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Welcome to French Food Focus. The name describes the intent of this blog. I'll focus on food and because I live in rural France the stress will be upon French food. Not that I will limit myself to food only. There are numerous posts concerning life in France, comments on life in general and, certainly, opinions about anything that strikes my fancy.
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This is our village. Our house can be seen to the left of the picture.    

We've decided to downsize. You can go to this website for full details:
www.campdelmas.com.

OR

If you'd like a vacation in France we rent out part of the house as a gite. Have a look here: www.camp-del-mas.com.

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March 2010

Bits & Pieces

No big topics of late, but a few snippets of interest.

First, an on line film that I highly recommend. Its called "The Butterfly Circus". As far as I know its only online, lasts about 20 minutes, is beautifully filmed and is very moving.

 http://www.thedoorpost.com/hope/The%20Butterfly%20Circus/.

Is the URL to find it. I'm definitely going to explore more of the films made in this project. Its called The Doorpost  project and there seem to be a number of films done by independent producers. Judging by "The Butterfly Circus" there could well be some real gems! If you watch it please let me have your impressions & thoughts.

Of interest to me is the fact that I seem to have cracked a major problem in my golf game. I've always been plagued by topping the ball. I just wasn't consistent except off the tee where I was not long, but reasonably straight and consistent. My fairway shots, however, were too often pathetic topped efforts that didn't go far.
I've known that my eyesight is bad for the past ten + years. Ever since I got bashed in my left eye by a tennis ball. This created a blood clot that pushes on the lens of my eye making it impossible for me to focus properly. My right eye's OK, a slight amount of astigmatism, but no big deal there. I was told at the time that laser surgery had about a 50/50 chance of helping. Bad odds so I didn't go for it. (I'm going to check again as the procedures have improved a lot over the years)
Anyway it dawned on me that maybe I was topping the ball because my left eye was throwing me off. I tested this theory by practicing closing my left eye while chopping wood. It seemed to help my aim quite a bit.
I tried it out on the golf course yesterday and, wonder of wonders, it seemed to work. I was hitting the ball much more solidly. The only topped shots were when I forgot to close the left eye. Whoopee! I've got to practice this, hopefully this Friday weather permitting. I'm determined to break 100 before my age reaches that number. Watch this space.

Spring seems to be with us at last. Or at least the temperatures are up and the air feels balmy. That of course means gardening; not my favorite occupation, but it must be done I guess. In addition to cleaning up after Linda's pruning I cut our a big vine that was chocking our walnut tree this morning. Hope it helps as both Rupert & I love the walnuts so would hate to lost the tree.

Finally, I was interviewed for an American satellite radio station the other day. It was fun, mostly about life in France & how a Yank ended up here. Its supposed to be posted on the Internet as a podcast soon. I'll let you have the link once I get it. Who knows maybe I'll become a celebrity.