Hi folks, I hope you are all keeping well in this most difficult of recent times and I hope you are all pleased to hear that I am so far still in my normal r...

Some Seasonal Memories of 1967

Greetings fellow Earthlings, At least we haven't actually voted yet on whether we should go and live on another planet, even if many of my countrymen and wom...

After Melinda and I had a coffee in Arromanches, we walked around looking for somewhere for a bite of lunch. Unfortunately, many of the most inviting lookin...

A trip to Montfiquet and then to arromanches

Thank you for all your Christmas cards, which are really appreciated and I am still putting off the inevitable task of removing them from their display, prou...

Let's Get Xmas Done!

So it's not Goodbye EU Day but it is Halloween

Hello everyone, Just down the road (Route de Coq Gaulois) from where I was staying at Jan's little house... ...past these rather splendid Chinese Lanterns (P...

Hi everyone, The weekend during my stay in Normandy back in September happened to coincide with "Les 36e Journées Européennes du Patrimoine", when what we wo...

...so I went over to France again to visit my friend, Jan, in Normandy, before she moved house to Brittany... ...and here she is, in the garden of the house ...

Hello everyone, It was another beautiful afternoon on Tuesday 16 July, when high tide that ends on the Thames at Teddington Lock was due to turn at about 4pm...

Chers amis et famille, I left la Londe-les-Maures on the morning of Saturday 29 June and headed northwest with the temperature in the low forties. I avoided...

Bonjour à tous, A little way up from my favourite spot on la Plage del'Argentière is a sailing school... ...so in English it may be "Hello sailor!"... ...whi...

As soon as May is over, Artists' Open Houses have all finally closed and I am yet another year older, I allow myself to succumb to my wanderlust. After all,...

Hi again, at last, I really don't know whether I should apologise for the tardiness of this blog or not. On the one hand, it might be considered polite by s...