Monthly Archives: October 2011

Toussaint. Translation = sleep-in!

Perfect skies have woken us lately, autumn pinks in the later part of the  morning, rich blues in the early evening.

When we head out the door in the morning for the mad dash to school, it is still dark with street lights glowing and frosts nipping at our ankles.. I won’t see the glow for the next two weeks though as the Toussaint school holidays started today. Toussaint translates to sleep-in. Yes, day after day after day of extended sleeping – can you here the bliss in my voice?

I have to go practice :) Have a great weekend.

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Brocantes – the ultimate French treasure hunt

A few weeks ago I headed to Lille with Geni to discover the biggest flea market in Europe. It was mind blowing. Street after street, we’d turn a corner and not know which direction to take, each inch of footpath space taken up by someone selling nothing.

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One. Five. Fifty. The largest importance in the smallest of numbers.

I’m posting on our Posterous page today. Please do click and read as it is an important topic that we all need to keep foremost in our minds and be generous from our wallets.

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