Ebay Wardrobe Challenge Update

Right now my wardrobes are A LOT emptier! I can finally see the wood from the trees and find something fairly quickly that fits when I open up the doors. Bizarrely Ebay didn’t work out too well, I sold a fair bit of stuff but it was almost like my fellow ebayers thought they were [...]

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Going, going, GONE and encounters with another kind…

SOLD!! The city pad is sold!! We finally accepted an offer that put an end to negotiations on Monday morning and can confirm that come January, if all goes smoothly, the Piglet family will be homeless unless we find something quick! As is always the way, as soon as we had agreed a price (less [...]

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Yoga mishaps of an ageing Piglet – Piglet’s Comedy Club

I’ve been feeling a bit depressed about my weight recently and have been completely unable to shift the excess kilos. Any efforts at dieting have been short-lived and resulted in adding to my surplus rather than reducing it. My ludicrous attempts to loose 10 kilos in 10 weeks (see this post) were quickly thwarted by [...]

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Getting ready for summer

After the cold weather of the past few weeks, last week’s holiday was a shock to my system and to my wardrobe. Having carried out the necessary prepping allowing me to bare my legs in public, actually committing to and wearing summer dresses and sandals seemed like a strange experience. My tootsies weren’t prepared but [...]

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Who’s wearing the trousers?

If you’re female and in France right now, the likelihood is that you’re breaking the law as you’re reading this. Not because my blog is illegal but because you’re wearing something illegal. Whilst the Burqa hasn’t as yet been outlawed, women wearing trousers has and has been for a long time now. Due to an [...]

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Market Day!

When we were living back in the UK for a few years, I often used to reminisce on how much I missed French markets. Whenever we came back to France for holidays or business, I would always be quick to identify where the nearest market would be and would do everything I could to ensure [...]

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Hair Horrors! What happens when a Brit goes to a French hairdressers.

My oh my ! Hairdressers are plentiful in France, their salons adorn many a street and just within a 10 minute walk of my home I can think of no less than 7 places where I could go and get my haircut. Where I used to live in the UK I don’t think there was [...]

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Bad, mad fashion! Tracksuit bottoms it is!

Its been a long time since I’ve worn a pair of tracksuit bottoms at any time other than when I’ve been working out. When I heard that they were “in-trend” this season my thoughts wandered back to when shell suits were all the rage, surely this can’t be fashionable? According to the fashionistas and all [...]

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