This French Life

Winter Fuel Payment website highlights concerns and campaign work

WITH the Winter Fuel Payment for British pensioners in France set to end in autumn of this year, a website is available to highlight many... Read more →

Convicted killer arrested as body parts of missing Brit found

A man has been charged with the murder of an 80-year-old British woman living in southwestern France after police found a “mutilated” body in “two... Read more →

An 80-year-old Englishwoman still missing from her home in Lot-et-Garonne

GENDARMES are continuing their search for an 80-year-old Englishwoman missing from her home in the Lot-et-Garonne since the weekend. The Sud Ouest website reports that... Read more →

Remembering First World War link between Manchester and Charleville-Mézières

AN exhibition has opened that celebrates the ties between Manchester and the French town of Mézières - which reach back 100 years having been forged... Read more →

Why a Briton from Carcassonne plans to stand in UK General Election

JAMES Franklyn Jackson is an accountant and former treasurer of Colwyn Borough Council and later the Falkland Islands Government. He now lives in Carcassonne. Oh... Read more →

A single poppy in the sunshine

A SINGLE poppy has popped up close to the freshly turned vegetable patch, enjoying the spring sunshine like everyone else. Read more →

Pine processionary caterpillars on the march

I HAVE been seeing more lines of pine processionary caterpillars along the forest paths close to where I live here in the Dordogne. They have... Read more →

Now you don't really want to visit the Dordogne, do you?

THERE really is nothing to see around Bergerac in the Dordogne, no meandering rivers, deep mysterious forests or even any wine or food to savour.... Read more →

Loubejac at the end of the day

MUCH of France is enjoying a warm, sunny start to spring and all around the blossom is bursting from trees and bushes. Here in the... Read more →

Pollen levels in French towns and cities

ALTHOUGH the spring sunshine is welcomed by many, it is not greeted as warmly by those people who suffer from hay fever. Le Réseau National... Read more →