tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80959860828552144812024-03-13T21:33:00.786-07:00bunnies & stripesCarrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-72825687568101174392017-06-07T09:31:00.001-07:002017-06-07T09:31:52.922-07:00Like clockwork<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So we sort of moved. Again. Yup. It tends to happen every 2 years like clockwork around here. Except this time we stayed in the same country and even in the same town! A first for me!!! Pretty much a miracle. I've also had to promise never to move again. At least not in the next 2 (or 3 or 4 or 5) years. Soooooo, this is it! Our new home for the foreseeable future! It's smaller but big enough, with 3 bedrooms (or 1 bedroom and 2 offices that both double as guest rooms), a garage and 2 bonus rooms in the attic for storing all sorts of stuff, as well as a cellar for storing all sorts of stuff unless you're scared of big hairy spiders in which case it's nice to have a husband around to fetch the water and the wine when you need them. The flat's biggest selling point initially was that it is oh. so. quiet. Goodbye cobbled street, goodbye tractors and lorries speeding past at 5 AM and making the walls tremble, I will not miss you one bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was slightly worried that I would miss the old wooden floors and high ceilings though, so before I started packing our things up 3 months ago I took a few shots of my favourite spots in our grand old noisy flat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I never felt quite at home in that flat so I didn't make a real effort to get it perfect, but here are some of my favourite spots:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The living room was undeliably the star of the show, although we never did manage to hang a lampshade in there. The stepladder was a teeny bit too short and I love my husband a teeny bit too much to want him to risk his life for the sake of decor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dining room had a few nice corners too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'll miss the view of the church, although I can still see the steeple from my new office window and I can still hear it loud and clear, so no worries there. We even have a stork family living really close by, on top of the building just opposite ours, AND they just had triplets!!! Pictures soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Husband has managed to keep all his dark moody furniture AND buy a new piece and fit it all into a much smaller office. How does he do it? Easy. He does not really care about feng shui or esthetics as long as everything is in it's place and he can play the guitar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As much as I loved our bedroom, I have to let you in on a little secret: we didn't use it. Actually, I used it as my office for the last year or so, but it was just too noisy to sleep in. Didn't stop me from making it look pretty though. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Husband bought this moneybox in an antique shop last time we were in Hebden Bridge. The inscription says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Neither a borrower nor a lender be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For loan oft loses both itself and friend;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Quite the conversation piece I think! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So we ended up sleeping in what was originally the guest room as it was quieter. Once the upstairs neighbour was asleep, anyway. She's a lovely lady but never wears her hearing aids when at home and likes to watch a lot of TV before bed. As her bedroom is right above this one, we, in effect, "watched" a lot of TV too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is where you get the one and only photo of the grey carpet that was in 2 of the three bedrooms and the massively long and whide hallway. So not the nicest bedroom, as you can see. I definitely do not miss it!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now the new place... had this view a few weeks ago... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Although who needs a balcony when you have a ... *drumroll* ... GARDEN !!! Yep, with grass and ants and spiders and everything! Including a vegetable patch (at least the beginnings of one)! And strawberries! And raspberries! And lots of other surprises that have yet to be photographed! Hopefully before the next move ;)</span></div>
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Carrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-87478508296665460602016-12-30T07:39:00.000-08:002016-12-30T07:39:43.370-08:00Basel by night<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A couple of weeks ago, a friend of ours who is a successful local author and historian (and looks rather like Santa Claus) took us on a guided tour of the city of Basel in Switzerland. It was beautiful but bitterly cold so I didn't work up the courage to get my camera out until we'd almost finished the tour and night was falling. Basel is located right on the Rhein and has lots of pretty bridges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To warm up, we ended the afternoon with a visit to two of the Christmas markets for some hot chocolate (in a collector's mug, thank you very much, not a horrid plastic cup. I'm looking at you, France!!!). The markets were so different from the French ones and reminded me of the German ones I discovered as a 9-year old. There's some proper Christmas magic going on here. The lights and decorations are tasteful, all the food looks delicious and there's even a market dedicated to the children with lots of activites (candle-making, woodworking, etc.) and a little train you can ride on (even if you're an adult. Not that we did. I swear).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lots of beautiful things to see in Basel and it's always nice to have your own private tour guide who knows lots of interesting stories. As much as I like reading guidebooks when preparing a trip, I can never be bothered to get them out once I get to wherever I'm going so I usually end up forgetting half of what there is to see. Anyone else?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The second Christmas market was bigger and quite busy and maybe not as charming as the first, but it was still a lot nicer than your average Colmar Christmas market. Also loads more expensive, but that's Switzerland for you! They have the salaries to go with the high prices. In fact, if anyone knows of any job vacancies over there, I'm all ears...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I hope you're enjoying the holidays and ready for a new year to begin! By the way, have you ever heard of the 12 days of Christmas weather forecast? Apparently from the day after Christmas until the 6th of January, people used to study the weather closely and use it to forecast what each month of the coming year would be like. I've found lots of different explanations on various websites, this is really a thing! (and someone told us today that it's pretty reliable too) My mind is blown. I feel like I'm all set for 2017 now that I have this new superpower. No more meteofrance.fr for me!!!</span></div>
