Thursday 9th November Amazing! This weather is something I will never get used to! Only 46 shopping days left to Christmas, and I have spent the day outside in the garden in shorts and t…
Jonathan tells of the next stages after the grape picking…. The harvest went very well, considering we had only completed the refrigeration system the day before and didn’t have any electricity on the first morning!…
Monday 2nd October It’s October! Whatever happened to September? The weather has been quite un-extraordinary this month – showers and storms mixed in with sun, hot days and warm evenings. The vines have mostly been…
Tuesday 5th September I’m running out of superlatives to describe the weather so I’ll just leave it to your imagination. Suffice to say that it is unquestionably Mediterranean. The builders started back with a vengeance…
Test your French 4 1 Match up these idiomatic sayings 1. Ça me prend la tête! 2. Je m’en mords les doigts 3. Arrête de tourner autour du pot 4. J’ai d’autres chats…
We were particularly excited about this visit – firstly because we were going to see what the builder had done with the ground floor – he had been working on it while we were in…
If you go down to the woods today… APRIL 2006 Four communes in the Pyrenees are to receive ‘delivery’ of five Slovenian brown bears, four females and a male, who will be…
Wednesday 1st February After several days of distinctly un-south-of-Francish weather, the sun is out, the sky is blue and Spring is in the air. It is quite amazing how the temperature can change so drastically…
Thursday March 2nd Well, here we are in March and spring has nearly sprung, fairly warm with sunny periods and mimosa and almond blossom around every corner, still a little unsure of itself but growing…
If you are thinking of buying or already own French property via a French civil property-holding company (‘SCI’) now is the time to consider or review the effect of French law and tax. Don’t leave…