Hey, wonderful news! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

And this one is a ONE year Blogiversary!

And what year the last year has been!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Andy at Prunings from the Vines

Prunings from the Vines first appeared on the internet on the 21st of January 2010 with the words… The First Cut with Andy showing off his impressive stack of firewood!

And less than a week later Andy is talking about one of those life changing moments when he first got his hands on… Led Zepplin II and….

“Life would surely never be the same again!”

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Hey, wonderful news! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

And this one is a One year Blogiversary!

And what a lot of blogging she’s done in that time!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Delana at Du Jour

Du Jour first entered out lives on Wednesday the 20th of Januar 2010 with… The Gift – and what a gift it was!

Before long Delana was explained what she had done to her husband in … Kick Him to the Curb and that’s when I started taking notice of the blog.

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Hey, wonderful news! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

And this one is a FIVE year Blogiversary!

I didn’t think Blogging was invented that long ago!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Lucy at Lucy’s Kitchen Notebook

Lucy’s Kitchen Notebook first served up some delightful food for us on the 19th of January 2006 with a delicious posting on… Tourtes which was an excellent appetiser for what was to come!

The next post was all about … Tripes which had me salivating like one of those dogs who dribbles quite a lot and whose name I have totally forgotten!

And from there things have been getting better and better al the time! You’re never going to run out of ideas for something to cook if you pop in here from time to time!

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Hey, wonderful news! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

And this one is a SIX year Blogiversary!

They ought to invent a medal for blogging so long!!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Lesley at Peregrinations

Peregrinations first burst into life on the 19th of January 2005 with the words… I take it all back which, thankfully, she didn’t as we would have missed out on a load of great blog posts if she had!

Before long she was asking questions such as… Would Hardy have blogged? and you know….

I’m not sure he would have done so. I know that towards the end of his life he stopped writing fiction and concentrated on poetry saying something along the lines as….

“I’m really not sure why I bothered with the fiction for so long?”

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Hey, wonderful news! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

And this one is a ONE year Blogiversary!

Well someone has been very busy and made lots of blogging friends in that short time!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Sion at paris (im)perfect

paris (im)perfect first started making us drool on the 13th of January 2010 with the words… Imperfection as Possibility which finds Sion pondering about whether to start a blog or not.

And only six weeks later Sion shares a visit to the gynecologist with us in… You Want To Stick Your What Where? and I’ll leave you to read the answer to that in your own time!

Clearly this was going to be the sort of well written blog that I was going to enjoy reading!

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Hey, wonderful news! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

And this one is a ONE year Blogiversary!

And 55 scrumptious post in only a year is a great start!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Barbara at Cuisine de Provence

Cuisine de Provence served its first course on the 10th of January 2010 wishing us… Happy New Year 2010 – and, with all this food on offer, it certainly was!

Barbara quickly got down to business with a nice… Lentil Stew to Beat the Winter Blues and very tasty it was too!

Barbara said… “This one goes very well with a good red from Côtes du Rhône which was exactly what we and our American friends had last night.”

Ooh… don’t you just love meals that go well with a nice Côtes du Rhône?

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Hey, wonderful news! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

And this one is a ONE year Blogiversary!

How time flies!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Lydia at Lydia’s France

Lydia’s France first started to brighten our days on the 8th of January 2010 with the words… 2010 Already! Memories of life in a rural village in France in the early 1900s and Lydia was kind enough to say… “A big hello to everyone! My name is Lydia. I am half English and half French. I am 37 years old and I am sitting in a little farmhouse, lost in the french countryside. Outside it is a snowy -7 degrees, the children are dismantling the room next door and my dog is chewing the rug. What better time to sit down to write the very first post on my very first blog?!”

Her posts were soon covering ll manner of ground, including my favourite… Steak Tartare where the questions was asked….

“What is worse, eating horse meat or…”

“Eating it raw?”

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Hey, wonderful news! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

And this one is a SIX year Blogiversary!

And six years is rather a long time to be blogging!

I didn’t know they had computers that long ago!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Alex at A Languedoc Journal

A Languedoc Journal first burst into our lives on the 7th of January 2005 with the words… Where to start? which is probably a reasonably good question to ask!

