There’s a nice advert on French TV at the moment for fruit yoghurt. At least, nice in artistic terms. They’ve clearly studied their target market - young children - and they’re advertising to them. What is exceptionally clever is the way they’re also targetting parents with a scary statistic.
“9 out of 10 French children don’t […]

I’ve had quite a productive weekend, in spite of the heat. We went to buy some parquet flooring for the baby’s room, and I’ll be taking some time off in the week to fit it with a friend. I managed to get most of the housework done Saturday, so today has been relaxed. Friends came […]

Today I spent most of the day shopping. First of all in Géant Casino the local hypermarket, where the mission was to buy a cot and mattress for the nursery. We also ended up with a water thermometer, a baby bath, some sheets for the bed and more baby clothes. That combined with the regular […]

Between feeding our friends’ cat - 5 minutes walk away - while they’re away and making sure I look after Yasmina properly it’s not easy to get much time to write. It was a difficult weekend, I was mostly at home alone cleaning the flat, shopping and the mundane routine stuff or at […]

Yasmina had a nasty surprise today, finding out mid afternoon that she had been bleeding. She leaves work early on a Friday so luckily was already preparing to leave for home. She called me while I was still at work, and I really didn’t know what to do. Should she go to hospital in Paris, […]