It was the standard government bad news envelope – « Republique Française » stamped high up in the left hand […]
Category Archive: Ex-pat
I love my satellite TV – over 300 channels and I can still say (hand on heart) that […]
25 years ago, when I moved from London, to my provincial French bubble, keeping up with events in […]
After 26 years living in France, I can confirm that joie de vivre is not a French thing […]
FREEDOM! screams a huge banner headline from the front page of the Daily Mail. Freedom ? Freedom from what ? […]
The French call it « Gouter », which for want of a better translation would be « teatime » in English, however, […]
PEA SOUP « F*** me, it’s a real pea souper this morning. Can’t even hardly see to the end […]
There are those times, when current times, retrench you back into old and reassuring books to cope with […]
Bored of the Brexit? YES – wall-to-wall news coverage of nothing else for the last week., and of […]
So, my offspring is eighteen, that age at which I said I would enquire into getting her British […]
Chez Nick 