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Category: My French Life

A couple of years ago now, we went through a torrid time in what is now called “The Year of 52 ducklings”. It was all ...

Making friends in France isn’t difficult I’ve found. They don’t care if my French is not great or I get my grammar all wrong. They ...

“When I move to France I only want to have French friends”. This was a line in an email I received from a couple of ...

Getting into the Christmas swing of things takes a while in rural France. Last year, with just over a week to go to the big ...

When Lesley O’Mara of Michael O’Mara publishers in London emailed me to ask if I’d be interested in having my story published, I leapt at ...

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it ...

An email popped into my in box from my publishers the other day “You’re going to America”… Well they didn’t mean me exactly, they meant ...

Sometimes I find more in the chicken pen than I expect. A while back I found a duckling, two hedgehogs and a cat… Ok, a ...

More than a decade after buying this old farmhouse to renovate in France, I was starting to think that at long last it may one ...

Summer in the Seven Valleys, Pas de Calais where I live in France is wonderful. We have plenty of blue sky days, the air is ...