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A few months ago, I deliberately refrained from indicating on my blog that my young female donkey Fanette had suddenly died. At the time, ...

A new publishing house is about to emerge: Gamone Press . Our first title will be a paper book: A Little Bit of Irish — My Mothers' Peo...

Prince Charles has been in combat, over the years, on all kinds of hostile fronts. So, it’s normal that the breast of the future monarch s...

                                                — photo Didier Plowy The young woman in blue—who seems to be smiling inwardly, as if he...

This afternoon, at the charcuterie counter in a local supermarket, I was intrigued by the behavior of a young female client who wished to p...

In 2010, my novel All the Earth is Mine was published as an E-book by a US firm, Smashwords . After a while, having received not a single c...

Once or twice a day, as usual, Fitzroy lets off steam by means of a short but intense session of hose running. I tried to “freeze”...

In my blog post of November 2010 entitled Master mushroom chef [ display ], I spoke of Coprinus comatus mushrooms, which are one of my fa...

In my blog post of 18 September 2013 entitled Country lanes [ display ], I indicated that the mayor of Choranche and his municipal councill...

As soon as the Great War broke out, the French psychiatrist Frantz Adam [1886-1986] was enlisted as a medical officer in a French infantry ...

People tend to think that France is a modern nation (well, some people, at least) and that Paris is a great city in constant evolution. I m...

The French website of Le Nouvel Observateur offers us regularly various collections of great images. I would imagine that this stuff should...

Creationists and folk who believe in the truth of Genesis are trying constantly to invent arguments designed to reveal that Darwinian evolut...

A week ago, I announced [ display ] that my maternal family-history document was completed. Today, I'm happy to announce that the comple...

The great Edith Piaf sung the praise of her lover, member of the French Foreign Legion, whose body exuded the aroma of hot sand. Thous...

I didn't hear the noise of the impact, but my photo proves that the catastrophe did in fact occur... this afternoon, at an undetermined ...

My stone cellar finally has a stout wooden door at its southern end. One of these days, I'll build a staircase up to the ground le...

I've finally completed a full version of my maternal family-history story, entitled A Little Bit of Irish . It's 242 pages long, and...

The Atlas robot, being developed by Boston Dynamics , measures 1m88, weighs 150 kilos and can use its stereoscopic vision to move around on...

This video, dating from 2009, is one of the finest, shortest and most precise statements made by Richard Dawkins on the subject of creation...