Time Travel
In Hong Kong, we recently celebrated the Ching Ming festival, an annual commemoration of ancestors and, consequently, a poignant time of year…
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February in the Morvan
We love Cervon! We have lived at Maré le Bas in the commune of Cervon since 2005. This magnificent poster (pictured above)…
Read more →A Christmas Story
I am typing this on 2nd January 2021, and there is good news and bad news. Let’s leave it to the media…
Read more →December In The Morvan
Type CHRISTMAS into your search box and you will see that what we call Christmas today is essentially a pagan midwinter festival,…
Read more →November In The Morvan
I am typing this on October 30th 2020. I have just looked up my earlier November effusions. Those were the days! At…
Read more →The Shadows Of Bubbles
One very intriguing aspect of living in a place like Hong Kong is that you often find yourself treading niftily between parallel…
Read more →Heritage Days
We always look forward to the Journées du Patrimoine – European Heritage Days – during the third weekend in September. You can…
Read more →September In The Morvan
Another free library The free library in Corbigny, which I featured in my August effusion, prompted John’s brother, David, to send this…
Read more →Overrun With Tourists And Gasping In The Heat And Humidity!
Welcome and Benvenuti to all my Lovely readers around the World, I am writing to you on 15 August, and it’s as…
Read more →Book Exchange
Chris in Calgary emailed me with a picture of what she called a little free library. Well, the same idea has caught…
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