Cholesterol Busting. Maybe.
Hello dear Peeps! Good to have you here.After the happy news of Mr FD Ihave to report the poor man has been injured. We went out to the International evening and enjoyed meat and potato pie, with mushy...
View ArticleNo Doctor, but plenty of food.
Hello again, my Lovelies. I hope you are all well, and full of the joys of Spring (well, almost summer...)Things are okay here. Mr FD has probably cracked a rib, but, thanks to pain killers of various...
View ArticleJust another bit of fun...
The same FB friend who posted the "Just a bit of Fun" post has just posted this one:Bucket List - UK version! Please play along. Put an X if you have done it Honesty the best policy !!!! Been Married X...
View ArticleHo hum.
Hello Dear Peeps. I hope things are good with you. Things are in various spots along a line from ho-hum to good here!The ho-hum is the joys of French bureaucracy. And the sheer weirdness of it. I am in...
View ArticleCycle Club Voyage to Semur en Auxois
Goodness me! I'm feeling glum today. I think it's because I'm rather regretting my decision not to work in the UK this year, and I know that today is the day when everyone will be gathering at Lines to...
View ArticleFood is essential to Life...Therefore make it good.
Hello Dear Peeps! I hope you are all well. I am feeling slightly less glum than I did in my last post. I invited Friend Cathy over that evening, and we sat on the balcony, drinking wine and making...
View ArticleEuro-tastic!
It's the evening of the Euro Football Competition final - Portugal vs France. We are in for a not-so-quiet night, I fear. When Portugal won their semi-final there were some Portuguese fans who drove...
View ArticleLight and Dark
Hello dear Peeps. I am happy to have your company - thank you for dropping by.Like much of the world, we are in a subdued mood here in Dormouse Towers: with the turmoil and instability in the world at...
View ArticleWhat we had for dinner.
Hello dear Peeps. I know it's been a couple of weeks since I last posted here (but you can read about my cat herding adventures over at TheTeapot). We had a lovely time in Nimes, at the David Gilmour...
View ArticleWhat we are going to eat...
This week I don't have any work. In fact I have practically nothing in August, but that's okay, as I am going to the UK next Monday for a week, and then my mum is coming back here for 10 days or so. Mr...
View ArticleFor Cat Lovers...
Aril, over at Wonderings & Wanderings from Gnat Bottomed Towers posted this. I wanted to share it with you in case you hadn't seen it!I'm not sure how much I approve of using cats in this way -...
View ArticleCleaning 'n' tidying
I am all tidied out! Because mum is coming back with me when I return from the UK, I wanted to give the house a really good clean - this is something that isn't undertaken lightly!! So the order of...
View ArticleStill Chat Perdu
Nothing yet.You can read the story so far at The TeapotWe are all so sad without George.Millie is particularly missing her brother...
View ArticleApologies to my readers
The last few weeks I have been pre-occupied: first going to the UK, then losing George and having my mother to stay.Mum has gone home.George has not come home.We are sad, and I cannot bring myself to...
View ArticleLife goes on...
...As you may have read over at The Teapot, we have (sort of) decided it's time to say our goodbyes to beautiful George cat. We still keep our eyes open as we go round the village, we still call from...
View ArticleLunch Out with the Cyclos
On Saturday Mr FD went on a 130-odd kilometre cycle ride with his cycle club, and various cyclists from two other local clubs. It took them into the Lyonnais mountains and a restaurant had been...
View ArticleThe Usual Round-Up.
Hello to all my Lovely Peeps! Thank you for coming to read this. Don't forget there's always The Teapot too - I recently posted about our day out in Lyon. I have just spent two hours cleaning - yuckity...
View ArticleQuick pic of Bib
I am so sorry, dear people. I have been neglecting you. IThere's no real excuse but I'll explain a bit more over the weekend. In the meantime here's a Kitty Picture:This is Bib when she was still a...
View ArticleBizzy Bizzy Bizzy!!
Goodness me! Where has this weekend gone?! All the things I'd planned to do and I haven't done half of them (The ironing was one of the pressing things, but somehow I avoided thet...I'll be running out...
View ArticleAnother apology!!
Sorry.Weekends - and weeks! - are busy, so I don't have time to blog much.My niece & her new husband are coming for a few days on Wednesday, so I have to fit in a bit of cleaning too - though not...
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