<br />Carrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-78980966475960666102016-12-23T01:15:00.001-08:002016-12-23T02:53:44.240-08:00Deck the stairs !<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One thing I love about our building is that our neighbours across the landing are very committed to making it look nice. Which makes sense as the building has been in their family for several generations. They used to run the shops downstairs (expensive lingerie and clothes on one side and a very large "everything home related, oh and lots of old-fashioned cleaning things, random food such as organic pizza dough and a few souvenirs of Munster for good measure" type shop on the other side), which are now run by their two daughters (one of them is our landlady). Anyway, it sounds complicated but it's actually very simple: this building is very important to the family and therefore, the communal areas get nicely decorated for Christmas every year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I had no idea <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that</span> the title of this post <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is</span> a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lso</span></span> the name of a Dutch website that sells all sorts of amazing things! <a href="http://www.kitschkitchen.nl/en/" target="_blank">Take a look</a>, you won't regret it! Well, maybe you will next month when you have no money left for Christmas presents...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I thought a good place to start my big return to the blogosphere would be with a little kitchen tour. I have tours planned of the rest of the flat too, but as the kitchen was quite tidy this morning it made life easier for me to start there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let me warn you though, this kitchen doesn't rhyme with streamlined or super practical or modern. When we moved in, it featured nothing except the (boring, standard white) sink unit. Apparently it's normal in Alsace to rent properties without built-in kitchens, tenants are expected to provide their own appliances AND furniture. Sooo, I went to my trusty Leboncoin website and found the perfect cupboards to go with the vintage tile and overall very... errrr... quaint... look that the landlady has going on in here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know the wall is very bare, it's my biggest problem with this place: I'm not supposed to turn the walls into gruyere cheese, i.e. make any holes to hang pictures, so I've tried to use existing holes. There used to be a matching picture next to this one but one day it decided to jump off onto the floor and the glass from the frame shattered into a million pieces (the nail actually just fell out of its hole, don't ask me how or why). I haven't got round to replacing it, but hey, I can't be expected to do practical things like that AND go back to writing blog posts all at once!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Notice the two windows? The one on the left opens onto the stairwell, which is why it has a roller blind. I guess the neighbours don't really want to see me with my grumpy face, messy hair and<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> tartan</span> pyjamas when they leave for work in the mornings<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wonder why.</span></span> </span></div>
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Carrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-52599477377451893292016-11-12T01:33:00.001-08:002016-11-12T01:33:17.415-08:00Tying the knot<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So... last September, I got married!!! This explains (in part) the long silence. Planning a wedding is time consuming to say the least. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I thought posting a few pictures would be a good way of getting back into the swing of all things blog related.There are lots of little changes around the flat that I really want to show you. Stay tuned, hopefully the next post won't take 10 months! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We're slowly settling in and furnishing our gigantic home. It's looking pretty full to be honest. Now I worry about what we will do with all this furniture when we eventually move... some pieces I will definitely keep forever though, like... my new Scandinavian armchairs!! Spotted online, delivered from Reims to Paris by the seller, then delivered from Paris to Munster by our lovely friends who kindly agreed to visit us for the weekend and bring them. Don't worry though, they were rewarded with large quantities of white wine, beer, cheese and other Alsacian delights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The chairs look as good from the back as they do from the front. I had originally planned to leave the sofa where it was against the wall and to place these directly across from it, so you could see their backs from the dining room. The fact that the seller threw a footstool (that I really love using now that I'm an old lady) in for free has confused me to no end and I'm really not sure about this setup but I've decided to live with it for a while and see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Please ignore the hideous coffee table and picture something with white marble and a modern vibe. I know exactly what it should look like, I just can't find it for sale anywhere. Marble is having a bit of a moment though, so hopefully soon! