View from Across La Manche

The time has come, the correspondent said, to talk of many things, Of Kings and cops and long road hops, while Americana sings… (with heartfelt apologies to Lewis Carroll) I was originally going to write at […]

A rose by any other name… When we moved to France, back in December of 2020, I had a bit of schoolboy French and that was it; just enough to, sort of, get by in a […]

There’s a riot going on… It’s been a very lively month here, politically. As I’m sure most people know, Emmanuel Macron survived two No Confidence votes on the evening of March 20th, after he forced his […]

Plus ça change… Quite a contrast between last month’s featured article photo and this month’s! It seems like it was full on winter only yesterday and now spring is making a definite attempt to show up. […]

Hunting the heart of winter. Bon Hiver! Though I don’t think I can see that catching on as a greeting. I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday period. Some may have noticed there was no ‘View […]