Greetings and salutations, dear reader! After a record-breaking year of radio silence, I have been drawn out of hibernation by popular demand (of one aunt). I am alive and well, just busy with not much time to write about what... Continue Reading →
Would it be the last week of December without a long overdue attempt to catch up on everything of mild interest since the last blog post? I think not! So without further ado... SUMMER August in France = summer, and... Continue Reading →
Il est là! The lockdown chronicles! Though we're by no means out of the woods, I thought it was high time I write about the lockdown experience in France, which seems like a lifetime ago now. The scene Like most... Continue Reading →
Running round like a headless chicken, with a million things to do and time running out, must be time to ignore all my responsibilities and write a life update! September September was pretty unremarkable, marked mostly by getting back into... Continue Reading →
Hi friends, Time for the quarterly update that I am in fact alive and kicking; the usual combo of life being busy with routine, and a few exciting things happening here and there. Without further ado, here's the highlights reel... Continue Reading →
Excuse the excessively cheesy title but it really is the theme of this post (look at me, not only knocking out another post in a timely manner, but managing to work in a theme??) September is always the time of... Continue Reading →
Where were we? June Not quite on holiday yet, but not working a whole lot either, June was a month of long weekends. The longest of which was five days in La Flèche to visit friends I had befriended on... Continue Reading →
La rentrée is such a handy term in French. It means, by default, the return to school after the summer holidays, thereafter any return to school after any holiday, or indeed any return to anything. So I had my rentrée... Continue Reading →
As the title suggests, this is a bit of a rewind to cover the various little events worth noting since my last regular post in January. Waitangi Day Way way back at the beginning of February it was Waitangi Day, New... Continue Reading →
La grande aventure lyonnaise de Catherine 