When a blogging friend comes to Paris – whom you’ve known for over two years online (and with whom you’ve already had two aborted attempts to meet up in the past, except that you couldn’t manage to extricate yourself from the daily grind) – you get over your hermit tendencies, and you GO INTO PARIS! You go to the Champs Elysées,… Read More
Archives for August 2013
What’s On My Shelves?
This trivial post was inspired by a rainy Sunday afternoon, a camera in hand, the need for a blog post, and a house full of people . . . which meant I had to clean. In the kitchen, there are the new mauve baskets on my shelves. They hold all the opened bags of lentils and brown rice and dried… Read More
Why?
Why am I wearing surgical gloves to give my dog a bowl of water? Well, yesterday morning, he jumped in the bank of the Seine, and it must have been a stagnant pool (hidden by the brush) because it was unbeLIEvably smelly. So I gave him a bath. Then last night, he found a dead crow, so he rubbed his… Read More
Creamy Chive Cucumbers
Quick! Get those cucumbers out! Summer is almost over. Peel it. Notice how long the French cucumbers are? The seeds are tiny in this variety. Slice it up thinly. Hey kids – get outa there. Put half a yoghurt container, 2 tablespoons of sour cream (or crème fraiche), 1/4 t salt and just a pinch of white pepper. And then… Read More
My Dog has a Blog
When we picked Hunter up from his 4-hectre paradise, we discovered that he had learned a few tricks. He’s a new dog, you see, so he’s still teachable. He was just weaning off his “let’s eat poop” stage before he left, which I was relieved to see the end of, since it’s pretty darn disgusting. But when he came home,… Read More
On Part Two and Coming Home
Well … it will be good to be home as soon as we recover from the jet lag. We were all up until 2:30 last night and we all woke up at 11:30 today. Oh yeah, and William threw up all over himself and the bedding and wall because I fed them chocolate chip cookies instead of dinner. #MotherOfTheYear