About

An optimist

Mother of five boys (ages 18–3 when I started the blog around 2013/4), affectionately known as: the Prodigal, the Face, the Prof, the Lips, and Fatty

Parent of a… well, THIS step-family: Family A (two eldest) and Family B (three youngest)

Married to a Frenchman and living in France — kids included

Rubbish at French

Very bad at birth control

Lives in the village of Nowhere, within the French département of Also Nowhere

Has a dog and then ended up with another one

Comes from a large family: 8 siblings, Irish parents, raised in England

Despite all of the above, maintains a sense of humour… which occasionally FAILS

Note: Points aren’t listed in order of importance. If they were, “has a dog” would clearly be first.

And I don’t live in Paris but I did take this image