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Category Archive: Holidays

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

The Joys of Summer

Summer Sludge A Discourse on Shorts Summer Pleasures and Holiday Colours Summer is … A word on the […]

July 24, 2016 Ageing, Alcohol, Barbecue, Café, Culture, France, French, Fun, Holidays, Life, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL, Weather, Wine

Plaisirs d’été (good and bad at art)

Good or bad at art? Back in my school days – the dim and distant past, the criteria […]

July 24, 2016 Art, Holidays, summer, TRAVEL

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

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

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

Rambling Thoughts on Summer fashions for Men (nearing 50)

Midweek Summer Morning in my Local Supermarket. I am pushing on fifty and I look exactly like all […]

August 22, 2015 Ageing, Fashion, Holidays, Rock 'n' Roll, Shopping, summer

Thoughts on Holidays in the Vendée or Sitting In An Aquarium as the Good Lord Mocketh

After crossing a creative desert, an encouter with the Messiah in a traffic jam during a deluge has […]

August 22, 2015 Autumn, France, Holidays, Motoring, Religion, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL, Weather

The Lost Post

A few lost thoughts Lost is Not knowing where you are: having gone astray or bewildered as to […]

August 1, 2015 Holidays, Life, Motoring, Paris, Philosophy, Shopping, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL, Work

Home

Back from my vacation. A few thoughts on driving back to that place we call home – or simply […]

July 25, 2015 France, Holidays, Motoring, photography, TRAVEL

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