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Once again, the village of St-Jean-en-Royans has chosen a queen and two princesses for the annual spring parade. The weather was sunny, and ...

Today, the G20 leaders, assembled in London, decided to enable the International Monetary Fund to distribute an astronomical amount of mone...

One of the joys of living in the country is that, when you wake up in the morning, you never know what kinds of situations you might find yo...

I've put a protective coat of anti-rust product on the steel carcass of my recently-constructed iDesk, and polished the walnut slabs wit...

In France, it's fitting that the ministry of Jean-louis Borloo , which promotes wind energy, should have a long-winded name: Ecology, E...

Nicolas Sarkozy has made it perfectly clear that, if the outcome of London's G20 summit is not acceptable, he will simply get up and le...

For many months now, I've got into the habit of using constantly the same fixed menu for my bread machine. The local supermarket sells a...

Shortly before the death of my billy-goat Gavroche (from causes that still remain a mystery), I had bought him a big bag of goat food. A fo...

A few days ago, I was happily surprised to find that my neighbor Dédé had strolled up to Gamone on foot, like at old times. With his knee p...

For several reasons (both communicational and technical), I've decided to attach blogs to four of my existing websites. These new blogs ...

Click the image on the left to see a larger version of the Steelnut ad. I'm proud of my iDesk line of Steelnut furniture, "design...

An ordinary Christian believes in God. But the thing that characterizes a true Man of God is his belief in miracles. The bishop of Orléans, ...

The title I chose for my maternal genealogy notes is A Little Bit of Irish . This is in fact the title of a sentimental Irish song that I us...

We human beings are naturally inquisitive, even when we're not directly concerned by the events we're observing. Haven't you eve...

On certain occasions, in unexpected situations, Google's street-view gadget (mentioned in my previous post) is capable of rising to phot...

Over the last couple of days, I've started work on another chapter of my maternal genealogy, concerning ancestors from Ireland. In fact,...

Look who raced madly into the yard at Gamone this afternoon for a lightning get-together with his old sparring partner Sophia . It was sever...

The man in white often gets things wrong. Talk about less than perfect infallibility, the descendant of Saint Peter screws up, in one way or...

In an attempt to eliminate the illegal downloading of multimedia products, French minister Christine Albanel is introducing a law that migh...