Bye Bye England... Off to France

What a couple of weeks in June!

braunstonian — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:05:38 +0000

What an understatement! Stating the obvious given the media coverage, it is so sad to see the passing of Michael Jackson & Farah Fawcett – both childhood icons. I well remember “Charlies Angels” and the corresponding comic strip in “Look-in” magazine back in the 70’s. Michael Jackson marks my life with the album “BAD”, when it was [...]

Chez Sarika

braunstonian — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:56:38 +0000

We went to this restaurant on Thursday evening, our second visit this year. The food is to die for. We both took the 21€ menu, which was quite reasonable. Indian food isn’t as common as say, Couscous, Chinese, Greek, Pizza etc, but I know of at least 3 restaurants in our local area within 15-20km. clipped from [...]

Worries & 2 more weeks

braunstonian — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:18:42 +0000

There are always worries in life, or at least not all the time, but they definately exist. Recently I had a message from back home that my 83 year old Grandma is having heart problems and will have to see a specialist. This sort of news stops you in your tracks a bit, especially as [...]

Roger Soubie

braunstonian — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:38:17 +0000

After, it seems being taken off working on the village magazine (the first I knew was receiving the last issue in my letterbox), it seems that I’ve now been kindly asked to work on the local history magazine “La Grenouille Verte”, which is produced by the group of the same name run by Monsieur-le-Maire-Adjoint. Subject [...]

Spring & Summer 2009

braunstonian — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:18:19 +0000

As usual I am catching up. OK, I’ve been here on my blog via my “Tweets” (see top left) but posting has been something I have overlooked, not only on this blog but also on my Père au Foyer blog. March saw us on holiday in Carentec, in Brétagne (Brittany) – we had a week of [...]