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In the space of a few days, the leaves of the giant linden trees at Gamone have turned pale yellow, and started to fall. There has been no a...

For the first time ever in the history of the Fifth French Republic, a former president will be put on trial. It's alleged that, when he...

Today's Google banner in France celebrates the 50th birthday of the comic-strip characters Astérix and Obélix , who appeared for the f...

With a mixture of amusement and melancholy, I've become aware that my Australian ancestors had indirect links of an anecdotal nature, on...

I would imagine that Microsoft has had enough time and experience by now to get its act together at an operating systems level, in which ca...

I was born in Australia in 1940, in the country town, Grafton, that will be celebrating its 75th Jacaranda Festival from October 30 to Nove...

At this time of the year, little birds start dropping in at Gamone. Their lovely French name, mésanges , is pronounced in the same way as th...

Back in August 2008, in an article entitled Homo faber [ display ] , I spoke about electric fences whose stakes are steel rods surmounted b...

There's a lot of stuff on the Internet about the mind-boggling American baby named Brooke Greenberg , 16 years old, who's not growin...

A few days ago, there was consternation in Paris because of rumors that the president's son might be aloft, all on his own, in a giant a...

After spending an evening warming my toes in front of the fireplace, I can now jump into bed with an exciting new companion. The Kindle is ...

Every afternoon last week, I was up at my spring installing the new overflow pipe... with an iPhone in my coat pocket in case I needed to ph...

When Badger suggests, in a comment to my First fire article [ display ] , that I might be curling up my toes in front of the fireplace in...

In my tiny world, it's a momentous evening. I've just lit up the first fire in the chimney to herald in the approaching cold season....

Over the last few days, when I've been working up at the spring on the slopes above Gamone, my dog Sophia (who usually has the habit of...

Tackling problems concerning a spring is fascinating, because you're faced with challenges of a primordial earthly kind, like those that...

... that Dad hopes to get me a fabulous job. She thinks I'm a struggling student trying to plan my future in an egalitarian republic. Me...

If ever you were thinking about the idea of maybe trying to win a Nobel prize, my advice is to forget about stuff such as science and litera...

You may have thought, like me, that our female ancestor Ardi [ display ] had particularly big feet. With feet like that, if ever Ardi had ...

Readers will realize immediately that the substance of this blog article is no doubt meaningless, for the obvious reason that there is no su...