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Category Archive: summer

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

Polaroid Collages

What o do on hot days when you are living out the heat in shuttered darkness – get […]

July 20, 2016 Art, drifting, summer

Looking for Luçay le Libre

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After the events on Bastille Day in Nice, I decided to head off into the French countryside and […]

July 20, 2016 Café, countryside, Culture, Death, deepest france, drifting, driving, Economy, Environment, Farming, France, French, French Village, History, Life, Rural Life, 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

What I will NOT miss about school (now that my daughter has left)

“School’s out for summer” sang the Coop, but “School’s out forever” for some kids, including my daughter, who […]

July 7, 2016 Education, Family, France, French, Life, school, summer

Four German Maidens, Burnt Toast and Burt Reynolds

Avant Propos Yes, I have been away for a while, real life catching up with me, a touch […]

February 15, 2016 Alcohol, Café, Culture, Family, Food, France, French, Motoring, Music, Religion, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Smoking, summer, Time Travel, Toilets, TRAVEL, Wine

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

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

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