Work as usual. The traffic is still ok, but I’m waiting to see what it will be like once the schools have gone back and the parents go back to work as well. I’m hoping that with people still télé-working it won’t get up to the pre-covid levels.
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Tuesday is shopping day. Hate it, But it has to be done. 
Hi Peter, I think this is going to be the first year in the last few decades where I won’t be at the side of the road. Friday’s a very busy day for us and due to the covid restrictions I haven’t got my usual FDJ VIP pass 
(being a FDJ détaillant and one of the keenest cyclists amongst local buralistes I usually get one but there aren’t any this year)
Enjoy, I’ll look out for you on the télé !
Does not your local pompiers deal with hornets for you?
If you feel like this why do you have her to stay?
Not any more, no, the process, if the house owners want me to, would be for me to contact the Mairie. An Asian hornet’s nest would be free to remove, European cost about 100 to remove.
I loved having my sister visit, but had to tolerate her husband, the bar steward 
She has her own house a few miles away.
She speaks no French.
She doesn’t drive.
She wants stuff done in the house…guess who sorts that out!
She wants prices from other trades…guess who uses his contacts.
She thinks everything can be done in 5 minutes & for beer money.
Someone has to pick her up from & return her to the airport.
Any easier to understand Jane ?
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I know someone like that.
She is a champagne socialist and admirer of Diane Abbott. She needed more money, but rather than convert her loft into a studio , she bought another house 30k away rather than see anyone else using her swimming pool.
She doesn’t drive either and her husband has recently died, so she relies on her neighbours for everything.
We were talking with our French friend and she is always being put upon for holidays from her friends. She is over 80 and we have devised a plan so that when people ask to come to stay she says that she will look in her diary first and give a start and finish date, as people seem to want to add extra dates onto their stay.
Anyway, this way she can plan and not be taken by surprise if people 'phone up to take advantage of her good nature.
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Love her! Very jealous! I really need to find my mojo now the weather is cooling and get my retro (1979) caravan (‘Clara-van’) renovated to use next year .
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My friend is a very generous person, but has no idea how things work.
She has ideas that I find difficult to get my head round.
She takes some persuading that what she thinks is the way to do something, isn’t in fact how it should be done…when this happens, she goes all “poochy”
I find it tiring, & now keep my opinions to myself
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Hi! We’ve just got back to UK from our trip to France sign papers for the new house and sort out the move as much as possible, so are in quarantine. Making the best of it: Drafting letters to Mairie and local education authority for our move in the autumn, trying to sell stuff online to minimise the size of storage unit we’ll need while we renovate the new house, and negotiating with maitre d’oeufs about the project and budget. Oh yes, and dreaming about the gardening I can’t wait to get started on, even though we’ll be arriving end of october and it’ll be months of cold weather and living in a mobile home!!!..and improving my french as much as possible! Hope you are all enjoying la rentrée xxx
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What have eggs got to do with it (or even a master of eggs)? 
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That’s me being half asleep, it’s meant to be maitre d’ouvre! Master of all! My son will be maitre’ d’oeuf when he gets the chickens next year! Hhahaha! Oh my word, need to go and do more french practice clearly!
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I think that the vast majority of us here are just a tad aged for the rentree.
Good luck with your move.
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I know it’s not nice having hornets nearby, but that is a really amazing and beautiful photograph!
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I was going to reply to some emails, suddenly found an hour had past and I had been watching clips of Victor Borge! He and Peter Ustinov were favourites in our house 
Back to the emails.
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That you - yes beyond belief after a 6 month ‘holiday’!!! Although ds2 needed to be driven to Perigueux then had to wait around for 2 hours for him (bought some jeans though so not all bad!) then a huge rush to get back to get my little one off the bus for the first time (he was sooo excited 
). Then had to ge tearly dinner and get the little one to football and just walked in! I was on the way to get a wine but had to walk past the computer!
I’m looking forward to Thursday when they’ll both be out ALL day!
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'What’s everyone up to today? 'is now ‘tomorrow’ for me. I remember when we used to have to return to the UK in Sept for the start of the uni year - the terrible countdown of remaining sunny days before the great trek north to a dark Cumbrian winter of rain,wind and general gloom. And our figs would always be ready to pick the week after we left. The only high spots woud be staying en route with friends in Paris and the faded charms, but excellent breakfast of the Hotel Maurce in Calais.
However, in recent years that journey’s no longer necessary, so the outlook’s been much sunnier and I’m looking forward to the figs (great roasted with andouillettes and truffade - now that’s what I call autumn!) and after the rains, the season of the cepes is already upon us. Some friends are bringing us a load of cepes on Friday and I’m looking forward to trying to smoke some carnaroli rice as the basis for a cepes risotto - however, I’ve never smoked dried rice and would certainly welcome any advice(all the online info seems to be for American par-boiled Uncle Ben’s type rice).
I’m thinking that pulled confit de canard, duck stock, smoked rice and cepes seems a good autumnal combination…
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