One thing I'm really happy to have brought back from Germany with me is my Stövchen
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This is one of the best summer I've ever had. Although the weather is far from being clement; although we're not going anywhere on vacation; although the official term for my summer isn't vacation, but unemployment. Despite of all this, I feel that we are in the middle of two months of bliss. Apart from grocery shopping from time to time, there is ( Read more... )

Today we visited the castle of Langeais ( Loire valley, France):


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42°C is equivalent to approximately 107°F. That was the peak temperature today in the yard. 

One of the things I love about my job, is that I never know what next crazy thing I'll be asked to do. In this school, you better be multi-talented. Yesterday we did some welding and we sawed an oak beam for an art project. Today I happened to... dance a salsa with the music teacher. The pupils didn't get the rhythm correctly so she decided that ( Read more... )

iconoclass  being the good fairy bent vegan vampire seeking for healthy natural living of us two (I'm just a witch), she's gradually brought me to considering alternative ways of eating, living, and taking care of myself.

One of the things I've been unhappy with for years is shampoo. My hair needs to be cleaned pretty often and my scalp is very dry. Recently ( Read more... )

I remember that when I first got in this house, it was in the context of an emergency situation and though it was a good shelter, I didn't feel like I had chosen to be there, so it bothered me a bit.

Now I realize that today, there is no other place where I would like to be. I like this place a lot. With the sunny days coming, it's really a ( Read more... )

... is that it makes you realize how lucky you are to live in the countryside.


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iconoclass  and I did some gardening this afternoon. We took away the weed, aired the soil, and planted some cilantro and tomatoes. Oh, and a piece of garlic too.

If someone had told me last year at the same period that I would be gardening, I would have laughed. Yet here I am, thrilled about seing the first tomato leaves get out of the soil.

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Two things.

1) I am reading again some kind of a diary that I wrote more than twenty years ago. I wonder how this frail, irrational, fearful, dreamy, drama-oriented sort of princess that I was gave birth to what I am now. If I met her now, I wouldn’t bet a penny on her. Yet look what she’s become. Miracles do happen.

2) While I’m at past gazing and ( Read more... )