A Song for Europe

As a self-confessed and beyond-help Eurovision junkie, I couldn’t resist buying Simon Lipson’s A Song for Europe. I stumbled across it by accident when I was messing with my Kindle one evening. I punched in Eurovision to see what it would come up with. Would you believe 12 items? Actually, 8 of them appear to [...]

Dog Gone Blog

Actually, it’s not – fortunately – but it might have been. And I like the title! (You might remember the Dog Blog of a few months ago.) A thunderstorm on Wednesday night, but nothing like as bad as Monday’s humdinger though, freaked our dog Nessie out and she ran away. At least that is what [...]

You Know You’re Fully Frenchified When …

You may be an ex-pat, but you know you’re as French as you’ll ever be when:

It no longer even occurs to you to go shopping at lunchtime.

You dunk your croissant in your coffee.
You shrug at least ten times during every conversation.
You blame everything on Parisians.
You actually enjoy French television programmes.
You wouldn’t dream of coming back [...]

Cop Out Blog

I hope it doesn’t seem too much of a cop out, but I’m going to point you in the direction of my Books Are Cool blog today. I’ve been beavering away on that this last week. There are some more book reviews up, details about some more of my books and plenty of new posts, [...]