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Category Archive: Christmas

Pea Soup and Sacrifice (and shopping)

PEA SOUP « F*** me, it’s a real pea souper this morning. Can’t even hardly see to the end […]

November 13, 2016 Autumn, Bourges, Cemetery, Christmas, Culture, Death, deepest france, Economy, Ex-pat, Food, France, French, Halloween, Holidays, Life, Military, Paris, Shopping, Weather

Forgetting those Summer Daze.

Those sure signs that summer is finally here – those iconic, traditional events, local and national, marking the […]

July 7, 2016 Bourges, Christmas, Family, Food, France, French, Holidays, Life, summer, Weather

Days

The festive frolics over: the magic of Christmas melted away faster than a snowball in a microwave oven. […]

January 5, 2016 Café, Christmas, Death, France, French, Small town, TERRORISM

The Worst Sunday of the Year

‘Tis the worst Sunday of the year – that last drab, depressing and doom laden dominical limbo before […]

January 3, 2016 Ageing, Christmas, Education, Employement, Holidays, Life

Morning After

Not a post for those of a delicate post party disposition Oh to be young again, when the […]

January 1, 2016 Alcohol, Christmas, Food, Fun, Health, Life, Poetry, Toilets

Festive French Stuffing

Christmas !!!!! Humbug and balderdash !!!!!! The Sunday before Christmas – the shops are open and the world has gone […]

December 21, 2015 Christmas, Cooking, Culture, Economy, Family, France, French, Heritage, Shopping

Frontline France, Bread and the Contents of a Woman’s Handbag

More simplistic and misspelt ramblings of life in France. It was French playwright, Jean Anouilh, who, in an […]

November 20, 2015 Christmas, Crime, Culture, Death, Employement, Family, France, French, Heritage, History, Life, Paris, politics, Religion, TERRORISM, Time Travel, Uncategorized

Why They Don’t Burn Guys in France

Of Christmas Lights and Flip Flops An unseasonably warm late autumn weekend in small-town France – a brief […]

November 8, 2015 Café, Christmas, France, French, Heritage, History, Military, Paris, Religion, summer, TERRORISM, Weather, Weekend

Taking Tea with Satan

A chance encounter with Satan over a cup of tea. Just another normal day in small town France […]

October 29, 2015 Autumn, Christmas, Employement, Food, Life, Smoking

The Slow Decline Into Christmas

Don’t know about your part of the world, but Christmas seems to come earlier every year. We get […]

October 25, 2015 Christmas, Culture, France, French, Heritage, History, Religion

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