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Category Archive: French

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

Of Death, Bankers, Black Sabbath and Oversize Anoraks.

I doubt if Black Sabbath singer, Ozzy Osbourne will ever go down in history as a great philosopher, […]

November 1, 2015 Ageing, Cemetery, Death, Family, France, French, Life, Money, Rock 'n' Roll

The Café Pump.

Out and about again on an autumn drive looking for clichés of real France – Here is the […]

October 31, 2015 Autumn, Café, Culture, France, French, Heritage

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

A Wheel-Less Giveaway.

My poor old wheel barrow. It had served me well, and now it was unfit for use. The […]

May 25, 2015 Culture, Economy, France, French, Gardening, Money, Philosophy, Shopping, Wine

When May Cometh, Do what Thee Liketh

Another public holiday (hooray). The French get no less than four publicholidays in May May 1st – May […]

May 14, 2015 Culture, Economy, Employement, France, French, Fun, Holidays, Home improvement, Religion, Shopping, Teaching

Parisian Daze

Paris, City of light, city of love, us poor provincials do occasionally manage to get up to the […]

March 14, 2015 Ageing, Culture, France, French, Fun, Life, Music, Paris, Philosophy, Rock 'n' Roll, Tourism, TRAVEL, Wine

Back to Normal – (unfinished flag-waving thoughts)

Back too normal? We’re not all as « Charlie » as we were. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo […]

January 30, 2015 Culture, Food, France, French

Chez Charlie (bis)

Wednesday 14th January 2015. Exactly a week after tragic events that rocked and shocked France. It is January […]

January 14, 2015 Crime, Culture, Education, France, French, History, Life, Paris, Work

CHEZ CHARLIE

Events of récent days have left me confused and pensive. There was no point in giving a day-by-day […]

January 11, 2015 Crime, Death, France, French, History, Life, TERRORISM

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