Kitchen Capers

My kitchen is currently chaotic. You’ll remember from this post that I’m currently undergoing training in food hygiene. The trainer will be visiting me next Thursday to draw up a plan on how we can manage kitchen cleanliness when making meals for our visitors. So Chris and I have been doing some long planned kitchen [...]

Last Minute Halloween

Halloween this year is a rather last minute affair. That’s unusual for us. With our Irish background, we adore the festival and usually go slightly over the top with it. But there have been too many trips to Limoges recently and various other events cropping up so we’ve been short of time. However, we did [...]

Rentrée Countdown Continued

Rentrée Day (R) – 8: Definitely time to check that you’ve got bus passes for your children if they’re using la ramassage scolaire (school transport), and that you have the timetable. Ours all arrived a week or so ago. Rors doesn’t have a bus pass for his primary school transport. That’s organised and funded by [...]

E-Organisation

I had a computer crisis during the week. Thunderbird, my email program, suddenly stopped working. Chris patiently spent an afternoon sorting the problem out, and in the end installed a new program, Opera, instead. Opera happily uploaded the 30,000 emails in my archives. 30,000?!? I couldn’t believe it. Now, there do appear to be two [...]