OK, so you’re bored with Brexit. I get it. So am I. But what do they mean by No Deal ? I mean in a kind of normal, day to day … Continue reading No Deal ? WTF ?
Author: natamagat
Random thoughts from a French incomer in rural England.
Interested in the love/hate relationship between the English and the French (unavoidable), community matters (they affect us whatever nationality),
tourism (my original career with an MA in Tourism albeit a French one),
photography (images speak a thousand words, although only the good ones),
and words (mostly English words with a few French ones thrown in)
Pardon my Franglais if you will.
Dear Mrs May, citizens’ rights first ?
This letter is in answer to Mrs May’s open letter of reassurance to EU citizens dated 19 October 2017. ——— Dear Mrs May, thank you for your letter ‘to EU … Continue reading Dear Mrs May, citizens’ rights first ?
My country was attacked, again.
As have other countries. I phoned home at the crack of dawn to find out if my family was ok. They might have been celebrating on the Promenade of The … Continue reading My country was attacked, again.
For bananas’ sake
People keep talking about Alt-news as if it was some new American invention. Come on Brits, be proud, have Alt-News like straight bananas not been spewed for years out of … Continue reading For bananas’ sake
My British children: no guarantees
My having British children, now almost grown up, does not guarantee my rights to stay in the UK after we leave the EU any more than being married to a … Continue reading My British children: no guarantees
Hiding under the mist
It’s been a strange time since July. Unsettling. There seems to be clouds surrounding me, the sun wants to come out but it’s hidden away by millions of droplets of … Continue reading Hiding under the mist
Vive la revolution?
British people don’t do revolution, have been told for years. Well, this sure feels like a revolution, in an English kind of way. Theresa May maybe, but what next?
Window onto a Spring evening
Evening walks around the hills of West Dorset open windows onto valleys and further hills, bluebells swaying gently in the wind, catching the last light of the setting sun…
EU referendum: no pressure
“Tough” she said. “If you want to vote in the referendum, you should have taken the British nationality”. I should have seen it coming. And to a point, I agree … Continue reading EU referendum: no pressure
A Dorset Year
My new cooperation with Maddie Grigg on her latest blog, A Dorset Year.
Pardon my Franglais 