Oh, wow. It is around the 20°C mark and my pale, bewintered skin and blinking eyes just don’t know what’s happened. The sun is shining. The sky is cornflower blue and cloudless. I wake up in the morning to the sound of birds singing and bees buzzing and water trickling, and look out of my [...]
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I am standing in the front room with a small bird on my head, which was not how I expected my day to turn out. Let it not be said that I lead an uneventful life. Maria, the housekeeper, has just explained that she will be away for Easter, and so responsibility for the feeding [...]
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One of the things on my 101 Things list was to speak, read or write some French every day for a month. I suspect that I am going to be able to tick that one off at the end of April, and I must say I’m quite impressed with the way that my brain has [...]
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Before the house owner left on her travels, she introduced me to some of her friends. I have made an interesting discovery about the very wealthy. Actually, I didn’t make it. I heard Billy Connolly talking about it a few times. He said that the middle class toffs – you know, the ones who have [...]
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Today I drove a Mercedes. This will be my mode of transport for the next couple of months, and I am petrified. It is huge! Huge and shiny and huge again. The dashboard looks like the control desk of a spaceship or something, full of little lights all glaring at me, daring me to press [...]
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I am sitting in a train in Geneva, and for the first time today am relaxing enough to breathe and blog. I can quite honestly say that I have never before been in so many countries in one day. Four since lunch time, for the record, and that’s quite enough for today. Unfortunately there doesn’t [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
