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Double Johnnies

He’s a national icon, as French as a Camembert cheese or the Eiffel Tower itself; Johnny Halliday is France, […]

July 11, 2016 Culture, Employement, France, Fun, Heritage, Paris, Retirement, Rock 'n' Roll, Work

Coming Home

There are those times, when current times, retrench you back into old and reassuring books to cope with […]

July 3, 2016 Brexit, Britain, Culture, Ex-pat, History

Anarchy in the UK or Is there Eurovision after Brexit?

Bored of the Brexit? YES – wall-to-wall news coverage of nothing else for the last week., and of […]

July 3, 2016 Brexit, Culture, Economy, Europe, Ex-pat, Heritage, History, Holidays, Music, Revolution, Rock 'n' Roll, Time Travel

Hats Off to Happy Chatty Civil Servants.

So, my offspring is eighteen, that age at which I said I would enquire into getting her British […]

June 30, 2016 administration, Brexit, Culture, Europe, Ex-pat, Family, France, French, Heritage, Life, nationality, Uncategorized

Hats Off to Happy Chatty Civil Servants.

So, my offspring is eighteen, that age at which I said I would enquire into getting her British […]

June 30, 2016 administration, Culture, Europe, Ex-pat, Family, France, French, Heritage

Gentlemen and Hooligans

Gentlemen and Hooligans Or Unstructured Thoughts on a Very British Exit 23 June 2016 Britain votes to leave […]

June 25, 2016 Brexit, Culture, Employement, Europe, Ex-pat, France, French, Health, Heritage, History, London, nationality, Religion, Revolution, TERRORISM, Time Travel, Uncategorized, Work

Up a Nun’s Fanny (with no lubricant)

To all would-be writers. Beware of overusing and abusing the alliterative device. The machine-gun like overdeployment of too […]

June 17, 2016 Culture, Death, Economy, Employement, Farming, France, French, politics, Religion, Revolution, Wine

Rock In Spring and Thoughts on Bands

A Sunday morning stroll down the supermarket. God might give us this day our daily bread, but he […]

April 10, 2016 Barbecue, Bourges, Café, Culture, France, French, Life, Military, Music, Rock 'n' Roll, Shopping, Small town, Smoking, Spring, Tourism, TRAVEL, Weather

Stranger on a Wet Tuesday Morning.

Long time, no blog. Caught up with work and life and such like. Casting a dubious eye across […]

April 5, 2016 administration, Culture, Europe, Ex-pat, France, French, Life, nationality, Work

In The S***, Sex Friends and Fig In The Channel

Absent from the blog again. Two weeks away. Reasons? A spot of serious paid writing and a few […]

March 4, 2016 Culture, Economy, Employement, Europe, Farming, Food, France, French, Life, Money, politics, Sex, Small town

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