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This is a corner of Gamone that I've never touched since moving into the house in 1994: Once upon a time, when farmers produced their ow...

Yesterday afternoon, when I spotted this motionless combat between a snake and a lizard in my garden, I couldn't quite distinguish the c...

A moment ago, in the French press, I jumped to a one-word headline: Earthquake . I imagined immediately that the ground had probably shaken ...

I don't claim to know the sense of the concept of "getting sex right". We humans, like many living creatures (those that explo...

Today is a public holiday in the historically Catholic but formally laic republic of France. Why? Well, believe it or not, we're celebra...

My first contact with the intellectual discipline known as logic was in 1957 at the University of Sydney, where I attended the classes of J...

I don't know whether the Poms actually invented perks for politicians, but they seem to have brought it to a fine art. For example: thou...

For years, I've accompanied efforts aimed at demonstrating that the fabulous phenomenon of hang gliding was born in Grafton NSW. Click t...

Like countless Earth-dwellers, I was moved by the fabulously beautiful image of our concestor Ida . Even Google got into the act immediately...

I would not normally go out of my way, as a tourist, to visit the Mount Rushmore abomination: But that's because I don't have starry...

This is not a particularly flattering photo of the Australian singer Tina Arena , but I had to operate rapidly with my Nikon, while she was ...

The French government has the right, indeed the duty, to persuade citizens that they should take the trouble to visit the polling booths on ...

At the age of 12, I started secondary school in my native town of Grafton, Australia, and I left for Sydney at the age of 16. Aged 23, on th...

Throughout the afternoon, while working in my future garden, I was aware that my TV evening was likely to be a back-and-forth affair between...

My recent article entitled Spring renaissance [ display ] included a photo of the freshly-plowed rectangle in front of my house: a future ...

People swear that they're prepared to talk openly about their personal defects, but they generally find subtle ways of avoiding to do so...

The other day, on my way to St-Marcellin, I came upon the scene of an accident on a stretch of country road where there's never much tra...

The Hebrew Bible stipulated that, for unexplained reasons, one could eat beef and lamb, but not pork. Then Matthew the Evangelist overturne...

As well as designating an amazing era of Italian achievements in art and architecture, the term renaissance is everyday French for rebirth ...

The civic authorities in Amsterdam have a side-splitting sense of humor. Look at this Photoshop montage they concocted for their forthcoming...