Before long Alex gets into his stride with wonderful posts like… And the next conversation goes like this… which made me wet myself laughing!

I probably should mention at this point that I do tend to wet myself rather a lot these days anyway but… the post did make me laugh!

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Hey, wonderful news! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

And this one is a TWO year Blogiversary!

And it seems just like yesterday that it started off!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Kathryn at Equine Rescue France

Equine Rescue France first appeared on the internet on the 6th of January 2009 and has been going strong ever since!

Along the way we’ve seen some shocking things but, we’ve all had good news when horses and donkeys have been successfully re-homed.

And the blog has moved to a new home at www.equinerescuefrance.org

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Hey, wonderful news! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

And this one is a three year Blogiversary!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Gillian at A Bitch About Brittany

A Bitch About Brittany first started making music for us on the 8th of November 2007 with a post about Harmony and Chaos which contains the words… “A volley of gunfire comes from the nearby thicket, and a group of hunters burst from the undergrowth with an uncontrolled pack of short-legged Breton hounds which race up and try to distract the lone retriever. I exchange annoyed glances with the vet. An uneasy truce exists between hunters and trackers, since we all get in each others way. The men greet us casually and then stroll off in noisy disorder to the adjoining maize field, dogs trailing untidily in the rear. And three anal-obsessive women stare after them, before continuing the serious business of getting a dog to follow a smell.”

Anal-obsessive women, hunters and dog smelling? What a great mixture; I wish I’d thought of that!

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Take a look at this! Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

Yes, a first Blogiversary!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Sarah at Three Years in Provence

Three Years in Provence opened its doors to us on the 5th of November 2009 with the cautious words… “For starters, I’m not a writer, I’m not very witty, and our life is not that exciting. But, I am starting a blog about our transition to life in France anyway. And if no one reads it, other than my sisters, that’s cool. My intention is for the blog to be a journal of some of our family’s adventures.”

Well Sarah, I imagine that quite a few people visit your site. I certainly do!

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Hey! You know what? Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

Yes, and this time it’s a four year Blogiversary!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Lucy at Box Elder

Box Elder first shone it’s light on the blogosphere on the 3rd of November 2006 with the explaination… “So, why box elder? A box elder was the tree I grew up under.
We didn’t know it was a box elder, we called it the maple tree, which is indeed what it was also, a kind of, not an elder at all. For much of my life I was not aware of seeing another like it, but on coming to France I’ve seen many, and much more recently, having acquired a good tree reference book, I’ve finally established its proper identity.
I shall write more on this tree, but for now, I am very tentatively finding my way around this blog, so let that be all for now.”

Over the last four years I’ve grown to love this blog. Obviously I’m biased because Lucy lives and takes her gorgeous photos in beautiful Brittany (where I also live) but any visitor to Box Elder can hardly fail to be entranced.

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You know what? Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

Yes, and this time it’s another two year Blogiversary!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Dedene at Bienvenue Chez Moi

Bienvenue Chez Moi burst onto the scene on the 2nd of November 2008 by saying… “I’ve been following so many blogs lately, some very beautiful and entertaining. I figured that I might have something to say as well.
After twenty years here in France, I do believe that I belong here. Changing countries is always difficult, at best. The whole expatriate process is quite complicated. I’ll talk about that in another post.”

Well, you know, Dedene certainly has had something to say and now, 219 posts later, her blog is an invaluable resource for anyone living in France or thinking of doing so! It’s also got loads of great recipes!

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You know what? Today we’ve not just got one blogiversary!

We’ve got two!

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to An English Rose in France and A Lady in France (who used to be the blog known as Perfect Welcome)

I’ll start with An English Rose in France

An English Rose in France began life on the 30th of October 2008 with the some pictures of Me and My Family and the now famous words… “Paul and myself, this year celebrating our silver wedding anniversary, as well as my hubby he’s my bestest friend and soul mate. He would be perfect except he snores and farts in his sleep.”

