Category: life with frenchies
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Margaret has a job interview this week, Maria has four strong leads for her new property management work (with some spillover work for me) and i've had two good responses to my work inquiries…things are looking good this week. could there be a 'career' star in our houses or some such hippydippy thing? i tell…
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winter 1974 and winter 1977 (by which time we'd graduated from cardboard and a bit of string to a proper sled) i have to remind myself of winters like these when i find it too chilly and grey here this winter…it's all a matter of degrees. no complaints here today! at least it's not minus…
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well, here starts 2004! this past year has been a wonder. and i'm still here, living in the south of France. go figure. i arrived one year ago today with two suitcases, a trembling dog in a crate and twenty bucks to my name. jobless, homeless, scared out of my wits with nothing but dog…
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in a desperate attempt to find something to watch other than CNN or ITV News, i spent a few annoying minutes clicking through every single satelite channel, noting the ones that actually had reception. (the satelite dish is too low to get a proper signal and some other problem i'm not up on has severely…
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it is not necesary to stand THAT close to me in line!!!! (deep breath) i've grown accustomed to the French idea of personal space, mainly, that there is no such thing. but today, at the post office i nearly lost it! and then, this guy starts telling me how to use the damn machine, the…
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i was walking Ruby out along the ramparts the other day in Antibes, though there was a nip in the air the sun was out, when i paused to let Miss Ruby do her sniffing thing. From behind me came a person on a bicycle–you can sense these things–always fond of bicyclists (next painting subject…
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Madamoiselle Hair Girl is such a sweetie–she loves doing my hair, mostly i think because i never care what she does with it–i let her do something different every time. of course, short hair is easy that way–no matter how different, it is still pretty much the same. or it grows out to the same…
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only one clear, relatively warm day this entire past week. and we're in for another few days of rain and storms…F9 winds (between a Gale and a Storm according to MeteoMan Bert) expected tomorrow, flooding in the south the next few days. check out this recent satelite image: France is obliterated! according to the locals,…
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out on the boat yesterday, the view of the mountains was crystal clear–the recent stormy weather has cleared the usual cloud (and haze) cover as well as brought a good amount of snow to the peaks. which is just where i like to see snow–far, far away in a place i'll never go.
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Mom turned her ankle and fell yesterday. no panic, but her ankle is in sad shape. note: when living in the south of France, where folks (and pharmacies) take their siesta seriously, never injure yourself between noon and 2:30. funny pharmacy anecdote: me, in fairly decent french: "Excusez moi Madame, blah blah….I'm looking for something…
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