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I still love my little cabinet and it's currently housing some Japanese finds from our stop in San Francisco, along with other little treasures and some pretty plates/bowls/cups that were given to me as christening presents when I was a baby! So random! The plant had a close call recently after a red spider invasion, but after several days of worrying and spraying and more spraying and more worrying, I think it's safe to say it's on the mend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the bedroom front, I found some nice marble-topped nightstands for a steal (all this "new" furniture is from houses in town that are being emptied to be put on the market. I think the more stuff you've inherited, the less you're interested in getting loads of money for it and there are some serious bargains to be had). Then I saw <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/232639136978494884/" target="_blank">this idea</a> on Pinterest and though, well why not? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I love this bedroom. It's a shame we can't really use it as it's very very noisy. The road that goes past our flat is one of only two that lead out of the Munster valley, where there are lots of touristy things to do (skiing, hiking, riding loud motorbikes and quad bikes) as well as a few factories. The lorries that rumble past (on the cobbles, naturally) at 4AM every morning actually make the bed tremble. I've always been a light sleeper and I initially thought this was my chance at getting used to noise. After 4 months though, I can't even get a proper night's sleep in the guest bedroom next door to this one, even though it's much quieter. I do like to come in here and pretend to be royalty sometimes though. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also bought off the lady who sold us the big lamp. She gave us the matching nightstands too, but while cleaning them Boyfriend realised they were FULL of woodworm. The wardrobe has a few holes in the base so he treated it before we installed it, but the nightstands are too far gone to be used safely. They're now in the cellar waiting to be taken to... the tip? I don't know what to do with them! I don't think donating them is a good idea. They look great from the front but the backs are like Swiss cheese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of these days you might get a full house tour too, but for that to happen I would have to tidy all the other rooms and run out of work, which hasn't happened since before the move. I'm not complaining though, more money to buy our dream-house with !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sorry, the last couple of months have been busy to say the least. You'll be happy to hear we're settling into our new home very nicely. After a rocky week following my last post, we actually really lucked out and found an amazing flat in Munster. I'm going to try not to use too many superlatives here, but god, it's the biggest and prettiest and brightest and at the moment, hottest place I've ever lived! Before I bore you with the story of just how lucky we were to end up here, some pictures of our humble abode. They're not the best pictures but I couldn't wait any longer to show you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some of the furniture and a lot of the layout is temporary. Please ignore the coffee table and the too-small rug and the lack of things on the wall. We're definitely still settling in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">However I have already found an addition to my collection of 50's furniture: this pretty little cabinet that cost me €20 and is in mint condition! Perfect for displaying my Japanese ceramics from San Francisco. Oh yes, one of these days I will start posting about our trip to America! So much to say, so many photos to edit... but I've started! So stay tuned...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Recognise the cabinet? The ceilings are so high here it's a little bit intimidating, but handy for storing pictures that seem to have lost their hanging wire at some point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So now for the story of the flat: months ago when I announced our intention to move to Munster on facebook, one of my friends and former colleague virtually introduced me to one of her friends who lived in Munster. We had a little chat and said how nice it would be to go for coffees and to know someone in our new town even before living there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the preemption incident I posted a little ran on facebook (like you do), to vent my anger and frustration. The same day, this lovely girl got in touch, saying she was in the middle of moving out of a flat in Munster and would she like me to have a word with her landlady. After seeing a few pictures of the flat (I'm looking at you, chevron floors), I was pretty much sold. To top it off, our landlady is the sweetest (oops, another superlative) and didn't question our (financial) situation for one second. She didn't even want a bond, but we gave her one anyway. She went out of her way to make the move as smooth as possible for us and as she runs the shop downstairs, we see her all the time and get little discounts on all sorts of cute stuff. Also, her parents (who used to run the shops and own the building) live across the hall from us and have already given us a melon from the South of France (when they got back from holiday), a huge courgette from their garden, and a jar of home made quetsche jam. I almost forgot to mention that the rent is extremely reasonable and that for the first time ever, I don't even feel frustrated that I don't own a home. So the little bank incident was quite definitely a blessing in disguise. We're now taking our time and looking at all our options before we make a move towards buying a property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Although we're on a very busy street, we do have a georgous balcony for growing plants on. With the heat wave we've been having, they're doing extremely well and I'm feeling like an accomplished gardner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lots more pics to come, of our (3! Three!! As in 2 and then another one) bedrooms, formica-infused kitchen and lots of other bits. Oh and the lake that you go swimming in when it's too hot. So basically as they say in French, we're like a fish in water and pretty thrilled with our new life in the land of cheese (so many cheeses! so good!)</span></div>
