Cheese on Tuesday – Camembert

I’d meant to talk about Boursin this week, but since I came across this in the sales at the weekend, I decided it had to be Camembert.
Isn’t it cool? It’s specially designed with those movable plastic bits inside to conserve your Camembert and help it ripen properly by retaining its odour.
So, onto the cheese itself. [...]

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 [...]

Beautiful bonnets – but what to do with them?

Amongst the many things we found in the attic here at Les Fragnes when we moved in were lots of baby clothes. In particular there were dozens of baby bonnets. I washed them all but for five years they’ve been languishing in a sack in the barn. They’re too lovely to leave hidden away for [...]

Fête de la St Valentin

St Valentine’s Day has lots of associations with France. It’s thought that the idea of sending Valentine’s cards started with the Duke of Orleans in the fifteenth century. He was captured during the Battle of Agincourt and taken to the Tour of London. He sent love letters and poems to his young wife. But even [...]