And I believe that Mr Chapman has been living that down for the past two years – I understand that wherever he goes, Roz’s husband, Paul gets accosted by complete strangers asking him… “‘ere, you’re not that chap who snores and farts in bed, are you?”

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You know what? Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

Yes, and this time it’s a two year Blogiversary!

I don’t think we’ve had one of those before?

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Cynthia at www.American-in-France.com

www.American-in-France.com began life on the 29th of October 2008 with the words… “I’m an Italophile. I love Italy. I love and speak the language, adore the food, find the people very entertaining and charming, have traveled to 73 Italian towns, studied there as an undergraduate, vacationed there for 20 years, and even lived there from 1998-2000 (that’s another story I’ll tell you one day). I’ve never been a Francophile. In fact, I went to Paris in 1979, was so turned off by the people, I never returned to France in all these years, even though it bordered on Italy and I’ve been within a stone’s throw many times.

Every year I returned to Italy for vacation and, just to stay out of a rut, I added another country on to my annual treks…Malta, Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, Slovenia. I was running out of countries, so one year I decided it was time to do France. I figured how toxic could Provence be? I, like many Americans, had succumbed to the media and political propaganda of the ‘snobbish, rude, arrogant, self-centered French’ – an almost daily meal fed to us in the States. Even still, I decided to venture out and, a one hour flight from Naples to Nice landed me on a train headed to Avignon, a city in Provence. That’s where fate caught up with me.”

And, to find out more, you’ll have to visit www.American-in-France.com to see what happened next!

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You know what? Today we’ve got another blogiversary!

Yes, and this time it’s a three year Blogiversary!

I don’t think we’ve had one of those before?

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to Ann Mah.

Ann Mah burst onto the scene on the 23rd of October 2007 with the words… “Welcome to my new blog! L’il ol’ luddite me is still figuring out the mechanics, but here are some things to look for soon:

Cooking the Books: Hundreds of cookbooks are published each year. They’re glossy and beautiful, but are the recipes any good? My reviews feature recipe testing, to help you determine if you should buy the book.

The Outlaw Chef: in which I willfully modify recipes to suit my own tastes/diet.

Other recently published articles and musings from a hungry person.

Thanks for stopping by and please come back soon!”

I bet we’ve all stopped by and come back many times – it’s a great blog!

Ann’s blog is a melange of foodie posts that make you feel both hungry but full up at the same time (if you know what I mean?)

Excellent photos are combined with friendly words – it’s almost like having your own personal food teacher giving you some helpful advice.

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Well, you lucky people, today we have, not one, but two blogiversaries!

And they’re both 5 year Blogiversaries!

How weird is that?

So, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, I’d like to wish a Happy Blogiversary to C’est la me… and to WCS.

I’ll start with C’est la me… – ladies first, and all that!

C’est la me… came into the world on the 16th of October 2005 with the words… “Fred and I are moving in six weeks. I can’t believe how quickly time is passing. Luckily, most of our items are packed; however, there still is a lot to do.”

All I can say is.. “isn’t there always so much to do?”

Amy’s blog tells of her life with her husband, Frédéric who she met in November 2001, the evening of the Leonid Meteor shower at a house-warming party in Hayes Valley

Eventually they moved, along with their cat Bilbo, to France so that she could experience Fred’s culture and learn his language (which she sadly discovered could not be done by consuming French wine and cheese alone).

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You know, I’m really as pleased as punch, on behalf of all the visitors to A Taste of Garlic, to wish a Happy Blogiversary to A Slice of Ex-Pat(é).

Yes!  I know it’s hard to believe but A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) is five years old today!

A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) started life on the 13th of October 2005 with the words… “Well, this is it. This is my first post on our ‘WeBlog’! As I’m reasonably used to IT, (Information Torture), and no stranger to telling a few tales, we should get along fine!”

“What this is about is simply – us! Our family, the place we live in, (France), and our attempts to settle here, be accepted by our neighbours, make friends, buy chainsaws…..you know the type of thing? Good! Then I’ll begin….”

What a fantastic start to a blog!

Stu, the Yorkshireman in France whose random musings we follow on this blog, even got in an early mention of chainsaws!

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