on, all ... Read more

R.I.P Brantome Spring Fair

06/05/201911/06/2023 Brantôme Spring Fair, Fooood, Music, Socialising, The Garden, Work

I had a bit of a stressful week, with work, the garden and socialising all competing for my time. I got a new project for a client that already had ... Read more

A Bit of a Dreary Week

29/04/201921/12/2023 Fooood, Socialising

We’ve just had a rather unpleasant week as far as the weather goes, but its looks like we’re over the worst of it now. Today was certainly a vast improvement ... Read more

Chemin des Hautes Sources

23/04/201921/12/2023 Fooood, Life in France, Socialising, Work

We’re recently back from a neighbour’s meeting at Daniel and Odielle’s where we decided what to call our road. As part of a modernisation project, France has decreed that all ... Read more

Boltzapalooza (aka Paul’s 50th Birthday Bash)

16/04/201917/05/2023 Birthdays, Fooood, Our Travels

I had a really great, albeit short trip to Hong Kong to celebrate Paul’s 50th. Will took me to Thiviers last Tues where I started my journey. I got the ... Read more

Meanwhile, In Mazeroux

15/04/201914/05/2023 Fooood, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising

You’ll get Matt’s re-telling of his Hong Kong adventure shortly, but while you’re waiting, you can read all about my week alone with the cats. In fact it wasn’t all ... Read more