The Big Move to France

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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Picard

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:53:05 +0100

Picard is a frozen food shop which I drive past almost every day. I assumed it was a bit like Iceland (not that there is anything wrong with Iceland of course) and so had never been in. Until someone told me yesterday it has M&S style ready-meals...

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Parties, papers and Paris

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:12:02 +0100

I haven't posted for a while as the modem has been taken out by a storm and there is only so much time one wants to spend in McDonalds. A few days ago Toby was seven. Seven!!!!! Where does time go? How did he get so big? etc etc so of course we h...

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Livi's report

nobody@vox.com(cacooper) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:40:54 +0100

We had Livi's "School report" today. Bearing in mind she is only four it is very thorough - there are about 50 categories of tasks and for each one she is given a mark of 1 (always does this) to 4 (never does this.) It all started off quite posit...

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