Back in September last year we started cleaning up the front courtyard after a couple of years of neglect. The cobbled surface was weeded, a...

I am dismayed to see that part of the nature strip near the médiathèque has been dug up and planted with garden plants that, whilst certainl...

Smoky Polypore Bjerkandera adusta (Fr. Polypore brûlé) is a grey-brown velvety bracket fungus with a white edge. The white underside has ti...

 Apéro. It's a legendary part of the French lifestyle. Want to feel embedded in la France Profonde ? Here's what you should be drink...

  Scaleworts Frullania spp are a genus of lobed liverworts, also known as hepatics, which are sort of primitive mosses. They grow on rocks ...

The other day I had to evict this beast from the kitchen. Since it feeds on the seeds of members of the pea family I'm not sure how it e...