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Signing out – for a while …

by The Dog - May 7, 2013

We are signing out and off for a while because our mum is heading off on an adventure very soon.  She is heading for St Malo and then getting on… Read more…

Categories: Dog Blog

It’s at times like this …

by The Dog - May 1, 2013

Was it really this sunny just a few days ago?  When some of us were lounging around next to mum’s son and his girlfriend with the lovely name,  hoping that… Read more…

Categories: Kira

What Marnie did next

by The Dog - April 24, 2013

Mum says to say thank you to everyone who has been in touch over the past few days, either via our DB or by telephone or email.  The story of… Read more…

Categories: On coming back home

Reading the signposts along the way

by The Dog - April 22, 2013

Everyone does silly things.  Doing silly things is part of life.  Depending on the silliness level, it may be something silly, un petit rien, as a French friend described it this… Read more…

Categories: Of leaving home

A tonic?

by The Dog - April 9, 2013

If anyone reads the efforts of our tapping paws, they will know that our mum has not been exactly top line and tickety boo recently:  allergies, rain, rain, snow, wind,… Read more…

Categories: our life in France

Random bumps and breaking bones

by The Dog - April 4, 2013

It’s funny how you just happen to bump into someone you may know well, or may not know very well at all, and that random bump leads to a stream… Read more…

Categories: Dog Blog

Pampering the poules

by The Dog - March 24, 2013

How bored do you have to be to think about chickens? Perhaps our witterings should be more stuffed with fascinating, insightful and useful information about much that is French here… Read more…

Categories: Our Flock

Le petit tabac dans notre petit village

by The Dog - March 14, 2013

The weather is confusing us.  Why aren’t we running around in the garden with our shorts on like last week, watching mum’s backside gardening?  (She was bending down most of… Read more…

Categories: our life in France

The Kept Woman

by The Dog - February 26, 2013

Our mum, the kept woman, learnt a new word this morning.  It is a noun, le bobard, and a bit slangy and means ‘fib’ in English.  It was in a… Read more…

Categories: our life in France

The last Plumbago

by The Dog - February 20, 2013

Oyr mum is back from Scotland and made a bit of amistake with the hotel booking.  She thought the price quoted was for three nights, in fact it  wad gor… Read more…