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When I was a kid in Waterview (South Grafton), my parents had the habit of using the hackneyed expression " from here to Timbuktu ...

Twenty minutes ago, while seated in front of my computer screen and reading the news of momentous events throughout the planet Earth and bey...

I forget how I obtained this information about the top ten smart dogs [ access ]. Maybe Fitzroy found this interesting article when he wa...

I purchased a wood stove in St-Marcellin and accepted the generous assistance of Serge Bellier to bring it back to Gamone in his large util...

Christine went on a car excursion with François to an ancient manor-house at the western tip of Brittany to pick up this magnificent l...

A few years ago, I used to think of one of these Republican celebrities, George W Bush , as a dumb asshole. Today, I look upon his Texan...

Yesterday afternoon, I had made plans with Serge Bellier to drive to a hardware store in St-Marcellin, today, to pick up an Invicta Bradfor...

Whichever way you look at the situation, and no matter what he actually says in his much-awaited coming-out on doping condemnations (recorde...

In a recent issue of The New Yorker , Simon Rich offers us a delightful tale, set in the Stone Age, about love, art and professional activi...

I find it perfectly normal to allow my dog Fitzroy to use my iPad whenever he wants to catch up with what's happening in the outside wo...

I don't know whether it's grave from a health viewpoint, but I'm forced to admit that I've become totally addicted to my pum...

The 26-year-old would-be writer Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris in the summer of 1902. He soon started work on his future great pro...

When I was looking around for an image of a bottle of so-called "holy water" for my blog post on placebos, I stumbled upon an awes...

Saint Jerome —one of the four traditional Great Doctors of the Western Church —was born around 347 in the Roman province of Dalmatia, at a p...

In an article of 2 July 2012 entitled Not the answer [ display ], I deplored my inability to prevent mysterious Gamone rodents from devourin...

I'm impressed by this lovely Nasa night view of the planet Earth: [Click to enlarge] Questions arise, demanding answers. From rig...

Suddenly, yesterday afternoon, I heard hounds barking furiously up beyond my neighbor's house, probably in the muddy bed of Gamone Creek...

Once upon a time, at an unknown date, a lady in a black robe and hat stepped into the River Bourne below Gamone and got her photo taken. ...

Here in France, it's still only 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the penultimate day. So, everything still exists here, and it's bu...

Fitzroy has developed the habit of sitting down at the top of the stairs, with his rump and hind legs on the landing, and his front paws on...