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There's a new atheist kid on the YouTube block: Jaclyn Glenn . Here's her profile: Jaclyn Glenn was born March 25, 1988, an...

The day before yesterday, as I was about to set out on my usual early-morning stroll with Fitzroy , I was alarmed by a strident donkey bray ...

My son François Skyvington was conceived (so it appears) at the height of the summer of 1968 in a magnificent corner of the Languedoc-Rouss...

Here in the Old World, the rural landscape has naturally inherited a vast assortment of ancient and less ancient man-made features. This is ...

In French, the expression "noise of boots" ( le bruit des bottes ) evokes an obsession of Fascist dictators: the desire to transfo...

This morning, I was browsing around on the Internet, looking for stores that sell long winter underwear... which is the ideal solution for k...

In November 2012, I started to purchase pipe elements for the erection of a chimney system for a future wood stove. Prior to that date, I ha...

Over the last 24 hours, French media have been having a field day writing what little they know about the mysterious "mad monk" wh...

As I said in a recent blog post [ display ], I've just built a new version of the small website for the Châtelus camping site of my frie...

At this time of the year, Fitzroy is constantly moving around in a world of weeds, prickles and thorns... and I have to verify regularly th...

The writing is on the wall. France has spoken definitively through our prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault . The criminal Bachar al-Assad must...

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...