Fiona Alderman: More of Fifi’s story from Rural France
Mushrooms in the cellar We take them for granted our lovely “champignons de Paris” and I hadn’t realised where they had really come from? They are now in fact cultivated in underground caves in the Loire region of France and have become both a culinary delight as well as a tourist attraction. However, they’ve been […]
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Friday, March 27, 2015 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman, blogging from Rural France, February, 2015
Thinking back I wonder where the last 15 years have gone – on a hot weekend in February we were sitting out enjoying a wine or two in celebration of buying this house in Salignac. It was unusually warm and Barry got sunburned on the back of his head! This year it has been freezing […]
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Sunday, March 1, 2015 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman: Sad News From France
Plunged into silence I am sure very few people outside of France would have known about the satirical newspaper”Charlie Hebdo”. I myself knew about it but had never bought it. By now, of course, everyone around the world knows. The whole of France has been shocked by the terrible events. I listened on the radio […]
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Sunday, January 25, 2015 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
A Special Christmas Wish from Fiona Alderman blogging from Rural France
A Special Christmas Wish A Private View in Salignac The beautiful 11th century former Convent in Salignac, now owned by a delightful French family, opened its doors last weekend, to host a unique exhibition of paintings. From time to time, they hold private viewings of paintings,sculpture, patchwork and of musical events. All are unusual and […]
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman with Top News from Salignac
Pussycats plus three We had a lovely surprise in our house these last few weeks with the arrival of three little kittens.The mummy, called Mo, had been looking a bit fatter than usual but we didn’t think anything untoward. Especially as she had been on a special cat pill and is nearly 12 years old! […]
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Thursday, November 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman: Glaswegian blogging from rural France, October 2014
News From Sillygnac.ie Salignac BB is 80 Yes, the iconic figure Brigitte Bardot ie BB, as they call her in France, was 80 recently. A national treasure who wowed us all in the 60’s with her glamourous lifestyle and equally fabulous love life, was seen in a rare interview on French TV. Certainly she has […]
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman’s blog. One September in Rural France
“Le Peste seller” I did predict it on this very page. The ex First lady of France, Valerie Trierweiler, has written a best seller of a book, denouncing her partner Francois Hollande. She calls it “Merci pour ce moment” a slightly sarcastic title. It was advertised as” le peste seller” as she is being taken […]
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Friday, October 3, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman’s blogging from rural France: A Strange August in Salignac
A strange August in Salignac The Tree of Life I have found this last month extremely difficult to understand. Where do I begin? I started to tell you that last month, with the lack of tourists was worrying, but it has continued. I have never seen such a year and it has ben a real […]
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Friday, August 29, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
A Summer Story from Salignac by Fiona Alderman
Festivals and Visitors We are having quite a busy July with one thing and another. We were at a local fête where Barry is holding a photographic exhibition later on in the year, and we thought we would go along to have a look. Called “Artistes en liberté” there were artists, sculptors, basket weavers, ceramics, […]
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman’s Blog from Salignac, June 2014
Fifi’s story from rural France The tree of freedom. We were invited, as part of the commune, to witness the planting of the May tree recently. Not an everyday occurence but one not to be missed, as it is just in the Perigord that this tradition exists,and dates back to the Revolution These huge trees […]
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Friday, June 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman’s May Blog from Rural France
Fifi’s story from rural France. A May Tribute We were given a little bouquet of flowers recently , “muguets des bois” ie. lily- of -the valley, that are traditionally offered to friends and family on the Ist of May. These are given for luck and good health and are so pretty with their little bell […]
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Monday, May 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman blogging from rural France, April, 2014
Fifi’s story from rural France. A Royal return. We recently went to vote in the local elections here in sunny Salignac. We can also vote in the European ones too but not for the big job! This time was a little different , as there was just one candidate ie Monsieur Dubois our lovely mayor […]
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Friday, April 18, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman blogging from rural France: Springtime in Salignac
A new letter from Fifi Spring in Salignac We are finally enjoying Spring here,the flowers are opening, the buds are showing on the trees and our spirits are lifting after a long dreary winter . For once we haven’t had snow though and we shouldn’t complain at all, after what the UK has experienced . […]
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Blogging from rural France: Fiona Alderman, All the President’s women
Fifi’s Story from Rural France All the President’s women. I have to begin this months article with the news on Monsieur Hollande and his affairs of the heart. He was known as le President Normal but he has really done the mal part rather splendidly! Even French people were shocked to find this […]
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
A New Year’s Letter from France, Fiona Alderman
Coincidences in Glasgow We live in a relatively small village in rural France and the chances of reading “ English of Today” printed in 1964 in Glasgow are pretty limited I would have thought ? However I was wrong. My French neighbour, Renée , handed in some little books for me as she knew I […]
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Saturday, January 18, 2014 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
A Christmas Letter from France by Fiona Alderman
A Tribute to those who died I wanted to start this article with a tribute to those who were in the helicopter crash in Glasgow this month . As a native “Glaswegian” I was deeply affected to see the images at the Clutha bar that day . As it has unfolded, the tragedy has been […]
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Friday, December 20, 2013 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman – From Salignac to Miami
A Letter from France – Fifi’s Story I would never have believed I would be sitting in a small rural French village , talking to a funeral office in Florida. Of all the things we do here, one of them is I do translations and English lessons. A French neighbour , one who is not […]
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Saturday, November 23, 2013 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman with more news from the Dordogne
A Letter from France – Fifi’s Story . Wanted! There is a great piece of publicity displayed at the local Mairie at the moment . It is recruiting for doctors in rural France.However, it shows to my amusement, a very poor photo of “Dr House” and also the actor in “ Grey’s Anatomy”. I can’t […]
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
Fiona Alderman: A Letter from France – Fifi’s story
Colours have gender The summer is over although we are now experiencing a delightful Indian summer, where the light is particularly soft and good for photography . I have been out and about with my camera capturing the last fetes and markets in Salignac. The local church has one called La Kermesse which is a […]
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
A Letter from France – Fifi’s story – Fiona Alderman
Salignac Eyvigues in the south west of France. August 2013 The time to live Sometimes people are a bit shell shocked when they come to Salignac , because it is comparatively quiet to most people’s lives but they wonder why they are so tired mid week? . We call it the Wednesday Syndrome where it […]
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Thursday, August 29, 2013 | Filed under: Fiona Alderman blogging from The Salignac Foundation France
