Taking your pet to France from the UK is not that difficult if you know the requirements. There is a lot of conflicting information on the internet about what type of animal you can and can’t take to France from the UK what medical treatment you need to prove and what medication for your pet [...]
So, I’ve been away from home for three days and just writing that has made me realise that although I still have a foot in the UK I really am feeling that France is actually home now.
There’s a goat farm not far from me in the little village of Boubers in the Seven Valleys region of Pas-de-Calais and so far this year 25 baby goats have been born there.
I’ve told you about Churchill the German Pinscher, Ella Fitzerald the Spaniel who became a German Shepherd, Winston the stray kitten who was attacked by his mum and ‘Enry Cooper the stray kitten that turned up on the door step and wouldn’t leave!
Don’t believe anyone who tells you that you have to watch out on behalf of the cat when you’ve got dogs. This just isn’t the case in our house where the cats are very firmly in control as this sequence of events shows!
It’s a bit of a miserable grey day today but ‘Enry Cooper the cat has been cheering us up in the garden. We’ve been working on the new chicken pen which is hopefully big enough to keep the girls and Eaglet happy so that I can feel comfortable shutting them in. At the moment they roam [...]
I’ve told you about the first three animals we got – Winston the stray kitten, Churchill the Doberman Pinscher who turned out to be a German Ppinscher and Ella Fitzgerald the Spaniel that turned into a German Shepherd cross. We had a bit of calm after that but six months later I returned from one [...]
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Well, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that the sheep across the road has gone to the great pasture in the sky. When I bought my house nine years ago it came with a sheep! The lady who owned the house before me had let the man across the road [...]
The allure of the good life in France and the charms of the beautiful town of Beziers ensnared British expat Mark Binmore who runs the highly successful Maison de l’Orb, a beautiful B&B. Mark told us that he lived in London since the early 1990s, worked as a pub landlord for several breweries, is the [...]
Expats in France Donna and Dave Faulkner fell in love with Deux-Sevres in the Poitou-Charentes region when they visited friends who lived there. When Dave was unexpectedly offered a job – they said goodbye to Britain and jumped head first into life in France in their new home which needed a bit of renovation as [...]
British expat Sue Aitken lives in south west France and runs Blackhen Education – a business that she set up after planning to move to Spain to be a teacher. She and her partner travelled through France on their way to jobs and a life in Spain but they fell in love with [...]
How two Brits met and changed their lives with a move to France… Chris was a veteran of 30 years in the Metropolitan police, running his own outdoor activity business specializing in mountain biking, walking and climbing, father to three grown-up children and mentor to many more. Charlotte was a classic single “Social Butterfly”, [...]
I was recently asked to write about expats in France, people who leave their homes in all areas of the world to go to France to live. I thought back over the years about the many expats I’ve met, interviewed (I am a journalist not just a crazy person going round firing questions at [...]
It’s good to know some things stay the same When my mother bought her holiday house in northern France 35 years ago, I had no idea how large a part this lovely country was going to play in my life. I was eleven at the time, and simply enjoyed the trips across the Channel [...]
As you might know by now, I cannot resist a French flea market and the one I went to on Sunday on my French countryside jaunt was particularly small and not great but on the last stall in the road there was a cage with a cockerel. The sign said “Cockerel Nagasaki €5.00”. The [...]
