Dans Les Bois - In The Woods
Woods are magical places where people fall in love with the wrong people (Midsummer’s Night Dream), Chaucer’s Wife of Bath finds a...
English words, French words, Learning words
Words are some of my favourite things. I like talking, listening, writing, reading. I enjoy the shape and history of words, thinking...
ME & Me
Recently I have ‘shared’ various posts on Facebook about ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, adding something about my own experience of this...
The Story of a French Farmhouse
I have been reunited with my house in the Lot-et-Garonne after four months away. My in-laws, a wonderfully funny, warm and welcoming...
Snow
I first put on a pair of skis seven days after my 41st birthday and one day after my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. This year...
The Dog Ate my Homework
I am very aware I haven't written anything here for ages and ages. I have a good excuse. I have been writing and for the first time ever...
Entre Saison
In the Alps, the French describe this period of time (Autumn) as "l'entre saison", namely between seasons, out of season, off season. Of...
Silence in France
At the end of August we did our annual canoe trip along the Dordogne River. We camp on public land (any land which can be flooded by the...
Results, Ramses II and "Dead Poet's Society"
Today A Level results have come out. My A2 student texted me from LA to tell me she had got the grades she needed to go to NYU. I am...
