The Meeple Letters – New Travel Blog

16 Sep 201616 Sep 2016

The Meeple family are about to spend 3 months abroad and invite you to join their adventures. With enough thermal underwear to clad a small zeplin and a smattering of…

Mondayitis – Tweed Underpants?

12 Sep 2016

Australians it seems are generally known for the sunniness of their tempers. Those from the "lucky country" have grown up soaked in sunshine and few have ever known snow. We…

French Friday – I am off!

2 Sep 2016

It has been a long time in the planning but it is soon going to happen. I am off to live in Paris for a while! Take one French obsessed…

Let Down Your Hair

11 Aug 201525 Aug 2015

It's Flash Fiction time again! I do hope you enjoy another Lowenbrau Family tale of 166 words... Let Down Your Hair Grandmamma and Grandpapa Lowenbrau, Great Aunt Eunice, Mother, Little…

Weird Fruit of a Humid Climate

30 Jul 201530 Jul 2015

Visiting the Cu Chi tunnels was a strange and very sad experience while visiting Vietnam. It was also extraordinarily surreal as we started the tour with a 30 minute ancient…

Font of wisdom

30 Jun 201525 Aug 2015

Grandmamma and Grandpapa Lowenbrau, Mother, Little Wendy, Great Aunt Eunice and the “Danger twins” returned from their rambles about Marie Antoinette’s Hameau de la Reine and found themselves by Le Brun’s…

Blue and White St Malo

17 Jun 201518 Jun 2015

What is it about blue and white that seems to appeal to the human eye? It it the suggestion of a sky, dappled with clouds? The craze of blue and…

Papa Bouilloire Chapter The End

13 Jun 201513 Jun 2015

Papa Bouilloire Goes to Oxford – Chapter The End I tottered down the cobblestones back to Magdalen expecting that the old Sainsbury bags appending from my arms would burst at…

A great big THANK YOU!

10 Jun 20159 Jun 2015

In the last week two very exciting things happened (well at least I thought they were exciting) Since starting blogging in November last year the blog has had 10 000…

Mondayitis – Perles before Porc

8 Jun 20158 Jun 2015

Have you ever suddenly found yourself realising that what you thought moments before was a doting audience hanging upon every word that dropped from your lips was actually a mindless…

Cancale and Oyster Naturalle

7 Jun 20157 Jun 2015

Cancale is but a little detour on the way to Mont St Michel from St Malo and is well worth a visit. Known as the "Oyster Capital" of Brittany, its…

Papa Bouilloire Chapter the Fourteenth

5 Jun 20155 Jun 2015

Papa Bouilloire Chapter the last (almost) Alas dear reader it is true. It is time to ring down the curtain on these, my fabulous adventures in Oxford, for this was…

Papa Bouilloire, in absentia

29 May 201529 May 2015

Alas dear readers, Papa Bouilloire's tales, enjoyed by the select few, are on hold for a week due to difficulties with the mail. With but two installment left in the…

Papa Bouilloire Chapter the Thirteenth

22 May 2015

Papa Bouiloire Goes to London My dear friends, Despite my attachment to Oxford, my Esteemed Colleage had encouraged me repeatedly to go for one day to London. I had already…

Mondayitis – To Beard or not to Beard

18 May 201518 May 2015

Mondayitis – To beard or not to beard? I awoke today to find myself in the middle of an existential crisis, which is typical for a Monday. While the torrential…