Welcome to my Family & Friends website.
This site details my simple life in Brittany and the things that are really important to me – such as cooking, eating, reading and enjoying the beautiful countryside and the people who live here.
Whilst this site is certainly not intended to be a definitive guide to living in France (it’s more of an explanation of how and why I choose to live here), you may find information here that aids you in your life (whether you are living here now, or planning to move over), or for your holidays in this beautiful part of France where I have chosen to make my home.
All the best
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We do things differently in Brittany…
As you can see from our local Ambulance service…
None of that silly saline solution for our IV drips!
We prefer the real stuff…
Works every time!
Read more about… Breton Ambulance
Of course, no day trip to the seaside would be complete without a little paddle…
And i can’t believe how therapeutic…
A little paddle can be!
The FifteenYearOld didn’t really want to join in…
But I suppose that he’s at that difficult age…
When a paddle in the sea isn’t so much fun?
Read more about… Day Trip to St Malo – Part 3
Obviously, one of the reasons that The Girlie, The FifteenYearOld and I went to St Malo on a day trip was…
So that I could enter the Biggest Belly in Brittany Competition!
And, in the picture above…
You’ll see me limbering up for it!
You also see me having a paddle for the first time in…
Eight years!
Why did I wait so long?…
Read more about… Day Trip to St. Malo – Part 2
So, the Girlie, the FifteenYearOld and I decided to pop up to St Malo for a quiet day of culture!
No one told us about the Catamaran races which meant that…
There were no parking spaces for miles!
Still, it was a nice drive round searching for one…
For three hours!
Read more about… Day Trip to St Malo – Part 1
Well…
Personally I don’t know what’s wrong with the kiddies walking miles and miles to school but…
Apparently others think differently!
Read more about… New School Bus?
At long last…
We have got a local supermarket…
Delivery service!
Now, some of you…
With real supermarkets…
Might laugh at us…
Read more about… Meals on Wheels?
At long last…
The local council have agreed to fund a local bus service…
In La Gacilly…
Read more about… The local bus service….
Well, we are a bit behind the times here in rural (and slightly backward) Brittany…
Read more about… Il est quelle heure?
Sometimes, when I consider the state of the world and, more relevantly, the youth of today…
I wonder where we have gone so terribly wrong?
Things certainly have changed since I were a lad…
But then, those were simpler days….
And, instead of rioting in the streets and looting our local Argos Store…
We made our own fun.
And…
I have been striving to understand where we…
Where society…
Has gone so horribly wrong?
Read more about… The Duffle Coat Challenge…
We beat Hearts 5-0 and then…
Lose 3-0 to Man U!
We’re bottom of the league and, really….
That sort of flatters us!
And just think….
There’s another 9 months….
Of this pain and misery, ahead of us!
All the best
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Hearts 0 – Spurs 5!
So, there is a God…
And he does support Spurs…
Which is what many of us suspected all along!
I wonder what the second leg (at White Hart Lane) will bring?
Still, we’ll have to wait for that…
We’re due to be thrashed by Man U. on Saturday!
All the best
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Xavier, one of my neighbours, was telling me about this theory his brother has….
That rural France is slowly but surely being over-run by a new breed…
The Nibans!
Ni urban, ni rural!
And you know what, I have to agree.
Read more about… Niban – the new breed….
Well, 2 days into the new season and Spurs are in their rightful place…
4th from bottom!
The optimists might suggest that all is well as they haven’t conceded any goals…
To which the pessimists would only retort that they haven’t scored any either!
All I can say is that their game on Saturday ( against Everton) was postponed due to riots (which is a pretty unusual excuse?) and they are due to lose to Man U. at Old Trafford next Saturday!
We’ve also got a chance to lose to Heart of Midlothian on Thursday in some sort of play off for the Europa League (whatever that is?)
And from then on it looks a pretty hard season with our first chance of a victory coming when we play Fulham at home (White Hart Lane) on the 13th of May. Which is, funnily enough, the last game of the season!
So, another 9 months of misery and grief before I can relax again!
Read more about… The post where the boy from Brittany talks a load of rubbish about a rubbish football team (amongst other things!)
Well…
Sooner or later the mourning has to end.
I’d rather that there had been no cause for mourning in the first place but…
That wasn’t to be.
Anyway, life goes on and….
So should Breton Diary!
Even though I’ve got this horrible feeling that there’s another 9 months of misery ahead of me as Spurs gamely try to lose every match they play!
Still, that won’t be quite as traumatic as losing a father (I hope – but then, with Spurs, you never know!)
The picture above shows my brother and sisters (well, some of them, anyway), the day after the funeral!
My brother is no doubt smiling because he is a Chelsea (sarf Lunnon scum) fan and probably knows that Chelsea are going to thrash Spurs (and everyone else) all through the year!
My sisters are smiling because they are Girlies and, as a result, really haven’t got the faintest idea what I’m talking about when I’m talking about football!
And, you know what?
Being a Spurs fan, sometimes I envy that ignorance!
Wouldn’t life be easier if you didn’t know that your team was going to humiliate you at every opportunity?
Read more about… Be scared; be very scared!
Yesterday was a bad news day…
Read more about… Father
Either the chickies don’t understand that they’re not human…
Or they think that we’re chickens?
Read more about… Please can we come in?
If it’s Friday it must be about time to take the Bar Beast (the boy who used to be known as the FourteenYearOld) to the bar after school!
I hate having to do this but…
He drags me kicking and screaming into the bar…
And forces me to…
Drink a nice glass of Leffre Brun!
Read more about… Thank God it’s Friday….
I spotted this in the Supermarket car park in Redon last Saturday…
And even though we were late…
I just had to spend 5 minutes…
To take a look.
Have you ever seen anything sexier?
Read more about… You Sexy Beast!
I’m really rather proud of him…
And show him off to everyone I can!
Complete strangers…
The vicar…
Even the local Girl Guide leader…..
Although she said she’d quite like to eat him!
Read more about… Do you want to see my cock?
