I now have two France related Widgets that you can use on your “space”. Whether that be your site, MySpace, Blog, Bebo page or Facebook profile; I’ll be delighted to let you use them! You can put them just about anywhere that’ll accept embedded Flash or Javascript code. Here you go: FIND ENGLISH SPEAKERS IN FRANCE… a map using [...]

About your humble blogger… Having moved from Leicester in the UK to France to be with his French girlfriend back in 1997, John Nelson continues to live in the Essonne region where he is père au foyer to his young son, and organiser for the groups English Speakers in France and Anglophones in Essonne. He created [...]

I’ve been putting it off for a while now, but my Généraliste insisted I go for a blood test - so this morning was it. As is the way in France you go to a Laboratoire d’Analyse. The ones around here are situated in most small towns, something that just doesn’t exist in the UK where the GP usually [...]

It seems at this time of year everything gets bunched together - so much to do, frantic activity quoi! Which I shouldn’t complain about, because sitting here as my son sleeps I think I need some excitement. Although much of our frantic activity is confined to the end of the week and the weekends. By [...]

Better late than never, much to the bemusement of our friends we held a Bonfire Night for the first time since moving to France, back in 1997. The French like to have a bit of a burn-out in July, whereas we pefer November 5th. Our event was on Saturday the 8th - a good night [...]