Falling in love with Lyon… again!

Why is it that you often have to leave a place to fall in love with it just a little bit more? In two weeks time I will no longer be Lyonnais as I up sticks and move in with my in-laws whilst we wait to complete on the house in the country. I’ve been [...]

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Living in Jerk Central

Lyon city is fantastic but due to the high density of people living here, you also get a high density of jerks! One of the things I am looking forward to in the countryside is a slower pace of life and hopefully a less “dog eat dog” attitude from fellow inhabitants. I had two encounters [...]

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Chocolate encounters: meeting Charley and the lights of Lyon

I just realized today that I have not posted or been very present on the blogosphere over the past week and wish to apologise to all. I haven’t forgotten you, there’s just been so much going on here that it has zapped all of my energy and left me a quite tired. Silly pregnant brain [...]

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Feeling Festive

All house hunting has been pretty much on standby this week as Lyon and most of Europe got a major dumping of snow and roads and motorways became best avoided if possible. So I’ve been able to enjoy a nice relaxing week of home and work and what better way to start the month of [...]

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Dreaming of pastures greener…

I just went to post about how I’m becoming fed up of living in a show home when I realized that I hadn’t yet posted that Mr Piglet and I had decided to leave our city loft and move on to pastures greener (literally). As some of you may have gathered from my last post [...]

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The joys of starring in one’s own Pacman/La Rentrée game

So, back to school, back to work, back to getting on with your life now that the relaxed, do nothing, don’t bother months of July and August are rapidly becoming nothing more than faint memory – it’s “La Rentrée”. La Rentrée is like a second start to the year in France. It not only marks [...]

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The week that was… Hot & Hectic

With the intense heat of the last week and my crazy schedule it’s been a bit manic with not much time to blog! Last Tuesday I attended a wedding party of one of my first French friends I met when I was just 16 on one of the boats on the Saône river in Lyon. [...]

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Jardinage Jeudi & Fire!

At last! I have my first tomatoes! I ate my very first one yesterday, it was teeny tiny, but oh boy was it juicy and sweet. I hope the others hurry up, as I think my plants have got mildew again (any suggestions?) so I hope they all grow and ripen before the plants die… [...]

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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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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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