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Carrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-3975085009603468342015-06-10T09:22:00.001-07:002015-06-10T09:22:54.521-07:00Falling flat on our faces<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, we just lost our dream flat, 3 days before closing, 3 weeks before moving (across the channel). Movers booked, workers booked, paint colours chosen, ferry booked, furniture sold, French car bought and insured... and now the bank downstairs from the flat (I can't say OUR flat anymore) preempts us and buys it! And not even for banking purposes! Just so that the bank manager's mistress can have a convenient place to wash her hair and shave her skinny legs (that's what we've decided anyway). It's all perfectly legal and there's nothing we can do and no, we're not entitled to compensation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So we're back to renting. I'm trying hard not to think about the money and hours spent working on this. I have to deconstruct all the things I constructed in my head. Where the sofa was going to go (how GOOD it would have looked!), what colour the kitchen was going to be. How much it cost us to fly to France and back to sign the contract that ended up in the shredder. How much of other people's time was wasted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The bottom line is... a four letter word which I won't say on here. However, I'm very much aware of the fact that this a rich person's problem. Worse things happen. We're not homeless, we're not pennyless, and we have options. And a bottle of rosé in the fridge. The world is packed with beautiful homes. After 2 days of searching, I'm reminded that it also has its fair share of incredibly ugly ones. Let's see what we end up with this time...</span></div>
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<br />Carrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-69961135144512559822015-04-03T00:06:00.002-07:002015-04-03T03:24:27.682-07:00Moving forward<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">...through treacle. At least that's what it feels like at the moment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">- accepting quotes for painters and parquet floor renovators, debating over crown molding (the most fun part! but even that isn't fun because it's surrounded by non-fun tasks), </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">- trying to sell our car and find a decent left hand drive one over here that will be big enough for all our junk (read: guitars, amps, houseplants),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">- getting rid of half our stuff to make up for the fact that I'm determined to keep at least some of the gorgeous furniture we bought over here (I'm looking at you, Chesterfield sofa!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh yes, and in the middle of all this, our honeymoon/non-honeymoon to America! A 1-month road trip across 13 States that will involve lots of historic places and forlorn little villages, good food, fancy cocktails and hopefully many memories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Temporary unemployment has sent me on a pinning frenzy, so if you want to see exactly what our future home might look like if we had unlimited supplies of money, head over to my <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/carrot/for-the-home/" target="_blank">Pinterest board</a> dedicated to this very matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh, and one more thing: Happy Easter, Bunnies!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will be feasting on all the leftover chocolates next week as I'm currently doing <a href="http://flipper.diff.org/app/items/6612" target="_blank">this diet</a>. Don't worry, it looks scarier than it is. I'm on day 32 out of 40 and feeling better than ever!</span></div>
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Carrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-59818364596022729452015-03-13T03:09:00.001-07:002015-03-13T03:10:20.332-07:00My personal point of view<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A few weeks ago I quite randomly stumbled upon a <a href="http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp" target="_blank">Myers Briggs personality test.</a> I had never taken a personality test before and was quite intringued by the whole thing. I gave each question a lot of thought and this is what the interwebs told me: I am an INFJ. That's the rarest type! The general description seemed to fit surprisingly well so I did a bit more research and found some very interesting articles and quotes that really spoke to me.</span></div>
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lost and misunderstood. Once we learn that we are not alone and that
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overjoyed and almost "normal." Even if the description of an INFJ does not fit us 100%, it still
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Carrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-76080678553489546992015-02-25T08:10:00.000-08:002015-02-25T08:10:41.184-08:00On growing older - part 2<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So in my last post I mentionned our lovely B&B and you got a glimpse of Boyfriend's full English, complete with birthday candle. Here are some more shots of our room: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While browsing the interwebs for a B&B I saw this room and was really taken with it, specially when I realised I had never actually slept in a four-poster bed. So there! Now I have! And let me tell you, it's just like sleeping in a normal bed. Well, maybe a little bit nicer...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We stayed in Windermere and although I realise now that it's one of the more touristy and less remote areas of the Lake District, you have to start somewhere! Next time we'll venture out further north into the more picturesque landscape. This time we stayed <a href="http://www.lakedistrictguesthouse.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, and it was very very nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm still not entirely sure how Flopsy came into our lives, but here he is in all his bunny glory!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Beatrix Potter "World", although sweet and everything, was a big disappointment for me. For some reason I had imagined a huge park with long walks and little animals hidden in the bushes. I think I may have just confused it with somewhere else. Although apparently you can visit Beatrix's house and that's supposed to be quite nice. I should have done my homework and researched the whole thing a bit more before we headed off! Anyway, it still made for a nice (15 minute) distraction. Specially the garden (which really is only the size of a garden).