Category: Blog
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The name made sense in 2020
Wearemovingtofrance.com made perfectly good sense in February 2020. We didn’t even know about the global pandemic, it’s magnitude, or ‘Murica’s insane and crippled response. We wouldn’t even experience the full frontal impact for another month. We didn’t know about a lot of things. We weren’t really sure how this move to France would work out.…
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Spring
and junk Life, feelings and what I am up to. Community involvement Today is a fun day. I am off to bergerac to help repair and build some educational robot stuff for kids. I am working on building a robotics tech presence to help get kids interested in electronics, software and mechanics. We are doing…
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10 centimeters
The date is August 1st, 2024. We have just signed a contract for a new kitchen. I won’t name names, I don’t know anything about French libel laws, I will merely state they are a nation-wide chain. Also, a wish is a dream the heart makes. That is a hint. A summary of the kitchen…
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Schrödinger’s vent hood
(And other kitchen shenanigans) So the kitchen is mostly done, with a few notable exceptions…We went with a nation-wide, “professional” service to keep things simple. Note that professional is in quotes to convey a sense of disappointment. When the kitchen cabinets arrived, there were a few issues. Measurements were off by 10cm or 20 cm…
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Yesterday
We have a visitor from ‘Murica here this week, so a little sightseeing was in order. Our friend Miss S, has been here before, in fact when my wife went to establish our beachhead in the gite from hell, Miss S came with her. She is no stranger to a wintery Bergerac, so there wasn’t…
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That Floaty Feeling
(Again) (me wrestling with floaty feelings) Yeah, I’ve probably talked about this floaty feeling way too much, but I think I finally have a good handle on what is going on, or at least part of what is going on… Or I don’t and I’ll be whinging about this again in the future… When I…
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Sitting, reflecting, writing
My second winter in France is approaching. We hit 0°C a few nights ago, ice on the roads, a millimeter or 3 of ice on the car. I still recall the weeks prior to our departure: The stress of the FDA stamp for the dogs to travel. Selling all of the cars and driving a…
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You had one job
Our kitchen renovation in (I have lost count) easy steps. Step one: Measure Measure the kitchen space to determine what can be put where. We opted to have a kitchen company help with the design, rather than simply go with Ikea. We are in the autumn of our lives, the necessity to do another kitchen…
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Then and now
A list of things I am getting used to I’m still vacillating between feeling totally normal here and wondering how I got here and what my place is in this new, wacky world, but as I look back, I see the things that felt totally alien slipping into normalcy. Shopping carts Shopping carts here, with…
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Home is where the anchor drops
Sometimes I feel floaty I have these moments of disassociation. I stand there and can’t believe where I am (south west of France) , how I got here (years of planning and a terrifying leap.) I look and see patterns. I see trajectories. And for the life of me I just don’t see the south…