Bonjour!
I hope that you just and yours are effectively.
How is it that June is right here already? I don’t learn about you, however this 12 months appears to be whizzing by and I can hardly imagine it’s simply a few weeks till summer season begins and the summer season concern of The Good Life France Journal can be out – I can’t wait to share it with you (subscribe right here free of charge).
In the meantime, again on the ranch, or slightly the little French farmhouse I name residence in rural northern France, there’s a lot pleasure. Oops I’ve finished it once more. Nicely really this isn’t my fault this time. I’m a serial collector of waifs and strays: cats, canines, hedgehogs, doves, chickens and geese included. However my different half, Mark, bumped right into a neighbour who invited him to see his canine’s puppies – he was looking for a house for them. I suppose you recognize what’s coming subsequent.
One among them seems to be similar to our beloved Ella Fitzgerald, probably the most loyal and loving canine ever, who sadly handed away some time again, we miss her a lot. Nicely, Mark got here residence and informed me it was love at first sight for him, so he persuaded me to go and take a look on the pet. She was in a cage together with her sister and I’ve to say they had been very grubby and unkempt which tugged at my coronary heart strings, after which they cried once they had been separated so… we took them each. Since we have already got two very boisterous Labrador pups (Reggie and Ronnie), who reached their first birthdays this week, life goes to be much more enjoyable than typical! Fortunately we’ve got an enormous backyard, dwell within the countryside the place we will stroll for miles, have room for them in the home, and loads of room in our hearts. So welcome to our ever-growing furry and feathered household Nina (Simone) and Woman (Ella), (right here they’re on Instagram)!
In the meantime, I’m off to Rouen in Normandy subsequent week for the Armada, a gathering of tall ships, and a wonderful festive and enjoyable occasion that’s held each 4 years. I’ll be sleeping aboard a tall ship and crusing down the Seine as fireworks go off on the opening evening – and I’ll share photographs and movies on Instagram.
Typically I feel, blinking hell Janine, you do make your self busy however then I bear in mind one thing my late dad informed me. He mentioned that he had discovered from life that in order for you one thing, you need to work very arduous to make it occur, hope for a little bit of luck as a result of typically arduous work isn’t sufficient, be humble and grateful to those that help you alongside the best way, and all the time say sure if the prospect to do one thing adventurous comes up as there are solely so many tomorrows. And I simply wish to say how totally grateful I’m to everybody who reads my publication, shares it, and messages me, and to those that learn my books (and go away me pretty opinions!), and for studying my journal, partaking on social media and listening to my podcast. Thanks from the underside of my coronary heart.
Now, I’m off to groom the cats, stroll Ronnie and Reggie, be sure Doris the Dove has recent water, clear out the rooster coops and cuddle Woman and Nina – wishing you a really bon weekend from my little zoo!
Wishing you a really bon weekend from a bit of nook of rural northern France from me and my canines, cats, chickens, geese and geese!
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Bisous from my little nook of France,
Janine
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Janine Marsh is Writer of My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream, My 4 Seasons in France: A 12 months of the Good Life and Toujours la France: Dwelling the Dream in Rural France all out there as e book, print & audio, on Amazon in every single place & all good bookshops on-line.
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