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Trevor Morris »
Pampered Pets
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 4th October 2008
IF you are not the guardian of any four-legged fur-covered mammals, you may find this strange.
Allan & Rose Davies »
Todavia esta lloviendo! El tiempo de volar aún más al sur por el invierno!
Posted on 8:30am Monday 29th September 2008
The final habitational observations is that of the rose tinted glass, king of all you can survey, lord of the manor as far as the eye can see, Campo Finca!
Trevor Morris »
Parameters of taste
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 27th September 2008
WITH the ever-increasing numbers of celebrity chefs, the expanding girths of the teenage population, and the rash of programmes celebrating people who live off nothing but cheese and crisps, you could be forgiven for thinking that Britain has become a nation obsessed by food.
Jenni Stevenson »
Tent Wasteland
Posted on 3:22pm Friday 26th September 2008
So what does a camp-hardy, be-rucksacked, adventurous, spirited gal like me do when lost in the woods of Paris with nighttime big bad wolves fast approaching? Easy. Phone a friendly Beard back home and ask him, coutesy of his employers, to "look up where the bloody hell this flipping campsite is then".
Gus Mckechnie »
Olympic handover provides lesson
Posted on 2:56pm Wednesday 24th September 2008
Somehow no matter what you organise, sometimes something happens that changes everything and threatens to overshadow it. I got involved in helping to co-ordinate an Olympic handover in Southampton.
Jenni Stevenson »
M is for Metro, N is for Non
Posted on 2:07pm Wednesday 24th September 2008
Ah Paris ... got to confess it's a bit of a favourite. I get off the coach from the airport and walk down the road to see where it takes me. I turn a corner and up the hill at the end of the road, bathed in very welcome sunshine is the Arc de Triomphe.
Allan & Rose Davies »
La precipitación, ahora hay una cosa rara!
Posted on 8:30am Monday 22nd September 2008
Well, it had to end, one hundred and seventeen days without rain was brought to a close with one almighty crash as a tremendous storm hit Coin at 3AM last Wednesday morning bringing with it the first precipitation in nearly four months.
Trevor Morris »
Making a scene
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 20th September 2008
THEY do say that life imitates art, and that certainly seems to be true of many of the towns that are grouped in our corner of south-western France.
Jenni Stevenson »
The Scottish Blog
Posted on 8:54am Friday 19th September 2008
I have been told that I am very lucky to get a flight from Cork to Glasgow as they have now cancelled it. So I am expecting the flight to be as empty as the flight here from Dublín. It's a surprise then that it is chock a block full and very noisy.
Jenni Stevenson »
And the Corking goes on
Posted on 9:06am Thursday 18th September 2008
At about midnight as I lay shivering in the thickest and most expensive socks known to man, every piece of clothing I have with me on, and my sleeping bag pulled up right over my head like Harry Houdini about to treat the crowds to a derring-do of some sort or other involving a tightrope or a huge waterfall ... it starts to rain.
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