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My French Life: Museums and memories of France
May is when the European Night of the Museums takes place. It’s a night when many of the museums of France open to the public ...
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The Chapel at Embry, Pas-de-Calais
Whenever I go to the market at Hesdin which I love thanks to its wonderful location, I pass a little white chapel at the ...
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My French Life: Home to France and Fred the stalker goose
I’ve been away from home for three days and just writing that has made me realise that although I still have a foot in the ...
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My French Life: Julia Child – the French Chef
I discovered Julia Child just a few months ago after several decades of being completely unaware of her existence. From this you may deduce I ...
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My French Life: Rain rain go away…
It’s a blue day today – not blue skies – a blue feeling day. It’s rained every day now for four weeks. Here in ...
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Oh la la – my faux pas…
Not very far from where I live, there’s a tiny village, quite pretty with a handful of houses along the side of the road which ...
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My French Life: How did those geese get there?
A couple of weeks ago, my neighbour Remy popped round to say “bonjour”, and on discovering that we had run out of wood and it ...
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My French Life: I’ve become an empty-nester
Six weeks ago we decided to get some chicks from the local Gamm Vert store. Since Eaglet the Confused Chicken who started life as a ...
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My French Life: My chefing is improving
I had guests staying at the weekend so I decided to have a bit of a bake up and make Grandma Flo’s Dundee cake and ...
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Lily of the Valley on May Day in France
My sister came to stay at the weekend and she brought her granddaughter Lily with her. Lily’s name sake is the lily of the valley ...
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