Angel the Nomad
Angel must have nomadic genes. She loves to travel. It would have been hell for her in the puppy farm just being confined, let alone all the other hideous aspects of that existence. She...
Tagged: France
Why New Is Good
When we adopted Susie-Belle it was all new, for her and us. She had no concept of what life with us would be like. Or indeed life anywhere beyond the safety of the rescue...
Seasonal Down Payment in France
After living all my life in the south-east of England, inside the M25, 20 miles from Central London, an area which is now the busiest, most congested part of Britain, I now count on...
When A Quiet Path Beckons We Take It
We live deep in the countryside of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region of France, an area best known to British visitors as the Dordogne but to the French as Périgord. It’s a picturesque area throughout...
National Best Friends Day
National Best Friends Day? Every day’s a hashtagged day it seems and some amuse and some are plain weird. Today I love that it’s #nationalbestfriendsday as we’re sharing this hot Wednesday in France with...
The cherry on the cake
It’s been a good week in France, which is where we are now for the summer. The dogs love their days here as a) they have our company for most of each day, being...
Scrambling up, staggering down
Where we decided to camp in the Cevennes we were up in the mountains. The campsite was 900m altitude, high for us, nothing I know for some mountain ranges. With neither of us being...
Camping trip to the Cevennes
I’m sorry we’ve been AWOL for a week or so, we have had no internet access as we went off camping to the beautiful, remote region of southern France, the Cevennes. It is the most...
Fancy meeting you here..
One of the amazing things we’ve found since we lost Jasmine and started our schnauzer family all over again with first Renae, then Susie-Belle and more recently Twinkle is how many very good friends...
Wildflower walk
Not our house but one of our favourites, the “Chateau” We’ve had a few days here in France and the weather has been dramatic and beautiful. The temperatures when we drove down on Thursday...