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- May 6, 2021
- 3 min
Jump from Spring into Winter and back to Spring again
Haven't made a blog for a while. Not that I didn't have the time, but the long winter cold came in after a few warm days and the prospect...
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- Jan 22, 2021
- 3 min
blossom and snow
A few weeks have passed in the year 2021. We slammed the door of 2020 with a big bang. Whether the new year will get better? No idea. The...
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- Dec 9, 2020
- 4 min
1 year ago and more to follow
A year ago I started this blog because of our emigration to France. Now a year ago, our entire household went into the moving van, and we...
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- Nov 2, 2020
- 4 min
highs and lows
The summer season has ended. Despite the difficult start with many hiccups in France, which means fewer bookings, we should definitely...
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- Sep 27, 2020
- 3 min
Fairies, Dragons and Mistletoe
Summer is over. That is to say: from the time we moved here, we have mainly had good weather. Okay, also a lot of rainy days where it...
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- Aug 9, 2020
- 4 min
and off we go!
It has been a while since the last blog was written. It has therefore been a busy period in which a lot has happened. Therefore now a...
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- Jun 5, 2020
- 2 min
when the past was still quiet
It took a bit longer before I wrote the next blog. Sorry! Here in France, the confinement is decreased again. This allows us to do more...
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- May 5, 2020
- 3 min
love you till the moon...
Before you know it, another week has passed. A week in which everything went as normal as possible. The sun was shining, but...
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- Apr 26, 2020
- 4 min
King's Day
As of this writing, it has been 4.5 months that we live here in France. Now this does not seem long, but the months are going fast. The...
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- Apr 14, 2020
- 4 min
mr. blue sky or turn me over
In the first months we came here, we had a lot of rain. I could barely imagine that we would ever get one day that there would be no...
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- Mar 31, 2020
- 4 min
from Easter eggs and the Cob House
I don't even know when it's Easter. Is that important at the moment? Back in the days when the girls were still in primary school I knew...
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- Mar 27, 2020
- 4 min
emptiness, sweetness, and silence
We are now halfway through the first period of the lock-down in France. I must say: quite a few measures are being taken here. It is only...
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- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min
the smell of fresh grass
Two weeks. Two weeks in which the world has been turned upside down. Yes I said I wouldn't write about corona. So much has been said...
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- Mar 1, 2020
- 4 min
me, myself and I to register
Yes, another blog. Not much happened last week, although I tried to connect with the French system of registering some important matters,...
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- Feb 25, 2020
- 4 min
everything of value is defenseless
You get up in the morning with the expectation that the day will be a normal day. You make plans, whatever you want to implement on the...
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- Feb 10, 2020
- 3 min
blowin' in the wind
As Bob Dylan his song is saying: the answer is. But for now, here are the trees, the leaves, the birds, everything is blowin' in the...
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- Feb 4, 2020
- 3 min
as long as the sun is not shining
After our days of heating problems, I can now say that it has become nice and warm in the house. Fortunately, because the sky in Normandy...
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- Jan 28, 2020
- 3 min
to start or not to start, what will it be
Well, I promised to write a blog way sooner, but, we have had a very 'dramatic' period. It all started more than a week ago. Yes, we...
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- Jan 13, 2020
- 10 min
been there, done that!
Here we are, a little more than a month we live in France, and now for since a day we finally have our own connection to the outside...
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