Marching On

It looks like winter might finally be over. It’s been another long one, and our coldest and snowiest to date. We pretty much exhausted our wood supplies so it’s time to start building up a store for next year.
However, a few more things to do first. We’re almost there on the gite renovation. That’s been [...]

The Free Press – French and English

We’re lucky in Creuse in that we have not one, but two free English language papers to read each month.
The first is Creuse News (www.creuse-news.eu), which is an A4 size magazine, printed in black and white. It’s the brainchild of Julia Dunbar and began in October 2007. It’s going great guns and is well known [...]

Wise Words for March

Here are some traditional French sayings from the 1932 and 1933 copies of La Prosperité à la Campagne magazine.
Autant de brouillard en mars – autant de gel en avril
There’ll be as much frost in April as there is fog in March.
(A saying from the South-West)
Autant de brouillard en mars – autant d’orages en été
There’ll [...]