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Over the years, I've become accustomed to inventing ways of moving heavy stuff single-handedly, with a minimum of effort. Here, for exam...

Most people are familiar with the situation of being overcome, emotionally, by the beauty of music performed by a symphony orchestra. Here, ...

This morning, once again, I strolled up along the road at Gamone to admire our splendid wild orchids, while attempting to identify as many a...

Yesterday afternoon, when I gazed towards the east from my bathroom window, I was quite excited by a tiny band of clear white sky that seeme...

GeneaNet is a genealogy service that was created in France. Click here to access the GeneaNet website. A major characteristic of th...

My daughter Emmanuelle happened to give me the only Dan Brown novel I possess: the notorious thing whose title evokes the great Leonardo d...

As an authentic grass-roots American media celebrity, Wolf Blitzer is expected to praise God on CNN. From time to time, inevitably, in the ...

As a boy in Grafton, I grew up in the shade of the celebrated Ford motor company, founded in Detroit (Michigan) in 1903 by the legendary ind...

A great Mediterranean gentleman—poet and singer—has left us. Georges Moustaki [1934-2013] I saw him for the last time at the Festiva...

Dogs are intelligent creatures, and they appear to be able to perform certain cognitive tasks that are beyond the capacity of wolves and chi...

Once upon a time, in France, we had an extraordinary national anthem—stirring, but not particularly nice—that evoked blood and gore, the smo...

Up until recently, I used to make comments in this blog—often of a critical nature—on various aspects of my land of birth, Australia. But I...

Yesterday, I discovered the first visible signs at Gamone of the forthcoming walnut season.   This year, I intend to try out a to...

I provided a brief presentation of this interesting new sport, invented by Fitzroy , in a blog post of 26 February 2011 [ display ]. My dog ...

In my blog post of 11 April 2013 entitled Spring has sprung... at last [ display ], I mentioned my intention to construct, in my ancient st...