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Middle-aged British woman starting life from scratch in France, where I was heading when certain nastinesses intervened. Defiant in the face of redundancy, serious illness, ageism (and all other vile -isms), I'm determined to find every iota of enjoyment in everyday life. So I cast a keen - and mostly sympathetic - eye over a broad spectrum of people, places, events and ideas (when not stuffing my face with cheese, that is).
- Author: Minnie Bannister
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Recent Posts
Top 50 rugbymen au monde en 2009?
official IRB rugby ball (illustration from Commons Wiki) As the end of the year is traditionally the time when we all look back, I thought this might be interesting for rugby fans: the sports journos on British broadsheet The Independent have come u...
Joyeux Noel/Feliz Navidad/Nollaig Shona Duit/Merry Christmas!
This Christmas I should like to report that I shall be eschewing all things glamorous and/or consumerist – virtue, you see, is its own reward (which is probably just as well, considering). Although, frankly, there’s absolutely sod-all r...
Going into injury time
The grimace is mine - all mine; the hunky punk's from Pilton (as in Glastonbury Festival) An amazingly unseasonal something going down in Nice on Friday night – snowfall. Most of the population took a dim view of this phenomenon, regarding ...
Persistent meditative state
Christine de Pisan & Queen Isabeau (detail; from Commons Wiki) The old schools of rhetoric teach that the proper approach to an entity is via its opposite. Musing about loss the other day, I resolved to approach the matter more objectively starti...
Over the rainbow with Olivier Millagou
Olivier Millagou exhibition slide from Galerie de la Marine site There’s always something happening in Nice, something diverting and rewarding – Nice, elle … bouge! And the entertainment’s often free, too. So ‘Over the Rainbow’ ...
Green shoots of recovery, or … ?
Many of us are now so familiar with organic farming that we’re almost blasé about farmers’ markets and the sight of organic produce shelves in supermarkets (always strikes me as a contradiction-in-terms somehow, that). And whichever stan...
