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We only have one car, and a pretty ancient one at that, and although the girls are forever pleading with us to buy a new one we never seem to get round to it. Perhaps because I’m an accountant and think of cars in [...]
I find myself in a strange and foreign land – Yorkshire!
Getting here: The flight reminded me how rude people can be, as a group of elderly passengers shoved their way past us, ranting about ‘prority boading’ as we helped the children pick themselves back up off the floor. Seemed the old folk had missed the announcement and [...]
Our poor old Renault Megane Scenic has now travelled about 170,000 kilometres. Despite Mrs B trying to leap across a ditch with it about four years ago, it is still going strong and looks set to continue for another 170,000.
But the children are starting to complain how embarrassing it is turning up at school in [...]
I’m sorry to report that I have discovered a major disadvantage of being an expat in France.
Since no-one ever has a clue what to buy me for birthdays and christmas I quite often get sent amazon gift vouchers, usually for amazon UK. This is always very exciting – the chance to go shopping without leaving [...]
As part of my too-ing and fro-ing with france this way, I deal with quite a few travel companies. Often, they are wanting to market a travel product of some sort on the site.
The suggestions aren’t always suitable, and trying to sell unrelated products – website hosting, for example – on a travel site, is [...]
Now I’m not a big shopper as a whole – in fact I find the whole shopping experience pretty unpleasant – which I suppose has the advantage that I don’t cost much to keep, and the disadvantage that I’m always a bit scruffy.
Well last night all that changed. For the first time in my life [...]
Those of you who are regular visitors to France will know that shop opening hours are a bit different to those in the UK. That is to say, shops are almost never open in France and always open in the UK.
When we first moved to France this all seemed a bit strange, but we, like [...]