by loirevalleychateau | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
When I first met Cleone, she informed me I was “a silly boy” – I was then aged forty-five. Over the next eight years, Cleone often had cause to remark upon my foolish ways, and one of her time-proven cures for self-pity was working in her garden. Thanks to her,...
by loirevalleychateau | Aug 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
As I write this, I am listening to One-Way Pendulum by The Johnny Scott Quartet and watching the start of a thunderstorm. It is one of those August evenings where the gaps in the clouds illuminate the sunflowers, and if I were feeling even more pseud-like than usual,...
by loirevalleychateau | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
May has seem no fewer than three Bank Holidays in the UK. In the next blog, we’ll feature the French alternatives but for now, and as I am in a nostalgic mood, here are ten reasons why life at the Chateau is better than a typical British Bank Holiday outing of the...
by loirevalleychateau | May 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
How many readers have considered the joys of nothing? By that, I do not meansitting before the television screen as a combination of Judge Rinder andEmmerdale slowly reduces your intellect to a level somewhere below a trafficbollard. No, my vision is relaxing in the...
by loirevalleychateau | Apr 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sometimes the work of a humble blog writer is most challenging. Only a fewweeks ago, I begged the family to send me a few images of them enjoying lifeat the Chateau. ‘Let the photographs capture your trip’s many and variedpleasures,’ I begged. ‘Let “Joie de Vivre” be...
by loirevalleychateau | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
This blog is being written on the second day of Lent 2023, which might explain the author’s notably happy and equable temperament. On Shrove Tuesday, the kitchen was indeed depleted of its stock of eggs and butter, yet if we were celebrating in French fashion, our...
