I always find it a bit of a slog to blog in summer. It’s not for lack of things to write about – summer is our busiest time. The trekking season has got underway, our gite and lakes have had clients since March and are booked through to October, we’ve celebrated the end of term [...]
Springing Into Life
It’s well and truly spring here in Creuse. How do we know? Here are 11 sure signs:
Here are some traditional French sayings from the 1932 and 1933 copies of La Prosperité à la Campagne magazine.
Autant de brouillard en mars – autant de gel en avril
There’ll be as much frost in April as there is fog in March.
(A saying from the South-West)
Autant de brouillard en mars – autant d’orages en été
There’ll [...]
So it’s Fat Tuesday – that’s what Mardi Gras means. What a great name. Traditionally it marks the last day of the ‘carnaval’ period that began at Epiphany and which ends with Lent (Carême). Quite who would have been celebrating all that while I’m not sure. Certainly not the ordinary people who would have been [...]