This title could read: Oi! Someone nicked my wheelie! Baby bump or Baby bloat? The House! Lots of posts in one :)

For all good news I believe there is bad news, so let’s get my weeks bad news out of the way first. The last couple of days I have been suffering from the world’s worst headache (in my humble opinion) that not even a 1000 mg dose of paracetamol or sleep will cure and I [...]

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A step closer to French country life…

It’s been nail biting stuff in the Piglet household for the last 12 hours. Everything started yesterday evening when I had a feeling of anticipation that we were going to get an offer on the house. I could just feel something in my bones, a sort of premonition of electric shocks that lead me to [...]

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Losing it at La Poste

After many, many rants about La Poste and the incompetence of the employees, my visit this morning was one I was not particularly looking forward to, but I didn’t quite count on it ending as it did… I was to collect a registered letter (which should have been delivered to my home but of course [...]

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A little Piglet or a little Piggy?

It’s been a busy and emotionally demanding week in the Piglet household. After my parents departure the house descended into a calm haven, almost too quiet if it hadn’t been broken from time to time by me moaning “I feel sick!”. I have been feeling sick for the last eight weeks and had taken a [...]

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Mrs Nosey & Jardinage Jeudi

I’m feeling really sorry for myself today. The blasted miserable weather has given me the flu (or more likely a chill) and I was up all night coughing so I’m a sniveling, tired, miserable piglet today… What’s more, Hubby has re-baptized me as Mrs Nosey… When I was a child my parents called our neighbour [...]

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Suitcases, Sunscreen and Bacon Sandwiches

Last Saturday I was praying for the Volcanic Ash cloud to stay away and yesterday I was praying for it to come back so that we could stay in our Paradise for a little longer. Unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be and I am now consoling myself in the Lyonnais sun, knowing that I’ll be [...]

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Piglet – de retour!

Catching Up! Well, its been a good couple of weeks since I last wrote a post here and its good to be back! I’ve been suffering from writers block (oh, that sounds so serious !) but seriously, I have not been capable of putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) due to my world [...]

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OMG

OMG, I’m panic stricken ! Hubby has invited loads of our friends over tomorrow night for a BBQ but has no clear plan of who’s bringing what, what we’re going to serve to eat etc. Last time he tried to organise this type of thing I sat back, watch him do it and then listen [...]

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