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Category: My French Life

In the far north of France where I live in the lovely Seven Valleys, by the time February arrives, we’re usually feeling a bit soggy ...

Every year it’s the same in my little village in the Seven Valleys, northern France. Madame Bernadette who lives at the bottom of the hill ...

As a poultry keeper, I’m always amazed by the antics of my birds. I have ducks, chickens and geese – they’re pets, not for the ...

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 ...