Several fraught phone calls later it seemed that our furniture was making slow progress through France in our direction. On the appointed day we received a phone call to say it was on its way up our hill. We ran outside to be confronted by two grumpy blokes sitting in a tiny van on the drive outside the house.

Améliorez votre anglais 8 Tongue twister (répetez rapidement au moins trois fois) She shall surely see the sun shine 1 Trouvez la bonne définition (Find the right definition) 1 heat wave 2 You can’t put…

Virelangue (tongue twister) Repeat rapidly at least three times Ces seize chats savent chanter 1. Match up the useful sayings 1. Something’s not quite right. 2. Heads or tails? 3. I always keep my word..…

Heading up to the ski slopes this winter? Spare a thought for the 60 or so ‘joncétois’, residents of Joncet who have watched 5000 vehicles per day, many of them lorries, thunder through the tiny village for many a ski season.

New garlic, available in the Spring, has a softer and less pungent flavour than the older, dried variety. The following recipe may well convert professed garlic haters, and the parsley in it is said to remove the odour from the breath.

According to the Indépendant of 12th January, a couple in  Sorède were amazed to see blossom on their cherry tree, followed by a few red cherries……in December. And more  have appeared  in January. Le monde…