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Cake & Bake accessories, Paris
Stocking all sorts of goodies for the baker that is hidden inside so many, Paris recently saw the opening of a new store, Cake & Bake accessories.
Tagged event photography, Paris, shops
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Champagne – celebrating France, life, and a region with bubbles (part I)
2012 is on path to be a good vintage. A celebration of life, a time of change, a step forward on the projects of 2011 and breaking ground on new ones ahead.
Yes, it is full of bubbles, spark, and much good company, including those to have recently passed through Paris; Norma of My Beautiful Paris, Mary Ann, Priscilla … and of course, ‘Fraussie’ – from my tiny and remote corner of Australia who also happens to be loving the life here in France.
Ahead lies a discovery of France from both within and outside the Peripherique, sometimes well away from the limits of Paris, at times crossing borders and finding a side that is often overlooked for the big city sister.
It means we’re finally winding the clock forward and starting the movement of the hands that have been frozen for the past three years. We’re going to think about selling, buying, and renovating – learning from the lessons of three years ago and dreaming bigger than before.
It’s going to be an amazing time ahead, and I’m so happy you’re here for the journey.
There can only be one drink and one place to celebrate…..Champagne.
Also posted in Champagne-Ardenne
Tagged carams, cards, champagne, France, France photos, French Postcards, paris postcards, Village views
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Arctic temperatures and a kick-butt Vin Chaud
Brrrr. Everybody is talking about it, the cold that is. Minus 10degrees celcius this morning! In our eleven years in France, it’s the coldest we’ve seen the temperatures drop to, and it is showing on the streets. Outdoor café tables and chairs that are normally filled with smokers, sit empty as everyone has taken to the indoors.
Given that it is forecast to remain well into the negatives until next week, we’re staying in, wrapped up with a kick-butt vin chaud simmering away. I’ve experimented with lots, but the cognac in this one gives it the extra buzz needed on a chilly day like this. Continue reading
En fin….French frosts & a sign of the big ‘W’
Winter held out right till the very last day this year.
Unlike last year when it hit us early with a bang, or the year before when a silly teenager rode her moped to school in conditions like those in the above photos, only to fall at an intersection, slide across an icy road and under the front my car, resulting in a three car pile-up of oncoming traffic who stopped to rubber neck, a policeman to fall on his butt in the midst of it all and general all round havoc at morning peak hour ……..this year has been drama free with little sign of the big ‘W’.
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A missing winter in France?
Grey skies have settled in, Christmas lights are ready to go, and Quality Streets are waiting to fill the pockets of the Advent Calendar.
But the temperatures are all over the place. Instead of being snowed in, we’re hanging around, twiddling our thumbs, waiting for the snow …and hoping winter doesn’t skip by like summer did before it.
Le sigh….
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Tagged France, Paris, Snow
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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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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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An apple a day….is best shared with friends
Last autumn when the apples were sitting on the trees coming of age, waiting to be plucked and bitten into, we made an unexpected trip to the US. We hadn’t planned to be in Connecticut a couple of weeks after the return to school, but sometimes life throws you a rotten apple, and well, there’s not much you can do about that when it happens.
Feet up – c’est la rentrée
Loads of parents were planning on today as being their feet-up day after two months of summer vacation. After all, it’s ‘la rentrée’ and school’s back in.
I’m old hand at this rentrée business and should have adjusted by now, yet I slunk out of the school gate, heading home to hide the tears. There I encounter a silence that is deafening, missing the company of the little people very much. Stoic parent isn’t a role I play very well.
Hope the back to school hasn’t been too hard on anyone and if you are someone who was able to put your feet up, good for you.
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The merry-go-round of life & a beautiful Parisian carrousel
Forever surprised by the spins and turns of life, I can’t wait to share things over the coming months, from the details of our three year court battle at the district court in Versailles, to the fun projects that are ahead.
Tagged carrousels, France
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Carams elsewhere
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