We are moving to France

Actually we made it in April of 2023

Tag: mundania

  • Schrödinger’s vent hood

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    (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…

  • Yesterday

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    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…

  • Roadtrip

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    Some seriously mundane shite out of Mundania in the south west of France. Wednesday we headed up to Perigueux to go to Leroy Merlin (I dare you not to say that like they would on the Dukes of Hazard, y’all) Leeeroy Mehrlin. We needed tile, some misc hardware, needed to return a vent hood, and…

  • That Floaty Feeling

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    (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…

  • Sitting, reflecting, writing

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    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…

  • Then and now

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    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…

  • Home is where the anchor drops

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    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…

  • Renovation

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    The kitchen is moving forward We have identified a contractor We have a not unreasonable quote We have water damage and mold, possibly from the pompe a chalor drainage issues that were eloquently documented on the previous version of my blog that are lost to the ravages of my previous web-host. In short, the pompe…

  • Just a simple post

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    Falling directly into the mundania category, Yesterday my wife and I went to visit some friends, specifically, my wife dropped me off at one of our friends houses, while she went to some other friend’s house. She went to see the improvements they had done to the place, specifically tiling the chapel floor that sits…

  • Association

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    I belong to two associations here near Bergerac. ACFAA ACFAA is a group of ~18 clubs and a language department that fall under the same banner in Eymet. There are non ACFAA clubs in Eymet as well. Needless to say, there is a lot to do in Eymet. There are a lot of Britts in…