Lesley McLaren takes a quizzical look back over past articles – with a few extra questions thrown in for good measure!
P-O Life reader and contributor, James Trollope, bought an old photo album at auction and discovered a treasure trove…
Beware the Oleander shrub, popular in the P-O for its evergreen qualities and delicate flowers and planted in quantity to jazz up roadsides, and gardens.
Just when we think that summer is on its way!
The Cathar religion flourished greatly in Southern France during the 12th and 13th centuries.
Marie-Thérèse Figueur (1774 – 1861), nicknamed Mademoiselle Sans-Gêne (without shame), was one of the few French female soldiers to enlist in the French Revolutionary Army and fight in the Napoleonic Wars.
THIS WAS A APRIL FOOL. PLEASE FLUSH YOUR LOOS!!
Smart urinals’ in the ‘baños para hombres’ at Sants station
The former ‘Maison Mazard’ in Le Soler, now destroyed, was a safe house for Dutch refugees, Jews and resistance members fleeing the nazis in the 1930s.
Although its origins are a little hazy, many believe that the tradition of April Fool’s Day was actually born in France in the 16th century.