It’s been a while since the last post. I’ve been busy with a renovation project and I’ve been on holiday (which I needed after lugging plasterboard, etc up and down ladders!).
Anyway, I don’t have a great deal of news, seems I’ve been too wrapped up in my own stuff to pay much attention to France [...]
OK, so it’s not exactly an online French class – you can’t answer back or pass notes to each other – but I hope this little insight into French beer will give you a slightly better command of the language. It will help you get a drink too!
La bière is what we’re talking about. French [...]
My friend Jeff has written a book about buying a house in France – or a French farmhouse – or whatever. It’s appropriate if you are looking for a French renovation project too.
Jeff has allowed me to take some extracts from his book so I thought I would do posts every so often giving you [...]
One of the biggest problems I have had with learning to speak French is the sex!
I don’t mean anything dirty or smutty here – I mean the fact that when you’re learning to speak French you need to remember that everything is either masculine or feminine. It’s either le (male) or la (female) for “the” [...]
One of the curiosities of living in France that we’ve found frustrating is the delivery of things like fridges and washing machines. Actually the same applies to building materials but that’s kind of different…
When you buy things like fridges, freezers and the like in the UK, you normally get free delivery if you spend over [...]
French kissing – the sort that the French do rather than the other sort – seems to have gotten a bit of a bad rap. To hear people talk it’s hardly safe to go out in public without some French person rushing up and plastering you with kisses. Male, female, young, old…
The truth, as usual, [...]
Sometimes these posts will be full of useful stuff about living in France, working here, French wine, anything really. Other times it’ll just be something I feel like saying. Hey, it’s my blog after all
A typical French view?
Today’s words of wisdom (or waffle) are the later. Why did I choose to live [...]
So, does the world really need another blog about an English-speaking ex pat living in France and coping with all that French stuff?
Probably not, but I’m going to do it anyway. Partly because I feel like it, partly because not everyone tells you all of the truth all of the time.
This blog isn’t going to [...]