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Bikes

The good news and the bad news. Mrs Davey doesn't like the Brompton folding bike. …

The healing

It is SO GOOD to sleep without a dressing on my neck. It is SO GOOD to be able to twis…

Panoramas de l'Ars

Here's the latest photo of the gardens below our balcony. There has been frantic r…

Charming and maybe a little alarming...

Stitches are out

Hurrah! Now to wait another ten days before starting to rub in well some "scarrin…

A new bike

Before we moved from Pessac Pat sold her nice old mixte frame bicycle to one of the ne…

Sometimes a smidgin of Vaughan Williams just hits the spot

45 has landed

US Boris has landed at M�rignac airport and presumably been whisked in his motorcade d…

Panorama of the Jardins de l'Ars

Still takes a bit of faith and imagination to see the promised gardens.

Healing

All seems to be healing up quite nicely. I put on a dry dressing overnight so as not t…

Post-op

Hurrah for paracetamol! The dressing's off. The operation site looks quite clean a…

Attentive readers

will observe that I make little comment on politics.

Getting my cyst cut out

I thought that since there would be lots of administration to do that I'd go quite…

OK this means war

I killed one the other day, but this morning ANOTHER mosquito was hiding under my desk…

Rats!

Regular readers will know of our family history with rodents. A gerbil. Guinea-pigs. R…

They've started testing the new tram Line D

This is important for us because it will link directly our flat and the building where…

Summer in France

The summer in France can be frustrating. Sometimes it's very hot. We bust the reco…

A Welshman at the hospital

The trouble with being Welsh and living in France is that I am a bit obsessive about b…