CDP Theme Day – My Camera-Shy Self-Portrait

This photo, taken unwittingly, seemed a perfect entry for this month’s City Daily Photo Theme Day entitled my camera-shy self-portrait.For other entries, click here. Cette photo, prise à mon insu, semble parfaite pour le thème mensuel de City Daily Photo intitulé mon auto-portrait de la part de quelqu’un qui déteste être pris en photo. Pour d’autres …

An Unusual Camping Ground – Un camping insolite

This unusual camping ground, called L’escale des châteaux de la Loire, is on the edge of Touraine, Berry and Sologne. You can choose between pods, teepees, yurts, nomads tents, log cabins, forest huts, tree houses and huts with see-through roofs! How’s that for a choice? Le camping insolite de l’Escale des châteaux de la Loire, est …

Spring Colours – Couleurs de printemps

Here is our little wood at its most colourful – daffodils,narcisses, primroses, Japonica and forsythia! I’d love to have a magnolia … Voici l’époque la plus colorée de notre petit bois : jonquilles,narcisses, primevères, cognassier du Japon et forsythia ! Je rève de rajouter un magnolia …

The Concrete Mixer – La bétonnière

Today we bought a secondhand concrete mixer through leboncoin.com. The man who sold it to us is now retired. He keeps hens, geese, a donkey and, very unusually, crows and magpies which he captures and takes to other areas which are less populated … Aujourd’hui nous avons acheté une bétonnière d’occasion par leboncoin.com. Le vendeur …

Election Billboards – Panneaux d'affichage électoral

The départemental elections were held in most of France today. France is divided in 101 administrative units called départements. These are the billboards in front of our voting bureau in Les Grouets in Blois. Voici les panneaux d’affichage devant notre bureau de vote aux Grouets à Blois pour les élections départementales.