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Arts

A View From The Farmhouse, Part Two

21st September 2023 Going Postal 0

 Tons of soil (h/t Dr Spooner) The farm was bought by my English friend for an amount about the same as the cost of a reasonable terraced house in an English Northern town. In all, [more…]

21st Century

Colonialist Le Grand Fromage, Part One

13th September 2023 Going Postal 0

Le Grand Fromage Lands Although elected under the banner of the Socialist Party (which obviously holds pro “European” views), Hollande attempted to govern in the interest of the “Colonial Party known as French Colonial Union”. [more…]

Arts

A View From The Farmhouse, Part One

7th September 2023 Going Postal 0

This is the first of an occasional series looking at life in Northern France in general and plotting progress with the farm. Setting the scene: Here in rural Lower Normandy things move at a slow [more…]

21st Century

Cocaine Importation Agency and Qatari bagman Agent Sarkozy

6th September 2023 Going Postal 0

Nicolas Sarkozy, American agent1 (The Frog on the Seine is all mine all mine) On 2nd September 2005 Jacques Chirac suffered a serious stroke and ceased to govern. He was no longer able to execute [more…]

Biography

That’s Life, Part 2

10th August 2023 Going Postal 0

My first time in France was in 1963 on an army ‘Adventure Training Expedition,’  aka  ‘Think up a jolly which has a ‘ military slant ‘ and have most expenses funded. We were to canoe [more…]

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WG’s 21st Cruise, Part Four

24th July 2023 Going Postal 0

Sunday June 18th – La Spezia – Italy I think dawn breaking must have woken me this morning. It was about 06:15 and we were entering La Spezia harbour. This is a first visit here [more…]

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The Anglo French Culture Divide

12th July 2023 Going Postal 0

The Sexes No clearer cultural Anglo French divide is quite so evident than demonstrated in the womenfolk of both countries. At the end of the second Napoleonic war Brit women descended on Paris to search [more…]

20th Century

Through The Mountains To Piedmont

6th May 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Essentially hill and lake people, and having traversed the French and Italian Rivieras during their 1958 Ford Prefect continental road trip, my grandparents headed inland in search of inclines and hairpin bends. Col de Tende [more…]

20th Century

Along The Cote d’Azur

1st April 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Cannes Having pestered the French Air Force at Istres last time, this time we’re striking out from there along the Cote d’Azur in diréction Cannes. Above we see the fishing port side of the town [more…]

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