Blogetty Blog 18: Life in the Languedoc.

Provence and the neighboring region of Languedoc-Roussillon in the Southf of France are renowned worldwide as a shining haven of hedonism. My wife Vicki and I fell in love with the area during a visit in the summer of 1987 and after a brief search we bought a house in a dwindling village called Saint-Pons-la-Calm in the Languedoc. Like most historic villages in the Rhone region it was built…

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Blogetty Blog 17: A Primrose Path.

‘Harbinger’ is the word used to describe the sign-bearers that tell us spring is imminent. I had to look it up on Wiki for it is an uncommon word and I have used it with no idea what its derivation might be. Webster says it dates from early Middle Ages (1125-1175) and means a herald, ‘one that goes before’. ‘Harbinger of Spring’ is the common name of a small…

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