When I'm 64 there must be a Kirk Family Party! Bastille Week in Brittany ,,,,,,, There will be ‘knees up' for old friends, wives and children, known and unknown, of the last 60 odd years. Come, all of you and relax in France, eat Breton oysters and sip a good french Chablis or a clilled Gros...
A few days in Brittany while the RCVS appear to continue to delay my 6th application to be allowed to practice veterinary surgery. Having sorted out holiday makers in the cottages we are then off to the coast for a swim and collect oysters and boulot? off the beach. Then it was on to Lamballe to the...
Hello M is feeling much better and has sped off to Brittany on his motorbike. Or that was the unlikely story which went along the lines of: need to sort out accounts, the garden the cottage etc., etc. M obviously became bored v quickly as accounts, gardening, sorting out the cottage are not really his...
Just landed at St Malo harbour, Brittany, from Portsmouth on my Honda CBR 1000F to find my old car in the car park has disappeared. The French Authorities tolerate we local English leaving ‘old bangers' at the Ferry Terminal but not for this long! My un-planned extended stay in Texas, at ‘Uncle Sam's...
Breed of cow down the road? I drop gen off to try 2 daysof school.....loved it! George, a Jersey equivalent to why the "Toilers of the Sea "chappie suffered 16 years in Guernsey, mentions a caravan to go. Bought in minutes, blind, we are round in the "rope guided ford", rather like...
Well, as if running out of excuses, I think I have at last found the perfect spot to write those four books on four quite different subjects. Imagine, just a quiet Brittany country lane outside your door that only runs a few hundred yards to a farm and the great ten mile forest of Hardonnais. Across...
Awake at six from the ship’s horn as we enter St Malo harbour in the thickest of fog. I lug my baggage round to a back street to find my aging Ford automatic, literally dumped there as we had dashed on to Caen after last weeks birthday festivities. There’s a problem. The accelerator cable has broken...