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to the circus and back again
There’s another post about our NZ trip coming, but I thought I’d catch up on what we’ve been doing since our return to France, a month ago now. It being winter (though not of the polar vortex variety),...
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think fast
There was this game I hated at intermediate school. Some mean kid would say, ‘think fast’ and on the ‘think’ they’d toss a basketball, hard, straight at your nose. Good for your reflexes. Or bad for...
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decision making ability, zero
We’ve (almost) made it. Luuk will be back by this time tomorrow. And I… I will be at a Backstreet Boys concert! I had great aspirations to write a post about the week’s highs and lows but – gotta be...
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When we moved from NZ to France, we thought it was an 18 month stint. We shipped over a few things: baby and maternity clothes, our top five kitchen utensils, a few toys, and some linen. There were no...
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chipped or not, here I come
For years, I’ve only put nail polish on my toes. In my mid teens, when I might have got into the habit of colourful finger nails, I was painting with oils… turpentine is no manicure’s friend. I also...
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between trips
We had a lovely weekend in Dijon, while the kids stayed home and had a lovely weekend with Brendan and Erin. Luuk, wandering the streets of Dijon. We ate multi-course meals at a leisurely pace, took...
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Well, there’s nothing normal about the limbo we’re in at the moment, and all the travelling, and all the travelling-to-come… but this week and last week and next week are going to be ordinary. There’s...
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it must be love
I’ve been in an obsessive love-fog frenzy, working on my new book. I keep staying up too late, letting veggies rot in the bottom of the fridge, forgetting other deadlines… all classic symptoms of...
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wrong side of midnight
We keep staying up far too late for people whose children like the wrong side of seven in the morning. I could blame the football but that would be reductionist and dishonest. I’ve been writing a new...
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the plot thickens
… but it all comes out well in the end. I have a whopper of a bruise on my leg. We visited the netherlands a couple of weekends back (goodness, has it been that long?) and while there, we went to a...
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busy somethings and busy nothings
We had a mad couple of weeks, and then things calmed down and the quiet is a different kind of mad. First, the mad weeks – the busy doing something bit. A kiwi friend came to town and so I played tour...
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wind-down
We’re usually the ones who take-off on holiday on the evening of the last day of work, or at crack of dawn, next morning, but this time we are taking an entire leisurely Saturday to pack and potter...
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finding pace
We’re back at it. Luuk’s at work, Elena’s at halte garderie (well, not this very minute. Right now she’s watching Monsters Inc. for the thousandth time), Louis is at school and I’m in the thick of...
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What the fête is going on?
(and where the holly are my Christmas presents?) We have to move. If we find a place soon we’ll be shifting flats within the same suburb and staying till July next year, as planned. Then we’ll move...
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wait. It’s too soon to actually pack. It’s too soon to get rid of furniture we actually use. There’s a bunch of phone calls and things to book and organise… but actually not much we can do to prepare...
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new digs
We’ve had three quakes in three days and so I think it’s fair to say that the country has stopped putting out the good china for us. We’re back to being ordinary kiwis again, except that we...
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Well, this is a little embarrassing, but the kids are adorable, so voila, the video tour of our place… Now that we’ve been living here for two months, have passed our three-month inspection (no idea...
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an ordinary week (with a few sprinkles)
I am such a routine fiend. I love having a plan and (mostly) sticking to it. Just love it. Lap it up. I get SO MUCH DONE when my days basically go the same, one after another, for four or five days in...
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This is how I roll (off my rocker)
on getting a wedgie straddling the fence between doing too much and missing out on cool stuff… This week got a bit mad. The calendar assures me it is only Wednesday but I do not actually believe it....
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I’m a big girl now
Pull-ups, wow! Just me? There was an ad, back in the day. Catchy tune. I’m singing it in my head. Fine, out loud. Oh look, there it is: so that’s a tangent for a start. Gosh. What was I going to say?...
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