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Floating Around With the Garlic Whale

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    Some unpublished Holiday memories   Summer time and the living is easy, unless you are looking […]

July 30, 2018 Culture, Family, France, Fun, Holidays, Life, photography, seaside, Stress, Tourism, TRAVEL, Travel writing, Uncategorized, writing

Dog Daze

Around 38°c outside – long hot early summer Sunday. All the world is locked away in semi darkness […]

July 1, 2018 Life, lyrics, summer

Rubbish

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I specialise in rubbish – Rubbish makes good art and plenty of art is rubbish. We load up […]

May 13, 2018 Art, junk, Life, photography, rubbish, Uncategorized

MAN 68

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Looking back through old adverts from May 1968. Here are a few of those ads you could have […]

May 1, 2018 1968, Alcohol, Culture, DIY, France, French, Gardening, Heritage, History, Home improvement, Life, nostalgia, Revolution, Smoking, Time Travel, Uncategorized, underwear, Weekend

Is There Life on Mars?

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There’s no life on Mars. I know. I’ve been there. Photos of those parts of France that the […]

April 15, 2018 administration, Cemetery, countryside, Death, deepest france, drifting, Economy, French Village, Ghosts, Life, Paris, photography, politics, Provincial France, Road trip, Small town, Time Travel, TRAVEL, Uncategorized

It’s a Saturday Thing

Snug under the duvet, you open one eye and stare lazily at the world. Slowly wake up and […]

January 27, 2018 drifting, Ex-pat, Family, Home, Life, Saturday, Uncategorized, Weekend, Wine

Red white and blue and blue white and red

This year that I am French Is nationality a pièce of paper or a state of mind ?– as […]

January 7, 2018 Brexit, Britain, Culture, deepest france, Europe, Ex-pat, France, French, Heritage, Life, nationality, Provincial France, Small town, Weather, Work

Was It Ever Like That?

Was It Ever Like That? Ex-pat reflections on the Christmas that never was gleaned from collective memy The […]

December 22, 2017 Britain, Christmas, Ex-pat, France, Fun, Ghosts, Life, London, Music, rubbish, TRAVEL, Uncategorized

Sick Again

Seasonal tradition – the pre-festive flu   Body aching like I’ve been thrown several times against a wall. […]

December 6, 2017 Ageing, Cemetery, Christmas, Death, Health, Holidays, Life, TV, Weekend, Work

Teenage Moonage or (How a song came to be written)

« I had a teenage dream, On moonage days, I’d be a freak out far out, In a purple haze, Cruising […]

November 19, 2017 Ageing, Art, Culture, drifting, Ghosts, Life, lyrics, Poetry, Rock 'n' Roll, Saturday night, Small town

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