The Big Move to France

Getting ready for Xmas

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:45:21 +0000

It is COLD!!!!! So cold. But the sky is blue today and the mountains look beautiful and the ski season has started, hooray! Toby was due to have his first "Mercredi a la Neige" yesterday - a thing they run around here where where you drop the kid...

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Building sites

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:37:34 +0000

It seems that all the Brits in France pretty much live on building sites. I do wonder if they all find it as stressful as I do, or if I am just neurotic. Yesterday I was working upstairs and heard Alex came into the kitchen with more swearing and...

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Photos of Portaventura

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:46:23 +0000

There are loads more which are probably better than these but it's not easy to add photos to Vox so they look nice. Or maybe I am just being thick....

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Portaventura and Barcelona

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:42:24 +0000

We are just back from a trip with the kids to Barcelona and Portaventura. One great thing about living here is it’s easy to get to lots of other places without needing to get on a plane. Barcelona is only about three hours away and now that we a...

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Fete de Pomme, Mirepoix

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:19:26 +0100

Here are some pics from the Fete de Pommes. Aren't they pretty? This morning I have been on a little trip with Livi's class to the market. We had a little look round and then they each had a vegetable they had to find and buy so they can make sou...

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Big night out

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:11:08 +0100

On Saturday night we went out. This might not sound very momentous, but as we still haven't found a babysitter, this is quite an event. We went to Film Club - which meant we could take the kids too. It's run by an English couple who every month o...

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Chipping

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:12:45 +0100

Alex has spent the last couple of months chipping the render off the house - all 600 m2 or so of it. This looks like the most boring task imaginable, Alex assures me it is, and it is incredibly dusty and horrible - I'm...

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New kittens

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:47:18 +0100

We have some kittens. We acquired them kind of by accident - a woman from the village who we know vaguely came round while I was out and asked Alex if we wanted them. She has a very strong Ariege accent and is almost incomprehensible to us and sh...

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Summer stuff

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:48:16 +0100

It is really,really hot now. And we have had friends staying, so have been doing lots of "stuff". We went to Domaine de Gayda which is a vineyard about an hour for here for lunch and it was fantastic. Such a beautiful setting and an amazing lunch...

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Back from the UK

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:36:44 +0100

We are just back from about 10 days in the UK - we went back for a friend's wedding which was excellent - she is a singer so all her singer mates were the choir and they did a tap dance as their first dance. Fab. While in the UK I also LOVED the ...

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