Before that we printed colour paper copies which we handed out at the markets and placed in shops and hairdressers, that was in 2003 / 2004, and at a time that the number of English speakers were scarce on the ground.
Since then there has been a veritable explosion of nationalities, UK residents, Australians, Americans, Belgians etc. all arriving to live the dream. Families, couples, bringing out other relatives who saw the good life we lead.
When I started TAG on line in March 2011 it was once again to pass on information and news about our life in France. Malc had always been in the background helping with "techie"bits and proof reading and altering those dreadful spelling mistakes and punctuation errors. 2014 saw him enter the arena as a sub editor and he now enjoys searching out and writing interesting French news posts. As when we were in business together team work makes us succesful.
We have seen readers numbers rise from 100 to 800 or 900 each and everyday, often now over the 1,000 and we think looking at the stats that a great majority are from our area here in TAGland, SW France. As it has been pointed out many times I am a lady with strong opinions, some you may not agree with but it does make TAG an interesting read (so I am told)
Information about the area you should find on TAG but if there is something that is missing let us know, and it can be printed and put into a label.
From writing TAG we have made so many lovely friends, hopefully made you laugh and cry and increased in all of us a better knowledge of the beautiful area, the people and the culture of our adopted country France. Whilst having fun we raised over 3,600 euros for our charities in 2014. Over the years TAG has raised more than 6,500 for local charities.
One of the words of the year is " a selfie" and at this point here is our "selfie" and yes Malc does have more than one shirt!
