Monsieur J had a good job. He walked to work. Never had to get up too early. And his work was not stressful – meaning that there was plenty of time for a chat or a cigarette between each flamboyant sweep of autumn leaves… And lots time for pauses and stretches whilst tidying the communal [...]
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A good job… lost.
Posted in Living in rural France..., Village stories on March 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Porc or Porque?
Posted in Food stories, Village stories on August 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Nicola, a member of our professional food writers’ forum called Eatwords, (we call ourselves Eatworders), author and literary researcher, asked a food-related question yesterday… Help, please, literati… I have been given a manuscript to read. It’s a food history book, and is written in US. The author discusses French and Anglo Saxon [...]
the unexpected snow…
Posted in Village stories on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We know the French love their bread. We know that they cannot eat a meal without it. And we know they panic when they haven’t bought it by a quarter to lunchtime… But when we all thought it was summer 3 days ago (what, with the brilliant blue skies, temperatures up near the 20′s and [...]
Valentine in Mirepeisset
Posted in Village stories on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just recently, Mirepeisset’s Mayor Andre Ratia, sent an official letter to the Mayor of neighbouring village Ginestas, complaining that a few of their youths (who are courting some of our young girls) had been ‘impolite’ towards some elderly villagers. Not that they had used foul language or thrown stones or been brandishing weapons they shouldn’t [...]
Vendange 2009
Posted in Village stories on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the vendange 2009 is nearing its end, the air is heavy with the smell of fermenting grapes – a smell that throws me back to the early seventies when I tried making wine from elderberries, and the elation that came with it when the “bubbling’ had started. Only this time the smell is ten [...]
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