The brains at Fedex France are on holiday… or are they getting into organised crime?

Common sense is obviously somewhat lacking at the French Fedex’s offices during the summer. At almost the same time last year I had a run in with them (my first of many) which you can read about here. It would appear that their corporate brain goes on vacation during the month of August. Or, maybe [...]

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Fancy a job ? Earn £750 as a sun creamer!

Or should I say, screamer! I mean this is a total scream isn’t it? Given that most summer jobs in France are low paid, the possibility of earning £750 a week to rub sun screen on peoples back on the beach is amazing! I stumbled upon this article on The Telegraph website a few weeks [...]

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Je ne veux pas travailler… Strike Fever!

Je ne veux pas travailler… I have been singing this song all week for reasons unknown to myself other than the fact that my subconscious mind has been telling me I don’t want to work (obviously !). But it seems I was not the only one. France has been gripped by strike fever this week! [...]

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The need to rubber stamp

Today I had a true sense of belonging as I let loose with my rubber stamp all over envelopes, invoices and letters. For the first time since having a French company (or a company anywhere for that matter) I have a rubber stamp. Whenever anything is official in France it has a rubber stamp. Invoices [...]

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Telephone Trauma

Yesterday was a true reminder that I am a foreigner living in France and that it is easier to be French living in France, or, at least have a decent French accent when you speak the language! I borrowed Hubby to help me with some work as I needed to cold call a number of [...]

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Stinking moods and Pandora Bracelets

I’ve woken up in a stinking mood this morning. An absolutely stinking mood. It’s as if I want to bite someone’s head off just for the sake of it. I guess this is what happens when you do an extreme diet – my blood sugar levels must be all over the place. I am not [...]

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