Category: life with frenchies
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it's hard to explain, but french smiles are a rare and unpredictable thing. sometimes i wonder if they exist at all..like the Dodo bird or something. but i got one today! Madame Smokes' shop recently re-opened and i asked if her holiday was good…and got a brief glimpse of the illusive "frenchius smilius" in return…
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on September first, it was as if a door was slammed shut..everything here changed. the Mistral winds kicked up and blew away the heat and the tourists as well. i can just imagine it…short-pants wearing, beach-bag toting holiday makers blowing away in the wind! holidays came to a close, school started, and the heatwave ended…
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the best kind of friends are the ones who remember the little things that make you happy and then apply them regularly…nothing like mini gherkins to make my day. Liz is so thoroughly thoughtful. kinda took the edge off having to converse with a crazy person later in the evening.
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little Italian mama driving me nuts continued…i've mentioned the first floor neighbors before…well, here today's installment of the story…the building was cut up for sale as individual apartments (condo-style) rather unfairly..the retired Italian couple on the first floor have a huge back garden, an extended kitchen with another terrace built (illegaly i might add) on…
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the bickering and media-hijinx continue… pretty damn funny though, if you ask me.
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amidst more than ten thousand alleged heat-related deaths in France, a famous ancient tree at Versaille is lost as well. and then my downstairs neighbor has the gall to complain (AGAIN) about the tiny little trickle of water the airconditioner in the bedroom makes in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. i only run it from…
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ha! i've been saying this for years! (i would also add that the difference in car-usuage for everyday errands has something to do with it…the French are regularly on foot far more than Americans)
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a few days ago in the late-afternoon, the sky darkened behind the town towards the mountains and it looked like rain…it even thundered and was that ever delicious..but, alas..it didn't make it down to us on the coast…i cried. literally. the endless heatwave and glaring sun were driving me batty. then, on Saturday, as we…
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a little French girl shreeked and jumped away from Ruby (who was innocently occupied with wee-sniffing anyway) on our walk through the market area today..very unusual, i don't recall any other incident of dog-fear since we've been here…once, in Savannah, a grown 6ft man yelled at me from across the square, some 50 yards away,…
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i saw Bisquick at Geoffrey's English food store yesterday and couldn't pass it up…and then couldn't wait for breakfast..had pancakes with syrup for dinner. yum. i miss relatively few American food items here (and when i am stateside, i hanker something fierce for french food)..but what does come to mind: s'mores, Krispy Kremes, proper brats…
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