Thursday 22nd November I’m back! Not from outer space like Gloria Gaynor, (although I have been told that I look a little boggle eyed first thing in the morning), but from a blog holiday. Summer…
Sunday 6th May Nake! There’s a nake on my step and Olivier is working!! It looks vicious! I’ve taken a photo of it (from a distance – it was clearly poised to pounce!) and have…
Thursday 19th April It’s a funny thing about moving to another country because all the things that you were desperate to get your hands on and your gob round become ordinary. Bread is an example.…
SUNDAY 4TH MARCH Today has turned quite windy, ’tho dry and sunny but yesterday was yet another in a long line of beautiful days in the P-O and my last day of stuffing my face…
Friday 3rd February Aie! Ca caille, ça pèle…. It is decidedly chilly at the moment – well into the minuses I am told, although here in my toasty office, I can’t feel a thing. It’s dry and…
Monday 9th January 2012 This is today, right here, right now, just taken from the end of the garden. Yes, yes, it really is. Isn’t it amazing? We are so blessed, waking up to sunshine…
December 16th What can I say about December so far? Fantastic? Warm, dry, sunny, fresh, envigorating…… absolutely delicious? The leaves are only just beginning to fall off the trees around Maureillas, the world still clothed in…
Monday 20th November Wet, wet, wet! To say it’s raining would be a bit of an understatement. Whamming, pelting and wazzing it down seems to describe it quite well. Flooding, flowing, gushing, rushing, spilling, spouting,…
Sunday October 2nd It’s a blazing hot summer day outside, more like June or July, so I’ll be brief, a few quick words before I thrust myself back onto the Dad-entertainment circuit and head off…
Monday 19th September There’s snow on the Canigou – Whooooppppeeeeeee Wow! There’s snow on the Canigou! After a day of heavy rains yesterday, (the day I brought my Papa back from Leeds for a spot of…