Our First French Wedding
As promised in an earlier blog, I would like to describe a French Wedding. Our first wedding was our daughters to a Frenchman, whose father had seven brothers and one sister. These relations all came...
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Our second French wedding was the brother of our son-in-law and a champagne heiress. There were oneor two differences to their wedding. Only close family attended the official ceremony at the Marie....
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The Annual Méchoui
The Spit Roast Adjusting the Mechanism The Mechanism All Cleared Away We have had the annual Méchoui on the Mont up behind our house -this is a lamb spit roast put on by our local hunters. The...
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Féte St Joan
It was Saturday evening and the time for the Fete St Joan had arrived. The guy now had her hat on and was also holding a bottle. My good friend and neighbour, Laurence, had prepared a beautiful...
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Confrérie du Sabre d’Or
The Standard We had an invitation to attended a ceremony of the ‘Caveau de Sabrage of the Confrérie du Sabre d’Or’, at the Château Savennes in the Auvergne....
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