Antipodes

I pulled out of Facebook a few years ago. Since then, I've never experienced any nasty withdrawal symptoms and my existence has remained...

As far as I'm concerned, this title— retirement village —doesn't mean much, for the obvious reason that I don't actually resid...

Normally, nobody's going to know the bare facts (unless I get struck down dead in the near future... which is not one of my current inte...

Several years ago, I brought up the important subject of Australia's antiquated submarine fleet, and the question of an ideal replacemen...

My old friend Daniel Berger (an experienced wild-boar hunter) and his wife Michèle operate a delightful camping site across the other side...

My friends Tineke and Serge spoke to me recently about a couple up near Lyon, named Bruno Richard and his wife Marie-Paul , whom they...

Yesterday afternoon, when giving my donkeys a bunch of fresh thistles (their caviar), I was suddenly alarmed by the physical appearance of F...

I've just heard that another base-jumper was killed this morning to the south of Grenoble, but I don't know yet whether it was at or...

Here's a portrait of the real winner of the 100 m sprint at Moscow: He's a photographer named Olivier Morin , who works for AF...

It's nice of Barack Obama to tell his fellow-citizens that their nation has no intention of preying upon their private lives. It...

In certain fields (and not only in sport), outstanding individuals from my native land can do just as well as celebrated Americans, if not b...

On the road from my place up to Grenoble, there's a marvelous spot where the road turns around the tip of the Vercors range before the f...

This afternoon, I took two photos from the same spot: my bathroom window. In both cases, my Nikon was pointed in more-or-less the same direc...

We were confronted simultaneously, the morning, with two front-page news items about food, one of which was disastrously negative, and the o...

Poor Stacey Dooley ! Poor Luton! I feel sorry for the people and the nation I once knew. If Brits were to think of themselves as toler...

There's no doubt about the preferred flowers of butterflies at Gamone. Disregarding my roses, they spend all their time on the lavender ...

Over the last week or so, we've had a heat wave in France, and the region where I live has regularly been the hottest spot in France. Bu...

A couple of days ago, I made an intriguing discovery in the domain of my ancient family history. It's a little complicated to describe, ...

As I said in my recent blog post entitled Green walnuts, black hands [ display ], my first batch of green walnuts in sweet syrup has been p...

Maybe (surely) I've retained far too little, sadly, from my relationship with my Breton ex-wife Christine Mafart ... apart from two bril...