Archive for: October 2009

October 30, 2009

And Monarchs to Behold the Swelling Scene

Filed under: Diary, Techie Stuff, Websites, twiku - 30 Oct 2009

Well – anyone really.

A year away from the Hurly Burly of Internet an a couple of months back in and it is a can of worms.

So I am testing some old ideas of “popularity”, for example This is a

October 27, 2009

French Letters

Filed under: Diary - 27 Oct 2009

Alexandra, my daughter, helps me a lot with translations. I am impressed with the letters she has composed for me. However she has a secret weapon there is a website www.Conso.net which gives help

Guide2Languedoc

Filed under: Diary - 27 Oct 2009

I went to Bristol in the UK for a few hours last week to meet a publisher who is developing a network of websites.

Beziers airport is only twenty minutes from our home at VillaRoquetteand

Now I have Stopped Working – Not

Filed under: Diary - 27 Oct 2009

Now that I have stopped working (well almost) on the house, I am back to marketing and getting guests for our apartments and BandB. We first started this in our old home in

A Bargain Property in the South of France

Filed under: Diary - 27 Oct 2009

Would you like your own home in the South of France? It is a dream shared by most of the visitors I meet here and, after a quiet year with most of the world (according

Starting a Business in France

Filed under: Diary - 27 Oct 2009

Carole and I are back into the maze of French paperwork to get our gites and chambre d’hotes registered as a business – a new system, Auto Entrepeneur, now exists and we found an excellent

I discovered that that the Via…

Filed under: Diary - 27 Oct 2009

I discovered that that the Via Domitia starts at Pertuis , and will always definitely finish at eight o’clock – with a French lecturer.

Shades of Spike Milligan

Filed under: Diary - 27 Oct 2009

I remember a 1950s TV show by the “Goons” called “Son of Fred”, I think there was one