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Living all alone here at Gamone, I'm obviously concerned by the risk of stepping out of my shower and slipping like an idiot. So, I use ...

It's funny but understandable (indeed predictable) that Unesco should choose to honor French cooking by considering it as part of the cu...

One has the impression that shit is about to fly in France because of a pharmaceutical product with a nice reassuring name, Mediator … which...

Did I ever tell you that some of my ancestors down in south-west France were keen on painting? Although I'm not a competent critic in th...

Curiously, it was only relatively late in life that I discovered the verb " boggle ", generally applied to minds, and I imagined i...

A quarter of an hour ago, viewed from my bathroom window, the Cournouze looked this: Within five minutes, the cloud layer was starting to re...

This morning, while out walking with the dogs, I came upon half-a-dozen sturdy Coprinus comatus mushrooms. Apparently they exist too in Aus...

When I look down on Fitzroy from my bathroom window of a morning, here's a typical vision of the dog and his context: As you can see, h...

My native land, Australia, wasn't settled by European colonists before the end of the 18th century. So, Down Under, you won't find a...

This morning, the valley of the Bourne was shrouded in floating mists, while the sunny sky was pale blue and studded with cumulus clouds. On...

Long ago in Paris, I used to eat often in a small Arab restaurant in the rue des Archives , just up from the town hall, which served an exce...

My article of October 27, 2019 entitled Donkey expedition day [ display ] described the long walk of Sylvie Rozand and me, leading three ...

French people used to say: We don't produce oil, but we've got ideas. These days, France has been making a great effort to secure C...

An excellent article by Diane La Phung in the French Internet daily Rue 89 examines a fascinating subject: the new style of papal wear int...

An urban child, strolling along a rural road with his parents, came upon a carpet of acorns beneath an oak tree, and he asked his parents wh...

In the New York Public Library , there's a copper globe of the world, made in France around 1510. One might have chosen between countles...

I've acquired the latest version of Photoshop Elements . Bewildered by its amazing visual gimmicks, I'll need to get used to employi...

Really, I can't understand why journalists have been making such a fuss about an innocent party game that Silvio Berlusconi apparently ...

As a schoolboy in Grafton, I was greatly amused by a well-known English essay that we were studying: A Dissertation upon Roast Pig by Charl...