I’m not sure why she chose me to be her first guest blogger but she did, saying…

“Bien sur, the honor of the first guest blogger goes to the Sugar Daddy Blog King of France, Keith Eckstein over at A Taste of Garlic.”

You know….

I’ve never been called a Sugar Daddy before!

Or a Blog King!

I wonder if Charley was thinking of the right person?

I loved it that Charley gave me the opportunity to waffle on…

As waffling on is one of the things that I do best!

I chose to write all about my Mornings in France.

And you can read my wafflings here……. 365 Things That I Love About France

Once again, many thanks Charley – you’re my hero!

And, if any of you readers are interested in a really good blog about Life in France

As opposed to this rather waffly blog about Life in Brittany…

I suggest that you pop over and take a good look at 365 Things That I Love About France

All the best

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Pay As You Win!

Now, although I don’t bet on horses myself (Apart from the office sweepstakes in London for the Grand National, I don’t think I ever have), I do have two rather good friends in the UK who do back horses and have done so for over twenty years…

And rather successful they are at it too!

When they came to visit, during the summer we started chatting about the mathematics behind their methods of picking winners and…

The upshot was that I would design a website for them…

So that they could pass on their tips (for a very small fee) to anyone who wanted to benefit from their wealth of experience.

Thus, www.Pay-As-You-Win.com was born.

We’ve tried to keep the whole site as simple as possible but, behind the scenes, there’s rather a lot going on.

Even if you don’t bet yourself (as, indeed, I don’t), you may know someone who does.

Why not let them know about www.Pay-As-You-Win.com.

As you can see, it is free to join and you can buy credits (which you use to purchase tips) from as little as £5 (for 5 credits.)

You only pay for winning tips. For tips that don’t win or, do win but at an Odds On price (yes, I’ve had to learn this strange new language too!), you get your money back.

There will be another site coming soon. John and Mark have another system that they’d like to share – a computerised system that produces fewer tips, but ones that win 85% of the time!

But, for the moment, we’re concentrating on promoting www.Pay-As-You-Win.com

So, if you know of anyone who likes the occasional flutter, why not tell them about www.Pay-As-You-Win.com and let them benefit from not only the cheapest horse racing tips around but, ones that you only pay for if they win.

All the best

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I’m sorry for the slight lack of posts over the last couple of weeks.

I’ve been having a few sleep related issues due to the cold weather and the Girlie and I have been very busy on two new projects (details of which will be announced in the next few days.)

But, I’m happy to say that all is back on track and normal service has been resumed (although what passes for normal here might be considered obscenely abnormal in most decent and respectable households!)

And, just to prove it, here’s a nice picture of a spider’s web!

I spotted it in La Gacilly, the other week, and thought… “Aaah.. that looks pretty!”

What an exciting life I do lead, hey?

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All the best

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I’m not going to go into it here but you can see all the details (together with some personal indiscretions) at A Taste of Garlic!

Don’t all rush at once because there won’t be room!

All the best

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The visitor count at Breton Diary just seems to go up and up!

A massive thank you to each and every visitor to Breton Diary!

All the best

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After a little delving around I realised that it was all of August 2009′s posts that hadn’t come across when I changed from my old, hand-coded system to WordPress.

Thus, I’ve spent all day importing those old posts!

If you’re interested in that sort of thing….

This is a list of what I was up to last August!

Busy, Busy, Busy	Spanish Guests
Lawnmower News	A Family Visit
A Sunflower Thing!	Sunflowers
In the Garden	Harvest Time!

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All the best

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There are still a few stray posts to recover but these shall be done over the next few days and weeks.

These are mainly the restaurant visits (I can’t really call them reviews) and I’m taking my time because I’m reliving old memories.

If you want to look at the old site, you can find it at BretonDiary, Old Diary Page.

All the best

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If you’re feeling hungry, or just want to know 101 things to do with little bits of dead pig, why not take a look at The Kitchen Section.

All the best

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I’d forgotten what a fan of Jeffwey’s I was!

I also found a link back to the original Breton Diary – although, in those early days I called it My Place in France.

I did a quick check and the site is still there, not updated, unloved and unvisited.

If you want to see how all this started out, take a quick visit to My Place in France.

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A Taste of Garlic seems to be moving from strength to strength and we are now seeing about 400 unique visitors to it every day.  I have also started a new site (still in Beta)… www.Brittany-Links.com

Once www.Brittany-Links.com is up and running, others will follow.  What I am trying to do with these sites is provide a simple and easy way for people to advertise their businesses, advertise items they want to sell and, of course, pick up a bargain or two!  Why not pop over to www.Brittany-Links.com to see what you think.

I’ve shipped an Internet Acceleration Appliance to Alex Hampshire who runs a very interesting blog at A Languedoc Journal.  I hoping that more people will follow his lead and use my ideas to speed up their internet access.  I’m happy to have a chat with anyone who  wants to know how it all works.

All the best

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