Posted in Family Stuff, Village Life, the Alps, tagged Elections on 22 February, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Elections are looming and I’m not talking about the ones in the U.S., although given the stories floating out of the rumour mill that is our village, I could well be.
The current mayor who has presided over the village for the last 25 years is standing down. He has faced precious little opposition in the [...]
Posted in Food, Village Life, Wild Things, tagged Alps, pigs, Wild boar on 18 January, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Something crunched underfoot as I crossed the courtyard and I was pleased that it was dark and that I couldn’t see the offending object. They had killed the pig here a few hours earlier and I was under no illusion as to what I had probably just stepped on.
I live on one of the few [...]
Posted in Family Stuff, Village Life on 10 September, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I shifted on the chair, the green plastic making my legs sweat and itch and the hot afternoon sunlight doing little to alleviate the discomfort. The tables in the canteen had been pushed back and somehow I had managed to find myself in the front row of seats, a couple of feet from where the headmaster [...]
Posted in Family Stuff, Village Life on 19 August, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Coming back into the lounge with a fistful of beers, I regretted that I seemed to be the only one to have remained sober. The conversation jumped between French and English and veered and twisted in a way that was comprehensible only to those under the influence. I gave up trying to follow their discussion [...]
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