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I hope you had a good Christmas. Here in my house Christmas Day was a quiet and peaceful time for the most part. The animals got some treats and I took the dogs for an extra walk late at night. Where I live, the roads are not lit by street lamps and at night it’s […]

Bonjour Hope you had a good week, not too fraught with last minute shopping and rushing about. Here in my corner of rural France there isn’t a great deal of razzmatazz, there aren’t hundreds of lights on houses or in the streets, in fact, you could drive through my village and you wouldn’t even know

Bonjour Hope you had a good week… Last week I went to the Fete de la Dinde, the Turkey Festival, in lovely Licques, northern France. It’s a tiny town surrounded by the most glorious rural countryside, truly idyllic and largely unknown to tourism. The festival was as brilliant as ever with a huge market, stalls

Bonjour Hope you had a great week! Here in my village in the middle-of-nowhere France I am apparently the talk of the town because of my ducks. Last week my neighbours came to dinner and mentioned that one of my Barbary ducks had flown into their garden. They were astonished they said, they have never

Bonjour! Brrrr it’s been a chilly week here in France reaching -7 deg C (20Deg F) mid week. It’s time to check my ducks don’t get their feet stuck to the cold mud! I’ve never seen that myself but my neighbour assures me it can happen and that several times he’s had to chisel his ducks

Bonjour Hope you had a great week! Last week I wrote saying that I’d had a few issues with my website because it has so many visitors which is just brilliant, but it made it fall over! After several hours of stress and phone calls to the company that hosts my website, I was told “it’s

Bonjour Hope you had a good week.  Most of my life revolves around my animals, renovating my old farmhouse, travelling round France and writing. This week though I’ve had a few strange moments. On Tuesday Brad Pitt applied to join my Google+ community page. Of course it isn’t the real one though he claims to

Bonjour and bienvenue! Hope you had a good week. It’s still sunny and dry here where I am in the north of France, though yesterday morning we had a thick frost and the water was frozen in the hose pipe so I had to fetch buckets of water from the kitchen for the chickens, ducks

Bonjour Well it’s nearly Halloween in France and this year more than ever this quirky event seems to have been taken to heart by the French. I can remember a few years ago, you wouldn’t even know it was happening but now every shop seems to be decked out with festive spider webs and talking

Bonjour! Hope you had a good week. Here in my little corner of northern France it’s still quite warm and I’ve even got blossom on my apple tree! It’s had my neighbour scratching his head. He was quite sure that we would have a long hard winter starting in October. Over a cup of coffee with