Category: My French Life

The other half volunteered last week to help me in the garden – with the rotavating.  I nearly fell off my chair in surprise – ...

About this time the commitees of different villages in the Seven Valleys area in Pas-de-Calais start to meet and think about the straw sculpture competition ...

Remy, my neighbour who knows everything told us when we got chickens that we’d have to cut their wings to stop them flying! I’ve never ...

When you live in France or visit, it’s really clear from the amount of boulangeries (bakeries) there are and the amount of French people you ...

Someone asked me the other day if there were any major cultural differences between expats and the French and actually when I think about it ...

I’ve told you about Churchill the German Pinscher, Ella Fitzerald the Spaniel who became a German Shepherd, Winston the stray kitten who was attacked by his ...

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that you have to watch out on behalf of the cat when you’ve got dogs. This just isn’t the ...

A survey apparently revealed some startling statistics: one in 10 (13 per cent) of under 35s who replied didn’t not know that Paris is in ...

Sometimes life is a bit strange out here in rural France. I was sitting, relaxing last night when Ella the German shepherd who’s meant to ...

It’s a bit of a miserable grey day today but ‘Enry Cooper the cat has been cheering us up in the garden. We’ve been working on ...