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Monday, September 30, 2013

Amazing science

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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...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Baby donkey at Gamone

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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 ...

I'm a Saint Sylvester baby

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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...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Country lanes

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Here in the Old World, the rural landscape has naturally inherited a vast assortment of ancient and less ancient man-made features. This is ...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Marching in step

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In French, the expression "noise of boots" ( le bruit des bottes ) evokes an obsession of Fascist dictators: the desire to transfo...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Fit to be worn by an Aussie PM

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This morning, I was browsing around on the Internet, looking for stores that sell long winter underwear... which is the ideal solution for k...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Reached the roof

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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...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Australia, your chicken is ready!

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

Getting ready for the cold season

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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...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Dessert for a dog

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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...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Bachar al-Assad must leave the scene

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The writing is on the wall. France has spoken definitively through our prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault . The criminal Bachar al-Assad must...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Life after Facebook

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I pulled out of Facebook a few years ago. Since then, I've never experienced any nasty withdrawal symptoms and my existence has remained...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Retirement village

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

Good citizen William

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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...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Nuclear submarines for Australia

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

Camping site in Châtelus

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My old friend Daniel Berger (an experienced wild-boar hunter) and his wife Michèle operate a delightful camping site across the other side...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

French commercial property for sale

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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...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Tricked by a donkey

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Yesterday afternoon, when giving my donkeys a bunch of fresh thistles (their caviar), I was suddenly alarmed by the physical appearance of F...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Base-jumping, for and against

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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...

Photographer wins gold at Moscow

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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...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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