Waiting for Packages

27/01/201106/05/2023 Fooood, Life in France, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising, Visits

As Will mentioned in his last entry, my mom was kind enough to arrange to have my old dishes packed and shipped here. It’s a bit of an extravagance but ... Read more

Rebuilding the Routine

20/01/201106/08/2025 Life in France, Photos, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising

Well, nearly 2 weeks after moving in to Port 80, it is now (mostly) furnished. Recent acquisitions include a fancy new flat-screen TV and blue-ray DVD player, both installed in ... Read more

Making Progress

14/01/201106/05/2023 Househunt/Moving, Life in France, Sausage & the Smoo

All in all, things continue to move in the right direction as far as getting settled goes. We’re making good progress on the furniture front, thanks to the January sales. ... Read more

Testing, Testing…

10/01/201106/08/2025 Househunt/Moving, Life in France, Photos, Sausage & the Smoo, Socialising

Hello and greetings from Port 80! Oh my God does it feel good to have internet again! We just had three very isolated, insular days indeed, even by our normal ... Read more

Parting is such sweet sorrow

07/01/201106/05/2023 Uncategorised

Well ‘my’ boys have gorn….sniff, sniff BUT c’est juste au revoir Given that I am a terrible blogger, ie: very deleterious in my entries, I think I should make this ... Read more

Relocation, Relocation, Relocation

03/01/201106/05/2023 Househunt/Moving

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Bienvenue Chez Port 80

30/12/201012/05/2023 Fooood, Househunt/Moving, Life in France, Sausage & the Smoo, Visits

Yes, it’s official – we’re homeowners here in France. The closing was on Monday and it went very smoothly. We had to wait 20 minutes for the notaire to finish ... Read more

We Saw The House Today

22/12/201024/12/2023 Househunt/Moving

Will got an email from Thierry, one of the sellers. He has been in town since last weekend getting things in order. We went over this morning and met him ... Read more

Haiku

16/12/201007/06/2023 Rants and Nonsense

I am writing this entry because I am supposed to be doing my work-out but it is freezing and I don’t want to so I am procrastinating. Anyway, back in ... Read more

Still no Layla

12/12/201006/05/2023 Guitar, Househunt/Moving, Music

Yep, I still haven’t gotten the hang of the second solo in Layla. I’ve not really been trying lately as I am a little put off, but I did say ... Read more