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As for the dioramas inside... most of them were nicely executed, some of them were slightly creepy... I'll let you decide!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another place that didn't make us want to stay was the Drunken Duck. I may be getting this one confused with somewhere else too, but when I saw we were about to drive past and that it was lunchtime I suggested a stop as it sounded vaguely familiar and yummy. A glass of over-priced wine later, we left to look for somewhere a bit less fussy with more customer-friendly staff. The food which the other guests were eating looked nice but maybe not actually worth the amount they were being charged for it and although I like seriously good food (see our experience of the legendary <a href="http://bunniesandstripes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/an-english-road-trip-pig-brockenhurst.html" target="_blank">PIG</a>), I only like it when combined with a friendly atmosphere and a bit of fairy dust. To be fair though, the pub where we ended up, although cheap, was pretty rubbish!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So this was our first experience of the Lake District. Hopefully there will be more! And next time I will research every pub and restaurant very carefully before we leave home!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Throwing cosy parties in local pubs and getting the most unexpected and sweetest hand-made presents. Also looking around at 2AM while everyone is singing "Wild Rover" and feeling extremely content (not pictured).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And if it comes with delicious nachos, then so be it. Oh, and a bit of improvised song-writing on the side! I kind of discovered that I'm quite good at it too! Proof that it's never too late....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Boyfriend had already opened his main present but I still wanted to get him something to open on the day so I ordered this set of <a href="http://www.hurnandhurn.com/menu-a-s-wine-breather-carafe-wine-aerator-plus-water-carafe-special-edition-set-p896?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=menu-a-s-winebreather-glass-wine-carafe-decanter-with-free-water-caraf-0894&utm_campaign=product%2Blisting%2Bads&gclid=Cj0KEQiAvKunBRCfsum9z6fu_5IBEiQAu4lg4tkhudmD2_ZbWaGTT6LF7nOW7rxZ7JTKuUos28etDGMaArwb8P8HAQ" target="_blank">fancy decanters. </a>I wasn't too sure about them but they are actually beautiful and have been used many times already!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I thought the birthday candle in the sausage was a nice touch, Boyfriend wasn't impressed. What do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Next time: a few pics of the Beatrix Potter museum, some lovely countryside and a tour of our posh B&B!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You didn't think it was ever coming, did you? Me neither. Here are the rest of my pics from our trip to Wales taken in september!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's been quite a while so I may have forgotten the names of some places but I'll give it a go anyway. All you need to do is look at the pictures and then book your trip to Wales. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> First off, Conwy castle (I think):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This, I'm 100 sure, is Penmon Point: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a pigeon house on the way to Penmon Point:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This next one is easy because I took a picture of the sign: Pen Y Cil and the village of Aberdaron</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Cutest (and possibly oldest) cafe in Wales:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This next one is also pretty easy: Snowden! Or rather, the never ending walk down from Snowden after catching the train up to the top. The colours were so beautiful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So there you have it. A quick summary of our visit to Wales! Finally!</span>Carrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-26472703953725869392015-02-09T01:48:00.000-08:002015-02-09T01:48:02.973-08:00New beginnings<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well it's been quite a while since my last post, don't you think? Not to worry, everything is fine, I've just been a very busy bunny! Winter always makes me want to hibernate a little, so time that should have been spent blogging has been spent wrapped up in multiple blankets, either sitting on the sofa watching Japanology episodes (I may have a mild obsession for Japan at the moment) or tucked up in bed with a good book. When you spend all day in front of a screen, sometimes the thought of editing photos and sorting them out is just no fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">HOWEVER. To make up for the silence, I have some very big news: we're moving!! But that's not all: we're moving back to France!! But wait, there's more: we're going to be property owners for the first time ever!!! Excited doesn't even begin to describe the feeling you get from anticipating being allowed to make as many holes in the wall as you like. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We've loved our time in Hebden Bridge (and we won't be moving until the end of June, so plenty of time still! That's what I'm telling myself anyway. We also have plans to spend a couple of months here every year. More on that later) but there are various things that made us want to move back to France. One major thing is the health system. I won't go into detail because this is a happy blog and I know I have it better than many, even in the UK, but the bottom line is, due a sports injury, I may need a small operation and after 8 months of waiting and being in pain and getting absolutely nothing out of the NHS, I'm ready to be taken seriously now by lovely French doctors who HAVE given me x-rays and listened to me and actually want to me to get better :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway, enough of the sad reasons! Want to know the good reasons? You get a little more bang for your buck in France, and as we had some money that we wanted to invest wisely, we decided buying a property in a slightly touristy area, close to my Mum and with some pretty great hospitals, not to mention the delicious wine, would be a safe bet. Unless we're in for a nasty surprise, we definitely scored a bargain with our ninety square metre flat! Want to see?