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For Friends in Fromelles

  Please drop in and say hello.  Even if I can’t speak French I would love to meet you and encourage you to play with some clay with me. Beinvenue Debby

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Vegetable soup for my soul – delicious

I have a bit of a sore throat today lucky I bought a stock of cough lollies from home smile emoticon .  And I am thanking Brigitte – bless her. Look what she brought me today. I was really cold today … Continue reading

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Twitching Fromelles

What a wonderful morning  I went for my first ever bird watching walk today in the woods of Fromelles. Yes I was a “twitcher” for a few hours. It was wonderful and so many birds, starlings, woodpeckers, blackbirds, blue tits, wrens … Continue reading

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My first French Students

These are my first French students.  The boys had a wonderful time making Kangaroos and Koalas.  I had trouble explaining a wombat though 🙂   Merci boys   Debby xxx  

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May Flowers

The people of Fromelles are so lovely.  Today a lady brought me some may flowers. Apparently it is tradition to give May Flowers to friends on 1st May. How lovely are these.   and I have been putting Mullumbimby on the … Continue reading

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Pheasant Wood

This afternoon I ventured into Pheasant Wood.  It is in this place that 250 Australian Soldiers were buried and lay unidentified until 2009. Then an Aussie school teacher decided to do some research and found the grave site.  After much … Continue reading

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Playing with clay today

Bonjour dear friends  Today thanks to the kindness of Jean Pierre I have some photos of me playing with clay.  Jean Pierre has been helping me with materials  More later my friends   Debby  

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Alert not alarmed :)

I was up early this morning and probably so was the rest of the village because I managed to set the alarm to the building off not once but twice – Oh dear. I think I have it sorted now. … Continue reading

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25 April 2015 ANZAC Day in France

It was an early start.  I was up at 1:30 am (in the morning) to go Villes Bretonneau for the ANZAC Dawn Service.  What an emotionally stunning service.  I only have the one picture because it was raining and there were … Continue reading

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Scouting Out New Friends in Fromelles

A big hello to the scouts from Bayview NSW http://bayviewseascouts.com/index.htm who were at the Pheasant Wood ANZAC ceremony and the students from Perth Australia who participated in the ceremony.   This hat belonged to the son of a man who … Continue reading

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