Les Poissonchats

Planning Christmas Dinner, for me, is a very serious and, as far as merriment goes along with solemnity, happy business. Come the first fairylights and wreaths of the season and a significant portion of my thoughts are taken up with the question of all questions: What will there be for Christmas Dinner!  All my Christmas… Read more

When I was little I was taught to always be polite and whenever I’d cross someone in the street, that I was to greet them and smile. Now that was easy in the village, where everybody knew everyone, but I remember it got quite complicated in town. Also there were so many people, and I… Read more

Now tartan probably is more of a Scottish, and then British maybe or even American thing (think Ralph Lauren) but I can’t but feel ever so nostalgic around tartan on Christmas. I’m still looking for a wide and ample taffetta tartan skirt and until I have found it, my beautiful tartan throw will have to… Read more

This is the WHAM! sequel I suppose. When I learnt to ski I was a tiny tot, back in the days there were no queues at the lifts and people would wear anoraks in screaming colours. My skiing teacher probably was very good looking, back in the days skiing teachers all were very good looking,… Read more

Do you tell stories? Not to your children, I mean, but stories, to your friends. The story of your last holiday, or the story of a chance encounter on the train, or the story of you growing wings.  In the old days, these long and dark winter months were the months of storytelling. There isn’t… Read more

You don’t necessarily eat it just around Christmas, in fact, it’s a staple all around winter, Eating Fondue with Friends. It’s too simple and stinky to be modern and in a hygienist world everybody’s fork in the same pot seems quite the desecration, in short, so nostalgic! There’s a lot of rules around losing one’s… Read more