A corner of France

We continue our house-hunting efforts, looking for our retirement home, in the hope that we will sell our current place in the next five yea...

I'm not sure that the english translation of the french is quite as reassuring as it's supposed to be.  (Click to enlarge)

.. and what to do about them. We had a family group in the gîte this weekend, and the smokers all had the same design of fag case, but ...

About a week ago, the cat didn't come in in the morning.  This is unusual; he is a creature of habit.  Normally, he comes in, eats break...

I have an old Dell PC.  It was at the high end of the range when I bought it, but it's a bit old now.   It used to be my main desktop PC...

The slogan of the French Republic is Liberté, Egalité, Fraterinté ; loosely freedom, equality and brotherhood/solidarity.   These three wor...

It's been a bit hot recently, in case you hadn't noticed.  The car, left out in the sun, gets very hot inside, on account of the gre...