Posted in Living on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, what eventful days we’ve had! At least, they’ve tossed up a few good sagas to report on. Possibly the weirdest and most interesting was what happened last night. Let’s start with the Saga of the Radiohead Tickets.
We’d been tossing the idea of seeing the Radiohead concert backwards and forwards for some time. For a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here I am in Starbucks on some dodgy internet connection (being too cheap to pay for the actual connection here, so I keep on getting kicked off – would you believe they expect you to pay £2-£3 for your coffee AND £5 an hour for internet?! Outrage!) all on my lonesome as M has gone [...]
Posted in Living on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
But at least I’m getting this nice massage by typing this entry. To my horror, I had written a 400 word entry (more of a short story, to my mind), published it, and then gone to edit it, when I found it had entirely disappeared, leaving only the title, “End of unlimited internet…” I was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
YS on our nicely residential street
The somewhat utilitarian exterior. The bit that looks like a garage is actually our bedroom. It has some funny acoustic properties similar to being in a large metal bin.
The “before” picture of the garden. It looks better now as M took the mower to it yesterday. Once it’s fully tidied, [...]
Posted in Living on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hello everybody! I’m just looking at broadband-phone bundles to set our flat up with. If we’re feeling extravagant, or if M really, really wants to watch the golf on pay TV, we may even get the broadband-phone-cable TV packages. I’d say that’s unlikely though… We did get a bit excited yesterday, because there are these [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, we’ve been here one week! And it seems rather ironic that the moment we get our own laptop and free (we hope) internet connection, we stop writing in the blog. Well, in our defence, we’ve been quite busy. We were just running through the week’s doings and then realised that while we have been [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
YS enjoying Leigh St, London
The stairs up to our rooms at Chateau Jaulny. Musty smell!
Trapped in Chateau Jaulny!!! (note ghostly white figure behind M)
YS donning medieval helmet with sword at Les Champs Bayeux (Belfort)
YS at writing table in our sitting room at posh Les Egrignes
M golfing near Lons-le-Saunier
We happened to be in Lyon just when [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hello, avid blog readers! Here we are in Bloomsbury and making the most of our few days in London to do house-hunting and job searching. We haven’t looked at a single sight yet!
We arrived on Friday afternoon and went straight to our hotel, Gower House Hotel, which was rather a dump. It was a grotty [...]
Posted in Travel on June 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is really a pertinent question in Paris, home of fine food. We do have a theory, however, about restaurants with cheap menus (that is to say, 10€ or thereabouts). Sometimes the 10€ menu can be fairly ordinary, but it is the same cook who cooks the 20€ menu also offered, so does that mean [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(as written by the Ark of Yark)
Well, we have made it to Paris (Pronounced ‘Pareeeeee!) after our long journey through the French countryside and are taking some time out at an internet cafe to catch up on things and start to organise work stuff for London. Our recent locations have been sorely lacking in the interent [...]
