Anji Patchwork

I left the soup in the fridge so that I could skim off the fat easily. Then I used a colander to drain the soup from the bits of chicken an...

Christian and J have a new puppy. Isn’t he gorgeous? He’s a Jack Chi and very small. So now I have two grandchildren . We won’t be mee...

Today I decided to try making chicken soup. It’s supposed to be really good for you. I looked up several recipes online and as there were ...

Back in February I wrote about seeing an incredible sunset in the UK. It was on 7th February, I remember that because it was Christian’s bi...

I don't understand what has happened here.  This flower is 45 centimetres tall while its siblings measure around 23 centimetres: S...

Recently one of our favourite cafés closed down. Le Duperré has been open under that name at least as long as we’ve been in La Rochelle – o...

It's so good to see the colours of the flowers at long last. This little violet wedged itself in a crack on the well a cou...

Is it really that long since I last blogged? My excuse is that I had flu, only mildly, as I was vaccinated in November. I think that my si...

This time last week we were still in the UK. MIL has had a stroke and we visited her in hospital several times. I stayed in the car on the...

Before My crowns dated from my late teens so that makes them 40 years old at least. Over the past three weeks my dentist has be...