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In no particular order, (and bearing in mind that the vinyl floor is coming up to hopefully reveal original hardwood floors and that all the walls are getting a fresh coat of white... for now!):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kitchen consists of a large room with 2 windows and a sink. Let's see how we get on installing units on walls with no 45° angles! I'm thinking lots of white cupboards, wooden work surfaces, and a bit of a scandi vibe. And a Belfast sink! And an extractor hood that can actually take cooking smells outside instead of further up in the room like the one we have now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The flat is right on the main street, close to all the shops including a little organic supermarket that I already love. The painted facade you can see across the street is by Edgar Mahler, a pretty talented local artist. On days when the wind cooperates, the smell of freshly ground coffee from the coffee shop across the street will greet us when we open our windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And finally, my favourite feature: the living room with huge bay windows. Can't you just picture our green Chesterfield sofa in that nook? I also love love love the original doors. They're painted a slightly greyish beige at the moment, along with the skirting boards. You can't tell from the pics but the paint needs freshening up a bit. I'm not sure whether to choose a colour and hope it goes in every room, or to pick something different for each space once we've settled in. What do you think?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think the only rooms you haven't seen are the second bedroom off the other side of the living room and the hallway complete with popcorn ceiling and ugly boiler. One of these days I'll be posting a floorplan too. For now I just wanted to give you an idea of the space (The high ceilings! The big windows! The tons of natural light!)</span>. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't say that I always dreamed of living in a flat without a garden or balcony or outside space whatsoever, but this is definitely the best we can get for our money and to be honest I'm kind of relieved that I won't have to worry about cat poo ending up in all my plant pots and on my terrace in future. The plan is to save up like crazy for the next few years and then look into buying a "forever home" with a vegetable garden and a dozen fireplaces. In the meantime, we'll make the most of the surrounding parks and walk up into the mountains to get our daily dose of nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As for the location, the flat is in Alsace, a beautiful area of France right near the German border, in a town which is famous for its (smelly) cheese. I've already checked out the swimming pool/spa/gym, which is within walking distance, and surprisingly enough, works out cheaper than our current gym membership. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have this weird thing that I like/have to do when people give me flowers: I sort them by colour. Anyone else? Just me? Ok then. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As our Summer had been a lot busier than planned (I'm talking about work here, not fun in the sun), we had to scrap our plan to go on a week-long road trip across Wales before landing at a cottage in Blaenau Ffestiniog for a week. We also had to work part of the time we were at said cottage, BUT we managed to squeeze in lots of fun with friends, and that's all that counts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had always wanted to visit Wales and as it's really not far at all from Yorkshire, I decided this year was the year. I booked our cottage months ago, sometime in the Spring and definitely on a whim, and it was a lovely little place. If only I had done more research I may have stumbled upon the fact that Blaenau Ffestiniog stands for bleak and rainy. Luckily for us, the rain held out for most of the week! As for the bleak... well, it wasn't too bleak except for the gastro-scene. Let's put it this way: after a couple of days we decided we were better off living on garlic-bread from the Co-op. At least that stuff never disappoints!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By pure chance, some of our dear friends from Paris were also going to be in the area at the same time, so what might have been a week of me waiting for Boyfriend to finish proof-reading yet another book turned into a lovely time of exploring castles and going on looooong walks and searching for decent food. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also really love not being in charge, as that's the default setting when it's just the two of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well I'm going to leave you with these pics for now as this post was ready weeks ago but a mysterious, nerve-wracking and totally unresolved broadband issue has stopped me from posting... I've pretty much lost hope of ever getting a decent connexion speed again, after 30 hours on the phone and a switch of provider and 3 different technicians coming to our house. I'm tired. I'm fed up. I don't know how I'm ever going to be able to upload photos ever again, luckily I managed to sneak a few more of Wales onto my Flickr page before this hellish nightmare happened. Take a look <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/56386016@N03/" target="_blank">here</a></span>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know summer is over and it makes me very sad, so to cheer me (and you?) up a bit, here are some pics I took during a walk along the canal back in August. I'm pretty sure some of these flowers aren't endemic to Yorkshire but they certainly seem to be thriving!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This cluster of houses is where the tropical (and general flowery) magic seems to take place. Ready to be transported to a fairyland of vibrant flowers and tiny garden gates and neatly growing lettuce in no particular order?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'd like to finish off by showing you how the wildlife is doing. The geese are as hissy as ever with us humans but they seem to be getting on just fine with their Canadian cousins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The local cats had a rather zen Summer, mainly spent sitting around with eyes half-closed, being cats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some are naturally more perplexed (and adorable) than others, but I can assure you, we love them all just the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, that was Summer along the canal! I will be turning 30 (gaaaaaaaah) in 2 days and celebration preparations are in full swing (the brownie is in the oven. I repeat, the brownie is in the oven). I can't quite believe I'm a real grown-up now, I still feel like I'm just pretending most of the time. Oh well, here's to pretending, and being, and enjoying, and succeeding!</span></div>
