A Taste of Garlic

Lydia’s France is still quite a young blog.

However, there is enough substance there for me to be able to review it and certainly enough for it to be worth a visit or two.

Lydia writes very thoughtfully (as befits someone who is working on her first novel) about old France, food and her daily life.  Take a look at A Gentle Giant to see what I mean.

In the same genre, I also liked A Mother’s Lot.  That’s a post that everyone should read, the next time they think they are hard done by!

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Dirty Feet and Rubble in my Hair is Roz’s blog which follows on from her Old Blog With The Same Name.

Roz mainly writes about her main interests, her animals, her husband and her home.

And, amongst the more sensible stuff, you can find posts about Bathtub Sledging (surely a sport for the next  Winter Olympics?) and we say Goodbye to Crispy and Bombay (the ducks).

And then, in Roast Duck, we eat them.

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I’m not sure how I came across Blog in France but I’m glad I did.

The blog is sub-titled life, love and llamas in Limousin but it is so, so much more than that.  It is the tale of a family who have alpacas called Seamus and Brendan (there are plenty of others as well), and also a guinea-pig called Archer.

Now we also have a guinea-pig but ours is called Soon to be roasted and served with a chestnut brandy sauce!

And before all you animal rights people start getting worried;  I was only joking!  I do know that an Apricot and White Wine reduction is how it should be done!

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The Frog Blog is maintained by Frankofyle who can be best summed up by this extract from this blog post (Tough Cookie)….

For a bohemian hermit recluse comme moi, the thought of having guests is absolutely terrifying. So when old college chumette and fellow blogger ‘countrybumpkin’ confirmed last week that she’d be visiting for a few days, I immediately flew into a blind panic. So much to do! – clear flies and cobwebs out of the big loft room, make up bed, clean kitchen (an impossible task), scrub loo with disinfectant, make washbasin area fit for human useage (or as close as possible), sweep stairs, sling out dog beds and blankets for an airing, open all windows and attempt to get rid of overpowering dog smells, get some grub and vino in, shake tobacco, breadcrumbs and dog hairs off settee blankets…, the list is endless.

I like that.  I seem to have much in common with Frankofyle (or he with me).  Perhaps that’s why I find this blog such a joy to read.

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