Here’s fun to brighten up a dull February day. Take some shallow containers of varying sizes and shapes and pour in about 1cm of water, leave outside overnight to freeze (or pop in the freezer if you are impatient, like me). Gather up some pretty stuff, I used gorse flowers, some sort of dried seed […]
I love a good drying day, I do. Not much pleases me more than seeing laundry flapping about in a soft Summer breeze, but then, (and Bob will beg to differ here) I am easily pleased. Especially by free things. Most villages around here still boast a communal ‘laverie’ by the river. In the days […]
Bob is teaching himself to play the saw. Each evening, he gets out his bow and strikes up. I’m fine with it….honestly….. his strangled practicings have an eerie but strangely comforting vibe, even if he has yet to play two notes in a recognisable order. He’s getting better at it but says he needs a […]
It’s early December. I’m walking in the forest, resisting the urge to pick up yet more fir cones and trying not to think about the fast-dwindling amount of shopping days left ’til Christmas. The air is crisp, the sky is icy-blue and the remaining beech leaves are almost glowing with their strange luminosity. Their less […]
A Guest Post By Our Special Atoll Correspondent. Whilst trawling around on the internet recently, I chanced upon some photographs of the tiny atoll of Tematangi, way down in the south Pacific ocean. The photos instantly reminded me that, way, way back, in another life, I had lived there. Not for very long you understand, […]
When we first came to live in these parts my French vocab was a bit limited. In addition to “pain” and “vin”, another word I knew was “champignon” and I remember being amazed at how many times, when earwigging in the supermarket queue or in the bar, this one word would keep cropping up. It seemed […]
Bob and I are getting on a bit and remember a time before we were all constantly plugged in to cyberspace. I’m only talking about the nineteen eighties, not the 1880’s, but even so, travelling back then was a different world. In some far flung places, I can remember having to book telephone calls back […]
Here at covertcabin we like to keep abreast of modern technologies and so when the opportunity arose to purchase a “portable, lightweight music player with no need of batteries or charger, in its own faux leather carrying case” naturally we jumped at the chance and snapped one up on-line. Admittedly, the parcel that duly arrived was […]
Having lived here in France for a number of years I have undoubtedly picked up a few French habits. My consumption of garlic and goat’s cheese are up, for sure and my Mum once reprimanded me over an irritating Gallic style shrug that I had unknowingly developed. Some things remain mysterious though. I’ve never enjoyed playing Pétanque or felt the urge to hurl […]
“Mutual understanding is at the heart of any good relationship. Often, we misread the signs others give out and misinterpret their intentions and that’s when problems can arise”. This was how my ‘Mistress’ explained it to me when I had to have yet another swipe at that damn dawg. But when I sees ‘im gaily wagging his […]
