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Some recommended reading: Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert . She’s done all the research on marriage that you could wish for. Nothing is new...

At long last it's my turn.  A bit of a quiet day for me as Rob is working and my children have all flown the nest.  Have a lovely da...

This week I went to the dentists for a checkup and one of my teeth has been aching again. The same one that hurt 7 months ago when I last w...

I don’t usually make pudding/desserts. There are normally plenty of pots of yoghurt and the like in the fridge. They really are the be...

Ten years ago!  You'll see that I hadn't quite got the hang of it.  I've arrived in blog land . Doesn't the time go quickl...

The weather here has been cold and wet. When we came back from the UK we needed to put the heating on again. It’s still on as I write. Ho...

I haven’t been blogging or visiting blogs much these past two weeks as we went for a week in the UK. It was our first visit home for 8 year...

When Olivier came out to lunch with us in Bordeaux a couple of weeks ago, he told us that he hadn’t explored that part of town. That weeken...

This post also appears on my Affiliate blog: In the last couple of days when we’ve been rolling over our announcements on eBay and also c...

A couple of weeks ago I started getting calls and messages on my phone from a number I didn’t know. The messages were in French teenage-spe...