Destination Europe


When the plumbers were here earlier, they asked if it was just one person here taking showers. I said there were two of us and they responded so that’s 2 showers per day. I corrected them saying that’s 4 showers per day seeing we each take 2 showers, one in the morning and one in [...]

Seven or 8 months ago, our downstairs neighbour knocked on our door complaining of water leaking through their bathroom light fitting. They seemed to think the water was coming from our bathroom and with a little investigation we agreed they were right. We got a plumber in and he ‘fixed’ the problem. A few weeks [...]

I’ve been using Qumana to write my blog posts for the last 9 months or so and it has been fantastic. It saves me so much time when blogging, especially seeing I have more than one blog. I can create posts offline and then publish and then start writing the next post for the next [...]

Open Office

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I wrote yesterday about how I couldn’t get the spell checker to work after installing Open Office on my new computer. Obviously, with it being open source software it doesn’t come with everything pre-installed so I had to download the relevant files and install them myself. This took virtually no time and now there is [...]

New Laptop

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I spent last weekend in London. I desperately needed to buy a new computer and seeing I couldn’t stand the thought of using a French keyboard, I headed north to pick up a middle of the range laptop. Not that I really like the English keyboard either but at least it’s similar to the one [...]

I created blogs for each of the contestants for this year’s Nouvelle Star and so had no choice but to write them in French. I don’t have the time or inclination to sit around trying to write in a language other than my own so I used Google Translate to translate what I wrote into [...]

Today was a public holiday in France so, seeing the gym was closed, we decided to go for a long walk around Paris. We live around 30 minutes from Parc Andre Citroen so we headed there.
Just next to the park is the last stop of the new Paris Tramway so we thought we’d hop on [...]