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Nearly all the so-called "old roses" on my pergola are in full bloom today and, for some of them, this is the first time they'...

Back in January, when the two horses were residing at Gamone, this was a view of the linden tree with the lower paddock in the background: A...

In an article entitled Awards , which I wrote nearly four years ago, I made fun of a dangerous-looking concrete staircase in the village of ...

The website where I found this hilarious clip said: " Obama's armored vehicle can protect him from everything except ridicule. ...

In my recent article about cutting down a dead tree at Gamone [ display ] , I should have pointed out that the tree in question is known in ...

One of the prominent facial features that I share with my dogs is the presence of a vertical indent between the nose and the upper lip, call...

Here in France, it has just turned midnight. The time in my native land, Australia, is 8 hours in advance of France (since God decided—as ex...

I wrote about this rose bush a year ago [ display ] . Its resurrection is amazing. Cueillez dès aujourd’hui les roses de la vie Quand vous s...

The cherry tree alongside the house is loaded with fruit, but it's located on a steep embankment, which makes cherry-picking difficult. ...

When I was a ten-year-old child in South Grafton, an older boy named Ervin McNally , living on a farm on the other side of the road, gave us...

Whenever my neighbor Madeleine drops in, it's always a joyous encounter, not only for me, but for our dogs. My Fitzroy leads a barking...

This fabulous photo shows the prestigious US lawyer Benjamin Brafman saying " Shut up " to his bowed client, Dominique Strauss-K...

After my arrival in Paris in 1962, I was exhilarated—among countless other things—by the possibility of purchasing and reading the original ...

We've been shocked, this morning, by videos of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs. In France, it would be totally illegal to publish s...

Many people in France are in a state of shock after learning today at dawn (French time) that Dominique Strauss-Kahn —the brilliant French e...

Don't imagine for a moment that the present state of my rose pergola and garden at Gamone might be the outcome of my horticultural skill...

Normally, dead trees at Gamone don't worry me at all. On the contrary, I see them as attractive havens for wild life, from birds through...

The Australian secondary-school system promotes a preposterous so-called chaplaincy program , which means that public funds are used to enab...