I drove Caiti down to Guéret today to get her back to school. She went down with something nasty at the weekend. She’s not 100% by any means but she didn’t want to miss all of her bac blanc (mock Bac) exams. Poor thing, she spent her 18th birthday full of disease and antibiotics on [...] [...]
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I’m still not up to full blogging power so another quickie today. I’ve blogged before about the misleading received wisdom that women don’t get fat in France. They do! However, it is true that the world’s skinniest person was French, and he was born on this day, April 10th (although some sources say 17 April) [...] [...] The French village of Pincé in Normandy has got it right. The Maire is proposing to supply two chickens to every household that wants them in a bid to cut down on organic waste. Chickens eat up to 150 kg of food a year. That’s a lot of leftovers they could be converting into eggs [...] [...] Palm Sunday started on Saturday with a rare service at our 12th century church, St Clair’s, in Nouzerines. It’s seldom open so we make sure we go to every event that’s held there to show our support for this wonderful building. The service was taken entirely by lay preachers. In generally pedantic and rule-following France, that [...] [...] |
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