7 Days: Day 4 – Lunch

Looking in the fridge to see what to have for my lunch. Apparently we have all the eggs ever laid in the world. However I went for just Gouda and homemade chutney in my sandwich, a few Mini Cheddars and a glass of water. And yes, I do realise that maybe that large yellow wall [...]

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7 Days: Day 3 – Sunshine

Five minutes in the garden looking at the blue sky having spent the day doing a transcript, filing a VAT return, updating a tourplan and – mainly – scowling at a papercut.

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7 Days: Day 2 – Yellow-ish

My challenge to myself today was to find a splash of natural yellow that wasn’t daffodils or forsythia, both of which can be found in the garden. If only I’d made yellow the theme when the fields around here were full of oilseed rape. I just don’t think these things through! I headed out on [...]

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7 Days: Day 1 – Best sandwich EVAH

I made a fancy lunch today. So fancy, that in fact I started making it yesterday evening. Meatball subs have intrigued me for a while, simply because of their pop culture status in my formative years. In other words, Joey from “Friends” liked them. However, the idea of keeping spherical meatballs and a bunch of [...]

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30 hours in Salzburg

Clearly just a simple day trip to France on a magical train that goes beneath the sea isn’t enough adventure for one week. So I added in 30 hours in Salzburg two days later, taking my inexplicably heavy rucksack with me on the magic metal tube that flies in the sky. I was met at [...]

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La soirée

Having pretty much done our sightseeing for the day we headed to the shops to spend a few Euros -and even though I came away with a very nice top from H&M, I’d completely forgotten that we’d gone shopping when it came to writing this post. So I when I saw that there was a [...]

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L’après-midi

So eventually we stopped people-watching and got back on our feet to wander the old town and photograph every square inch of it. Well, that’s what I did anyway. Lauren’s been there a lot, what with having once lived in the town and all, so she was focussed (ha, focussed!) more on just the details. [...]

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From petit déjeuner to déjeuner ordinaire

The night before we went to France I stayed at Lauren’s so that we could go to the station together. Lying in the dark on the futon that night I started to wonder what French I could remember, having dropped the subject at school 13 years ago. For a start, let’s see if I can [...]

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