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My Treasures, Your Rubbish.

It’s that hard realisation. Your cherished possessions, your gadgets, your technological toys, your digital cameras, your i-pods, i-phones […]

October 26, 2014 Economy, Heritage, Life, Mobile homes, Shopping, TV

Watching THEM watching US.

Went to the zoo yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed it. My day of staring at animals staring back at […]

August 24, 2014 Health, Life, Philosophy, Shopping, Stress, Tourism, TRAVEL

If It’s Tuesday, We are Chinese.

France is the world’s number one tourist destination. 83 million foreign visitors in 2013. I suppose I should […]

July 20, 2014 Employement, France, French, Paris, Shopping, Tourism, TRAVEL

Nostalgia

2014, a year of anniversaries – the D Day landings, the outbreak of the First World War – […]

June 8, 2014 Fashion, France, Heritage, History, Military, Paris, Shopping

Don’t Arrest the Mother Superior.

So, what is your employer’s stance on religion in the workplace ?  Do employees get time off work to […]

January 7, 2014 politics, Religion, Shopping, Wine

Beg borrow or barter. Be mean and green in 2014

New year, new trends and the trend for 2014 in France is sharing and downsizing. Clothing, food, furniture, […]

January 5, 2014 Culture, Food, France, Life, Shopping

You Unlock this Door with the Key of Imagination.

Been out of town all week, working down in Toulouse – not that I actually saw much of […]

November 23, 2013 Culture, France, French, Life, Philosophy, Shopping, TRAVEL, Weather

Discovering the Edgelands

A chink of light through the shutters. Sunlight after days of grey. Gently unfurling under the duvet, legs, […]

October 13, 2013 Shopping

Shopping Thoughts

A few (unfinished) weekend shopping thoughts. When – Saturday morning Where – Supermarket car park Struggling to wrench […]

October 5, 2013 Shopping, Uncategorized, Weekend

Christmasizacomin’

Just wanna punch the f***ing radio. Put my fist right through the mesh covered speaker. Just wanna thrust […]

September 1, 2013 Christmas, Life, Shopping

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