Every summer the dreaded zucchini glut arrives. Friends (Huub and Ingrid I'm looking at you) and neighbours insist on offloading gi...

At the end of June I wrote about putting tinfoil on the outside of our windows that don't have shutters. This has worked really well, e...

Like the rest of south western Europe we spent the past week unsuccessfully looking for eclipse glasses. This meant that yesterday evening w...

 Once again we ended a lovely day trip into the Anglin Valley in the very attractive small town of Saint Benoit du Sault. We'd been here...

 As you can imagine our local fire fighters have been working very hard lately, and in Preuilly they are all volunteers. This summer is the ...

This was my breakfast this morning (06:30) which can only mean three things: 1 I'm going out early to ride my bike 2 I'm no good at ...