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Carrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-89529496191361888832014-10-05T02:16:00.000-07:002014-10-05T02:16:59.293-07:00Yorkshire Sculpture Park<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So that's what a freelance translator's Summer is like... let me just try and remember that for next year so that I can have all my fun during a different season... No really, sorry bunnies, I seem to have drowned in work over the last few months and am just creeping out of my nest and into the dazzling October sunlight. Forgive me for the long silence. I have lots of adventures to tell you about!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Let's start with an adventure that happened in July! My Mama came to visit us and it was the perfect occasion to go to Yorkshire Sculpture Park as I had been wanting to go for ages (this is the view from the restaurant balcony. Not too shabby). Ok, mostly because I had spotted <a href="http://www.hurnandhurn.com/homeware-c1/tableware-c164/side-plate-sets-c289/magpie-wildlife-dusk-plates-set-of-4-hare-fox-owl-otter-in-gift-box-p1025" target="_blank">these plates</a> in their online gift shop and I really really liked them...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then it looked like this. A definite improvement, but the multiple colours still stang my eyes a little, and although I loved seing my collection of vintage books and miscellaneous objects, I was concerned that they would get sun damaged if I didn't protect them in some way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What do you think? Yes to material in bookcase doors? I gave the rest of the material to my Mama who is going to make cushions out of it for her new house! Yay for matching house decor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On a completely unrelated greenery update note: we have two huge Jasmine trees on our back terrace and a couple of branches were growing dangerously close to the dustbin, risking decapitation each time someone opened and closed the lid. So I decided to give them a longer life in the house, and have since realised that Jasmine has a very strong and very lovely smell that fills the whole room. I can't get enough of it!</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm hoping a few more branches decide to grow in the direction of the dustbin so that I have an excuse to do a bit more pruning...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our little rescue plant is doing so well! Unlike the Nasturtium you can see in the background, who have been decimated by caterpillars... I've since had to get rid of all the dead stalks and replace them with something else. Pictures soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the continued story of how we visited East Yorkshire and a vintage fair (first part <a href="http://bunniesandstripes.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/scampston-vintage-weekend-part-1.html" target="_blank">here</a>). So, if you remember from my previous post, we had a lovely (if chilly and damp) picnic the night before the vintage fair and rose bright and early the next morning to make the most of the sunny day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We got to Scampston a bit early, so we had a little wander about the tiny village. It was like something straight out of a film with the beautiful old brick houses and vintage cars whizzing past on their way to the show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> And going for walks in the fields around the village...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Isn't it just like a film set? I'm always amazed at how quaint the UK is in places. Like time has completely stood still. I'm pretty sure the house prices haven't though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway, on to some proper vintage fun! We were greeted by this lovely sight as we arrived at the fair:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Actually, if I'm absolutely honest, we were greeted by this sight. I guess you might as well find out where the toilet is as soon as you arrive, yes? Also, please note the neat queue which has formed spontaneously, the reasonable distance from the toilets, the personal space between each person. As a former inhabitant of suburban Paris, it thrills me to see such respectful and disciplined queueing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were a lot more cars than I had expected and their owners stood proudly next to them, ready to answer any questions we may have and launch into a full-on history of their baby. Sadly, Boyfriend and I aren't really into cars, so although I think they're much prettier than the one we own, I don't have anything interesting to say about them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now this one is different (apparently!): it's from a TV show or something. There were lots of people crowded around it and posing and Boyfriend got all excited and snapped these pictures of it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So that was the celebrity car at Scampston does vintage! I liked this pram much better though, and I liked it even more when I realised it had a real baby in it!</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Not a vintage one! A young baby one! Anyway... some things are only funny to me, moving on swiftly!</span></div>
