Antipodes

In French, the expression "jardin de curé" ( clergyman's garden ) designates an ancient horticultural style and layout inspir...

Over the last few days, weather specialists on TV have been warning us that the apparent early arrival of spring is an illusion, and that we...

This afternoon, I installed new plastic feed buckets for Moshé and Fanette . I purchased these buckets through the Internet, since th...

Lawrence Durrell was born exactly a century ago, on 27 February 1912, in British India, where his parents were colonial expatriates. ...

Recently, this emu at Taronga Park on the shores of Sydney Harbour was puzzled: The bird couldn't be expected to know that the gre...

The erotic operation that English-speaking people designate curiously as blowing is generally looked upon, in France, as sucking . I...

Nicolas Sarkozy was not particularly prudent in his choice of this calm marine backdrop for his electoral poster, released yesterday. ...

Certain simple stories are so poignant that they deserve to be shared.  I found this heart-rending tale on this morning's Le Parisien w...

They're colorful creatures. Kept in a domestic cage, fed periodically on spiritual tidbits (cereal wafers and cheap wine, with holy wate...

Last July, when my Choranche neighbors brought me home from the hospital in Romans after my stupid accident [ display ], Tineke dashed into...

Over the last week, when the weather was bitterly cold, I allowed Fitzroy , exceptionally, to sleep in the kitchen with Sophia . Inside the ...

Thanks to Google Maps (which is an extraordinary device for a virtual globetrotter), I can wander leisurely through the narrow streets of t...

In Aussie slang, a ring-in is a black sheep in the family, the opposite of a fair dinkum offspring. And that reminds me of a joke. The Re...