Best of Blog in France … Download It For Free!

Best of Blog in France is here! In fact, here at Smashwords to be precise. It’s my selection of the best posts and photos from the first two years of Blog in France. Yes, I’ve been blogging since July 2009, although only very intermittently to start with. Signing up for the WordPress Post a Day [...]

La Mode Pratique 11.11.1911 – Fur, Dowries, Patterns and Potions

The weather is wonderful at the moment, definitely the nicest French November that we can remember. So we took advantage of it yesterday to some sorting out in the barn. Our barn is huge and has become a bit of a dumping ground for, well, everything. It was getting out of control so well overdue [...]

Five Years in France

August 13th marked five years in France for the Daggs. Wow! So to celebrate the occasion, here are 13 photos from those early days in August 2006. I think you’ll find them fascinating, especially if you’ve ever done anything similar, or are planning to.
It’s been quite an adventure. I wonder what the next five years [...]

Good Reading from 1909

Old magazine time again. We have quite a pile of Les Bonnes Lectures (Good Reading) from 1909 which I had never given much attention to, until today. Since it’s April, I started browsing through the April edition to see what good people were reading about 102 years ago.
Les Bonnes Lectures announces itself to be a [...]