Wishing you a Merry Christmas Day filled with love and good things amongst family and friends and your beloved animals, of course! Thank you so much for your love and comments throughout the year on this blog, on Facebook and on Instagram – it has meant SO much to me. With all the fear and negativity in the world, one of the things we can do is love our family, friends and animals and be loved back. So have a wonderful day today. This is little ‘Indy’ posing for you. I rather think she wants it over and done with so she can get back to her sunbathing.
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Since living in France, all my dogs have been rescue dogs and are nearly always older dogs. Not many people adopt older dogs and truly they are the best! You are in need of love? Adopt an older dog!
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It’s not that I particularly like sepia – in fact, give me good ol’ black and white anytime. Or colour. But I belong to a small group of very sympa photographers and friends who get together in Menton and the surrounding villages to recreate the past in images of life as it was once lived. At the moment, we are ‘in the 1920s’ when sepia was still in use. In film photography, it was a chemical process carried out on silver-based photographic prints and had the advantage of being more resistant to the degradation of time. However, during the first decades of the 20th century this type of printing was being used less and less and by the 1930s had ended.
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Dogs are welcome in most restaurants and bars in France and Monaco, except perhaps the grandest. The American Bar in the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, for example, will serve your champagne (what else would you order in the Hotel de Paris?) And he’ll quickly return with a bowl of water served on a tray, laid with a white cloth, and a plate of dog biscuits should Monsieur le Chien be a little peckish.
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If you go to Naples – and please go to Naples – a city where life is lived on the streets and people are ready to smile and laugh at the smallest thing. The poor are rich. They have what really matters: family and community. And they are so open to anyone who obviously loves them and their beautiful city.
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Dear Friends, Welcome my new blog. I’ve prepared an imaginary red carpet for your arrival! So – a quick explanation of ‘why a new blog?’ I started blogging over ten years ago. The first was a blog about dogs who spent their holidays in my house in the south of France whilst their owners went away. Not a boarding kennels, but a ‘pension familiale’ – a home-from-home for dogs. They lived in my house, slept where they wanted, on the sofa, in my armchair and often my bed! Then, a year later I started Menton Daily Photo and Monte Carlo Daily Photo and...
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