…that calls my lodgers on to new things. It is almost incredibly already two years since the Lödgerin handed back her front door keys to the rose-covered cottage.
On Sunday evening, Tutti Frutti did the same thing and set off for the next chapter in his life. He, however, has not gone to live in Germany [...]
Filed under: Friends on October 12th, 2009 | Comments Off
Before any more of July passes by, I feel compelled to record what I can remember of June.
After the very quiet months of April and May from a work point of view, June arrived with pleasant weather, the prospect of replenishing the elderflower cordial stocks and a general question mark about work levels.
Curiously, a couple [...]
Filed under: Food, Friends, Translation, Words on July 10th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
…that I was out of range of a mobile signal on Saturday. The thought of having to dredge up obscurely phrased sentences on a broken line – without being able to see the text I’d produced – would have been particularly trying.
As it was, I arose betimes, got all my walking stuff ready, packed a [...]
Filed under: Friends, Translation on June 1st, 2009 | 3 Comments »
…(see previous post), I thought I would tell you this little tale.
Last weekend I had invited some friends to dinner. Some arrived on time and we decided to enjoy our first chance of sitting in the garden as it was such a lovely evening. The disadvantage of this from my point of view was that [...]
A friend of mine here in the village earns her living as an actress (and when that work is thin on the ground she runs childrens’ drama workshops in one of the theatres here.) She phoned me earlier this evening with a request: she is going for an audition in London tomorrow and needs to [...]
Filed under: Friends, Words on October 7th, 2008 | Comments Off
I have always had a rather ambivalent relationship with the word “companion”. On the one hand, it conjures up a rather dowdy and spinsterish sort of image of an impoverised unmarried woman in her 30s condemned to spending her life being put upon by a demanding crotchety older woman with nothing better to do than [...]
Filed under: Friends, Words on October 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No trip to Paris would be complete without reference to Culture and Food.
Let’s start with the food. In retrospect, it feels like I ate a lot of salad. That doesn’t mean I ate salad a lot of times – I just ate a lot of salad. The first evening meal was a Goat’s Cheese and [...]
Filed under: France, Friends, Postcards on July 30th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Half an hour after my call to my mother in hospital, I had hastily packed a bag and was on my way to Paris.
Mais, comment? I hear you cry. Well, it all began as a bit of a joke.
Two years ago, my Australian friends spent five months on holiday in Europe (No, that’s not a [...]
Filed under: France, Friends, Postcards on July 30th, 2008 | Comments Off
At the end of last week after the Great Adventures and Incredibly Sticky Kitchen all on account of making my annual batch of Holunderblütensirup (translation specially for truthsign who asked a few days ago), I thought that chapter of my life had closed for this year.
But since then, the weather has been infinitely better for [...]
At the end of last week, the Lödgerin made her way by train across Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and France to come and see her friends and acquaintances for the first time she she left in October. It was a brief but enjoyable stay. She left early on Monday morning but not without having left [...]
Filed under: Food, Friends on April 16th, 2008 | 4 Comments »