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My French Life: Guest Blog Artist Madeline – “My Louis, My Paris”

Madeline is an American artist who has a penchant for France, Paris and especially the history of Louis XIV. Her mother, a war bride, was ...
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Julia Childs' kitchen at The Smithsonian CC Flickr davidboeke

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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My French Life Le Cupidon

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 geese in the garden

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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My French Life: Remy to the Rescue

As its approaching May, we normally start to cut down the amount of heating that we need in the house. We don’t have central heating ...
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My French Life: A night on the tiles!

Normally, as I said to my friend Katt, when it comes to nightlife, bugger all goes on round here. Where I live, there are no ...
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