I am an ex-Londoner living in rural Brittany, France, for the last 18 years, with my family and far too many animals and wood stoves: these ramblings, some of which are cross, are about life in the countryside, and how to cope when your high heels are replaced by clogs.
Ten Things Tuesday
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Some people I love very much are commemorating a sad anniversary today. I
know there’s precious little that I can do to ease the loss they all still
keenl...
Marilyn Monroe
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Years ago I got a job at a Paris nightclub and at the contract signing they
asked me what I wanted on the marquee. At the time I was calling myself Suzy
Cu...
Didn't it rain...
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It wasn't so bad at first, spent the day creatively faffing, doing nice bits
of snail mail, cooked a proper Sunday lunch, played with photos, it stopped
lo...
Ice
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I is for ice.
Ice is your friend. One of those difficult friends who will always tell you
the truth if you ask, and you always know where you stand with t...
Allemagne-Bound
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We're packed and ready. And not a moment too soon - the heating stopped
working yesterday. Suddenly, the prospect of a night in the ambulance or
even, God ...
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On Monday November 9th 1989 the demolition of the Berlin Wall began. DIE MAUER IST RUNTER The wall is down. Incredulous we contemplate, through raw gateways,...
Monochrome Weekly - Sails
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This is a cropped photo of a piece of art that now graces one of the walls
in our living room. It's my favourite piece of all the artwork that he
brou...
A life in the day of
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Wake up, get Dad up for a mooch outside, ask for breakfast, no luck, back to
bed.
Wake up, get Dad up, it's definitely breakfast, hoover up breakfast, whe...
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*Neighbours :* On Halloween we had some small neighbours come knocking,
dressed as witches. We hadn’t quite understood “Trick or Treat”, so
Gabrielle’s id...
Down to the wire...
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At this moment, I am 72 days, 13 hours and 53 minutes sober.
Had I not had that unfortunate slip up (read:relapse) back in August, it
would have been 174 d...
Disapointed
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Yesterday morning the results for elections were in. The voters in my
childhood home of Maine decided to repeal legislation that allowed for same
sex marri...
The currency of blow jobs.
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Ms R is slightly alarmed to hear that apparently the blow job has assumed
the status, once only bestowed upon the US dollar: it is a currency both
easily e...
Bad plane, good plane
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I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on this blog complaining about
airline companies (eg. here and here and here) ... and here I go again.
My Mum ...
Painting and dreaming and reading and thinking
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For the past month I have been taking a painting class. I don’t think of
myself as a painter. I went to art school when I was 50, and I majored in
printm...
Now it is November..
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How relaxed should we be?
I would say this is Nirvana, in Relaxation!!
I love the way the tail is just laid there, to designate total trust!!
"I will just ...
Hallowheeeeee!!!!
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Halloween is big round here. It’s weirdly big in much of America, I
understand, and I’ve never done a state-by-state comparison, or really
researched the s...
Analysis of 5 days of time keeping
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Total Number of minutes recorded (weekend not recorded) 6430 Mins spent
doing: PC 1235 = 20 hours 35 mins (not including the weekend where I
really ove...
My Fat Mouth
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*Quick Update: I forgot to tell you, I did another post at The Greenists.*
Christmas came early to Casa de Dingo in the form of a 246-page glossy
maga...
Been working slowly but still there
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Just some photos of the work I have been doing recently. I will admit I have
abandoned the BJP 2008-9 for now, although I need to update my photos of
that...
A strange pregnancy
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As the poplars turn golden and and persimmons fall from the trees in
Provence, somewhere in Mali a woman is either going to carry, is car...
Challenging Behaviour
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For me what has been the toughest - C’s Autism or his severe learning
disability? Neither it’s his challenging behaviour that has shaped both our
lives.
W...
home
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It's a little after three a.m. and I'm telling Daddy yet again where home
is. He can't remember. He doesn't know the street or the town; thinks he's
still ...
Parlez-vous français?
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It is a truth universally acknowledged in Paris that any foreigner trying to
speak French to the locals, will fail. Try as you might to speak the native
to...
Time In A Bottle
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While I am more than willing to admit that I am not fully comfortable with
the complicated physics of the following notion, I must admit that while I
under...
Blog Recommendation
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Just noticed that a lot of you are still subscribed to this blog. I've
enjoyed the time away from blogging to work on my book. It's also given me
time to f...
Creative Writing and Chillin' Grades K-5th
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OK, Mrs. G. has to start out this post inspiring the small fry to write by
letting you know that she is mainly writing from the perspective of a
homeschool...
Me
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I came across this delightful meme on Belgian Waffle earlier today. As Mdme
Jaywalker has opened it up to all, I thought it would be fun to give it a
go. 1...
Not the Greek God …
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I had to get up a little promptly on Friday morning so I set my alarm clock
for 7.05am … just to make sure. I woke up and bleary eyed looked at the
clock. ...
Ten Word Tuesday.
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Bossy has been blogging since 1966. She struggled with the technology for the first few decades, but that issue resolved when they invented the Internet. Bef...
6 comments:
Hello You,
how nice to have you back. Seems our pleas to get you back up and running have been answered.
Just one thing though could ypu please shut those sheep up, they're making a terrible racket.
Men hanging outside your bedroom window, should not in general be encouraged, especially if he has a smile on his face, lol
much love
Lia xx
Result!
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NOW I can hear you! Loud and clear. Yay! Welcome back to the real world.
trois hurrahs !
He really is smiling quite nicely.
Hooray!
'The Flying Spanners' sounds like a good name for a band...
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