Monday 4th – Picked up E. from school. Don’t ever get much out of her when it comes to what goes on in there. But have figured out fellow school mate M. is switching schools at the end of the week. E. doesn’t seem torn up about it but the topic does seem to come…
It’s been ages but a year is the standard gardening unit of time. So here goes my gardening retrospective for Winter/Spring/Summer/Autumn of 2023-2024. Another plant haul is on the horizon before the end of Autumn. This is the south facing wall but it gets a lot of shade from the (last) remaining fig tree. List…
It’s been a while since I last posted something here (or anywhere really). And a lot has happened. In April 2023, I was told my endometriosis was degrading my body too fast for me to wait for a natural second pregnancy to occur. IVF would be the way forward. I am among the lucky ones…
« Missing (in cinema, novels and popular culture) is the crucial life stage where the woman is initially tired, anxious and cross, before undergoing an internal renaissance where she steps over the threshold into her new queendom of zero fucks. » (aka menopause). This extract is from an article of the Irish Independent (It’s all the rage!…
For what feels like the first time since Le Baby’s arrival in our lives, P. And I got a day off. Together. At the same time AND in the same place. We got a full 7 hours of doing exactly what we wanted and it was GLORIOUS. It was also in Paris which made it…
This is the extensive list of the birds we have fed this winter.
Both my parents are anglophone. English is my mother tongue. Being born in Paris and living all my life in France means my French is better than my English but also that moving out from the family house meant not getting to speak English at all on a daily basis. That was when I started…
So far, I am in awe of this woman. The more I read, the more she gains in substance and the more I‘m astounded at her strength of character. She built herself a BIG life. It helped of course that she came from money but all who come from money don’t have the heart or…
I am currently obsessed with a song by Rose Betts called Irish Eyes. Probably because I might have Irish Eyes myself but mostly I am particularly sensitive/receptive to the lyrics « I’m a map of the world and the ones before » because ever since Le Baby was born, I’ve had this feeling lurking in the back…
We’ve just had the most glorious weekend weather ! It’s been a dark and gloomy month of December so a bit of sun was so very much appreciated ! And we’ve made the most of it and been as much as we possibly could in the garden. NB Have discovered a new psychological bias of…