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Browsing Archive: December, 2018

A quiet week of rain but no repas; the cats chill out and I get henpecked and what happened on December 10th?

Posted by Graham Parish on Tuesday, December 11, 2018,

It has been a quiet week here at La Godefrere. We have had lots of rain and some windy weather so it has been a mostly indoor week. It has also been quiet on the eating front as there have been no repas this week. Mrs. Parish reckoned that it was a good thing as we were beginning too forget how to cook!

The cats have been keen to get in and to chill out on the sofas. They all get on reasonably well now and are happy to share the sofa. They are all ready and waiting outside the front door, firs...

Yves and the “Soiree Dansante”, the band played on; Petit becomes not so petit and we encounter a “talkie walkie”

Posted by Graham Parish on Tuesday, December 4, 2018,

Saturday evening saw the latest Repas. This time the venue was at the Salle des fetes in the nearby town of Ambrieres. The meal was organised by the “Comite des fetes” of the small village of Lesbois, which is near to Gorron. Lesbois is too small to have a decent size village hall and so they used the one at Ambrieres which can take the numbers who want to attend.

The Lesbois repas is always well attended as it is a “Soiree Dansante” (an evening of dancing). There is also live music by...

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About Me

Graham Parish

Couesmes-Vauce, France

Graham Parish is a former UNISON Trade Union official who retired to France with Kate (a previous self employed gardener and now resident gardener here) to start a new life of wine, cheese, french bread and a vegetable garden on a large rural french farm with holiday gite, and associated animals.