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		<title>The return of Marie Antoinette</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was more than 200 years ago in France that Marie Antoinette met an untimely end when she was executed by guillotine. Among other &#8216;crimes&#8217; she had made herself supremely unpopular by spending great amounts of money on herself while the people of France were suffering from desperate poverty. Thank goodness that could never happen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot bath for the spiders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 1
Last year when we closed the (rental) house up for winter I carefully emptied the hot water tank, turned off the electricity, closed the valves on the gas tanks etc so that we were confident that the house could be ignored for a few months. I also left all the taps open so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemporary extensions in Lot-et-Garonne</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Note: this entry is inspired by the &#8216;weekend of patrimony&#8217; in France (this weekend) when many of the great buildings are opened free to the public.
Our daughter has just started her second year at lycée and one of her subjects is history. Turns out her history teacher is in training to be an architect, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picking grapes in Burgundy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a long way from home travelling around Burgundy at the moment, which presents me with a challenge &#8211; whenever I go away, Mrs B and the girls complain that I don&#8217;t think of them at all. This is based on the fact I that I never buy them presents from whereever I&#8217;ve been.
Earlier in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotels in France with WIFI &#8211; wanted!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who need to keep in touch with your office or access your emails while you travel probably keep an eye out for hotels that have wifi (internet) access when you are planning your trip.  Note to hotel owners in France: for me, and many others, this internet access is actually quite important.
I’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spookier than a crop circle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First we had crop circles littering the countryside as careless aliens parked their spaceships in the most improbable places.
Then we had Andy Goldsworthy sprinkling giant snowballs across the streets of London in the middle of summer.
Now a new and greater mystery has arrived, a phenomenon that is undeniable, inexplicable, and several other big words as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So this is Christmas. And what have you done?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always interesting to look back on a year of change, so here is our personal summary &#8211; a Queen&#8217;s Speech from France if you like, but without the Queen. Or the speech.
The year has been hectic for us &#8211; and as it turned out pretty hectic for most expats in France, along with the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The day started well, but&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Had ten steres (cubic metres) of wood delivered this morning, ready chopped and ready split for use in the wood-burning stove this year. We are now ready for a Siberian winter, without being held hostage to oil prices.
Of course my opinion of a Siberian winter might be different to others &#8211; someone who stayed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are Brad and Angelina?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s try and keep our spirits up. Petrol prices mean that everyone needs to stay at home, petrol shortages mean that we can&#8217;t go anywhere anyway&#8230;and I&#8217;ve hired a car starting this evening so I can go and do research on the Nimes region.
So either I won&#8217;t be able to set off, or I&#8217;ll set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake up early, get more done?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wake up early in the morning &#8211; usually between 5am and 6am, and long before anybody else. No idea why, I&#8217;ve been the same since I was young. But it does leave me with a challenge. What should someone do for two-three quiet hours every morning?
Typically I drink too much coffee,  answer lots [...]]]></description>
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