Did you know that there is a right (and a wrong) time to cut your hair? And that your jam keeps better if it’s made at a certain time of the month? It has apparently all to do with the moon. If you want your hair to grow thick and fast you should have it [...]
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La Lune… and its effect on the French
Posted in Living in rural France... on December 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A RETRO Sunday…
Posted in Living in rural France... on December 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A VIDE-GRENIER is a sort of amateur flea market. They have them all over France every Sunday – most villages offering just one in spring and one in autumn. It literally means empty-the-attic and that is exactly what people do, displaying everything they no longer have a need for, in the hope that someone else [...]
Of birds and bees….
Posted in Living in rural France... on May 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
There is always lots of cheerful whistling going on in Mirepeisset but these days there’s no getting away from it. This time it is NOT just Robert singing and whistling his happy heart out. Everyone is at it now. Day and night, night and day, in the streets and in the trees, in the shade [...]
After rain…
Posted in Living in rural France... on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
… comes sunshine. As many as several thousands of households in the surrounding villages of Bize and Cuxac were affected last week when 250mm of rain fell in 3 days. Despite preventative sandbagging, many basements flooded, but it was in no way as serious as in 1999 when in villages like Salleles d’Aude houses were [...]
After 4 days of rain….
Posted in Living in rural France... on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
…. there was quite a bit of water around! These are photos taken 2 days ago…
Before and after…
Posted in Living in rural France..., The trials of renovation... on October 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Six years on, and I now have pictures of before and after the renovations…
Selling Mountpleasant
Posted in Living in rural France... on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is a copy of an article I wrote for the Irish Times in 2005, just before selling our beautiful Georgian home in Dublin’s Mountpleasant Square. And just before I moved to the South of France to run a cookery school… Selling up on the square after all these years – Irish Times, 24 March [...]
The beginning… restoring a house in the south of France
Posted in Living in rural France... on November 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Well hello there, and welcome to my new blog – a diary from the Languedoc. I have lived in this sunny part of the Europe for the last 4 years. It hasn’t been all a bed of roses (there was an issue with termites at the start, which I shall relate later), but it has [...]
