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Category Archives: Sers
Summer is on its way!
In a rather uneven fashion, spring here is slipping into summer. We’ve finally opened our pool but it’s going to be some days before it’s warm enough to enjoyably swim in. After the prolonged wet winter and spring, our robotic … Continue reading
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A premature summer?
We went to the UK for six days recently to visit some of the family. A high point was seeing our second grandson Joseph playing clarinet in his wind band. (His brother used to be in the same band but … Continue reading
Seasons and septic tanks
Let’s start positively. The weather has been a bit drier and we have had some lovely skies and splendid sunsets. The rivers and streams have continued to be at a very high level, suggesting that the water table is reassuringly … Continue reading
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Into autumn
Yes we said we’d talk more about Pranzac this week, but other events intervened… Well it’s certainly been a change from the sunlit Var in the last few weeks, with barely a break between the storms, but the good news … Continue reading
Of riots and rurality
We had put together a blog about a recent walk but given the number of people who are asking about riots in France, we thought it might be worth commenting. The specific trigger for the widespread explosions of anger was … Continue reading
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Birds and trees
We mentioned a few weeks ago that we’d been doing some painting in the house. But there are other repairs needing doing, including the tree house in our rather fine cedar tree. We are glad to see that the tree … Continue reading
Pastoral
Given that it’s Friday afternoon and Alison is busy finishing painting a wall it’s me, Chris, writing this blog which is prompted by our perfectly charming wander through some of the many local lanes the other evening. There is a … Continue reading
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May miscellany
It’s been another week of bits and pieces but none the worse for that. On Saturday we took a trip to Limoges, mainly to check out the airport, which is in many ways the most convenient one for us. It’s … Continue reading
Progress
In another busy week we have managed to make quite a bit of progress in different areas. We’ve reached the point with the house that we’re now putting pictures up. There are still some major works to be done, but … Continue reading
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Various
Gosh it’s Friday afternoon already. In one sense we don’t feel we have got a lot done this week, but in another we’ve made quite a bit of progress getting the house in shape. We’ve also made some progress on … Continue reading
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