The Annual Autumn Garden Cut Back (Or Not)

Our very own Monty Don / Adam Frost here in our corner of France, Barry WATTON from Le Jardin Contemporain, shares his advice on whether we should be cutting back in the gardens at this time of year:

I advocate making use of the garden ‘down time’ during autumn and throughout winter to get ahead of the game so that you can start enjoying the garden right from spring. If you wait until spring to restart your garden maintenance regime you may not be able to fully enjoy it until summer. Waiting until spring for renovation or redesign work is often too late to have the garden looking good for that same year.

However, I have one exception to this general rule of mine, I think, for good reason.

Lockdown and Beyond - The "Director's Cut" by Christophe

It was a Monday 16th March at 20h00 when president Macron announced live to the nation that ‘Nous sommes en guerre” (we are at war). This time with an invisible enemy. From the next day at midday we were obliged to close our office doors and sadly cancel

End of lockdown in France: travel rules

Rules on travel and transport around France will be relaxed from Monday, though some restrictions remain in place.

The general rule will be a return to more normal daily activity, with no need for an attestation to leave the home, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said today.

However there will be new attestations that you should take if leaving

FRENCH INCOME TAX 2020

YES! It’s that time of the year again when we start receiving the dreaded income tax form to fill in (from mid-April to Mid-May)! Some of you thought that the new changes with Monthly payments taken at source (prélèvement à la source) would stop that but no, you still have to fill in a form!!
As the forms were not available

France's New Anti-Waste Laws

The French government has passed far-reaching laws to try and cut down on waste and boost recycling levels. The laws have now been officially added to the statue books but will be introduced in phases. Here's what is happening and when.
The Loi relative à la lutte contre le gaspillage et à l'économie circulaire (law on the anti-waste and to a circular economy) officially came into force on February 11th, but its changes are introduced gradually to give businesses time to prepare.