Antipodes

In everyday conversations, the term "Internet" is likely to be replaced by the expression "on the net". Instead of sayin...

See my blog comment (number 4) at the New York Times website .

I've been happy to carry on with this blog over the last few weeks, and I've even had the pleasant feeling that something that might...

Often, if I'm quick enough, I can grab my camera and obtain interesting images from my bathroom window or the front yard of my house, as...

On cold damp mornings like today, I'm always amused by Sophia 's behavior. She has to make a choice between staying outside in front...

As I've pointed out in an earlier blog, I'm a particularly small-time (and unofficial) sheep farmer, even by French standards. If my...

It’s reassuring to see a female Democrat of Italian origins in charge of the US Congress. As soon as she took her stand on Capitol Hill, Nan...

While I was in Australia a few months ago, my aunt Nancy happened to tell some lady friends that she had a visitor, her nephew (me), who liv...

Don’t count upon me to praise unduly French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy , because I’ve already made it clear that I’m a 100% fan ...

Everybody who knows me should be aware that I’m especially attracted to history. Not only large-scale History with a capital H, such as the ...

Old school friends from Grafton sent me a photo of wallabies on their lawn. And I promptly took the liberty of transforming their photo into...

There’s a great annual event in which my antipodean motherland has always starred as the all-time world champion. I’m talking, of course, of...

I picked up Emmanuelle in Valence (exceptionally, the train from Paris stopped at the old station in the middle of the city) on Wednesday at...

My title is misleading. A reader might imagine that I'm using the expression in the same style, say, as a distraught individual who crie...

All the Earth is Mine is a yet-unpublished technico-political fable about large-scale earthmoving activities, primarily in Israel. I wrote ...

One would imagine that medieval history is a sufficiently serious domain of research to exclude the survival of spurious legends, particular...

You can’t believe everything transmitted by the media. We now know retrospectively (a little too late for anybody to do much about it) that ...

This often happens to me. I want to talk in English about a newfangled thing whose name I know in French, but not in English. In the present...

If I were working on genealogy, I would speak of ancestors . If I were talking about olden days here at Choranche, I would use the French eq...

Nothing anguishes me more than heights and holes. By heights, I mean mountain ledges and cliffs. By holes, I mean deep gorges and abysses. W...