Les Miserable

If you have read my piece on the Lavoirs, you may well agree that they look bewitching in the summer sun, gleaming white linen, reflecting the rays of a French summers sun but can you imagine what it was like in the winter. Well imagine no longer Victor Hugo’s “les mis” captures the horrors of [...]

Lavoirs of the Auvergne

You are never far from the past in the Auvergne, it intrudes into the present in many ways, the small family farms, still maintained by a family, the grandparents herding the flocks as actively as the young repair fences. The lavoirs that exist in almost every village remind us rudely of times past. Beautifully restored [...]

What's in the box?

One of the great things about rooting around in a second-hand/flea-market/jumble sale type places, is you NEVER know what you might find. As I posted a few days ago, whilst looking for household items, but always keeping my eyes open for ANYTHING interesting I stumbled upon this box.

Fairly plain ordinary box, shoved under a lot [...]