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No is working very well for me these days. No, I won’t conduct oral exam in a 1.5m x 3m box room with no functioning air conditioning or opening windows. (They found me an air conditioned office after I spent an hour sitting in the corridor reading my book). No I won’t work for you…
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I went to the Post Office in Palavas today to post my old British passport back to the passport office for renewal.“It’s illegal to send passports via La Poste,” announced the young wench (for she was a wench) with great authority. “No it’s not,” I replied equally firmly. “How else can I send it back…
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Macs, Apple stuff, almost exclusively. This is a bit like the ‘Where do you buy your groceries?’ question – Lidl is the answer to that one; Lidl, apart from the things that they don’t sell like zero sugar syrop (French squash) which comes from a Grande Surface giant supermarket somewhere, and that nice chopped peppers…
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You can tell it’s almost Spring: The weather’s getting warmer (not, in and of itself, a reliable indicator in these post global-warming days); I have trouble finding a space in my apartment’s car park; and the waiters are being rude again. It’s a truism that most restaurants in tourist destinations simply don’t care whether or…
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Scarlett and I were in London the other day – just popped in, you understand, to see the V&A’s Hallyu! exhibition about Korea – and noticed that there’s a branch of The Ivy restaurant a couple of stops away on the Tube. So, having popped in to the V&A we popped in to The Ivy…
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The French love their paperwork. They have tonnes of it. They keep every bit of paper sent to them for ever. When my ex needed to produce 10 years’ worth of wage slips to qualify for a training scheme – no problem. Here they are. I once had my ID card stolen, and needed to…
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It’s not cunning. Well, only a little bit perhaps. My life will change fairly substantially over the rest of this year, mostly in good ways but with tinges of necessary sadness. Me, personally, I want to go and live by the sea. I hope to be able to do so, at least part of my…
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The crystallised sage leaves The Marcel serves with coffee. Just exquisite.Continue reading →
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The horse(s) who live opposite the cemetery are usually interested in passers-by, especially if you have a spare carrot or apple in your pocket.Continue reading →
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