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T<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">here was a dance workshop but I think people were a bit too intimidated (or maybe just to sweaty under the arms, it was turning out to be a proper scorcher!) to take part. These two were extremely good though, and a lot of fun to watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were a scattering of stalls and 3 or 4 big tents around the grounds. The old VW in this pic had been turned into a photobooth, with lots of accessories and fun backdrops to choose from. I just wanted to sit on a bale of straw and sip cocktails at that point, but that would have made me a very good contendent for the vintage sunburn and heat stroke trophies...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were a couple of different bands playing again and it was all very festive and sweet and Bully Holly-esque. I don't think I saw a single grumpy face all day. Proof that they don't write'em like they used to...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We did a bit of exploring and discovered a lovely lake and park. I didn't dare do anything to these pics because the greens and blues were already sooo intense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So like I said, there were a couple of individual stalls with people selling things, but the main selling took place under big markees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So did the tea drinking and home made cake eating!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Although there was a serious selection of lovely things, I didn't take anything home with me... sad face. Sometimes you have to know when your house is full enough, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thanks again to <a href="http://www.angelinthenorth.com/" target="_blank">Anna</a> for the tickets and the opportunity for a refreshing weekend getaway! I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for the next Britain does vintage events!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A few weekends ago (more than I care to mention because it would make me a bad blogger, but I'm happy to say I've almost finished sorting through and editing my most recents pics and there are a handful of posts coming right your way!), I won someting. Something really great! Tickets to the <a href="http://www.scampston.co.uk/DB/events/scampston-does-vintage-3.html" target="_blank">Scampston does vintage weekend</a>! All thanks to a lovely fellow blogger, <a href="http://www.angelinthenorth.com/" target="_blank">angel in the north</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Since Scampston is a fair drive from us and our tickets included the Saturday evening open air picnic prom and all day entrance on Sunday for the actual fair, we decided to make a weekend of it and book a B&B in the area. We could have camped on the grounds at Scampston but I was (very rightly!) worried about the weather. I'm a happy camper as long as I can stay dry, but memories of being caught in the remnants of a huge storm in the sand dunes of Connemara, holding on to the tent for most of the night for fear it would be torn to shreds (while Boyfriend slept like a baby next to me) have left me scarred for life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because It was only a short drive from Scampston to the coast, we decided to leave early on Saturday morning and do a bit of exploring around Scarborough (like Blackpool only smaller, from what we saw out of the car window, but I hear there are some much nicer parts away from the beach), Robin Hood's bay (lovely but packed with people and pouring with rain) and Whitby (expensive parking which cut our stay short, and once more, lots of rain). The picture above is of Robin Hood's bay and it's the only one I took during the day, just before it started bucketing it down. We'll have to come back to this area sometime as I'm sure it's lovely in sunny weather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So anyhoo, after checking in to our B&B and drying off a bit, we headed over to Scampston for the evening picnic of vintage goodness. <span style="color: #0000ee;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Had we known that the cocktails would be £7, we would have also brought our own. Oh well, they were pretty delicious and it felt so nice to sit in the sunshine with a mojito after spending all day with my hood up and my wellies on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The picnic was set out in a huge field with food stalls on one end...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It had only just stopped pouring with rain when the picnic started, so the ground was pretty wet. Luckily, the people from <a href="http://www.britaindoesvintage.co.uk/" target="_blank">Britain does vintage</a> provided lots of sun loungers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When the mist started rising, Boyfriend went on a photo expedition through the grounds (I was too tired and getting rather cold to be honest)</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Next time, on Bunnies and Stripes: part 2 of our vintage adventure, with twice as many pics and lots of vintage treasures!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well it looks like I've been doing a lot of living and not much blogging lately. To be accurate, I've been doing a hell of a lot of translating and not much else. Oh and some laptop updating which means I haven't got everything set up to resize/crop my pics just yet, hence the long silence. Lots of posts lined up though, I just have to get myself organised (read: find a way of fitting more hours into the day). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He're is another little greenery update and a random sofa happening. What do you think? Yay or nay?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just need to perfect my tucking-in skills.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You're allowed to say nay, I won't be offended. I'm still on the fence myself, but I thought a bit of colour might make the living room feel more summery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think the nasturtium are plotting to take over the world. It's crazy out there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We've gone from 3 leaves to 16 in er...well only a few weeks. It's got some really lovely gold sparkly bits on its leaves, and some blue and some pink tones. Oh, and they're not pictured here but I rescued two more plants! They're getting their own post soon, and I think all this is the perfect excuse to buy some pretty plant pots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And last but not least, one of my favourite flowers (freesias) from one of my favourite cats (Bob) as a thank you for looking after him for a couple of days </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**cue collective "aaaawww" from all cat-lovers on the interwebs**</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well I survived the annual allergy season without cracking ribs or wheezing my way through any sleepless nights! Last year's scary cough made a short appearance but I chased it away with lots of rest and natural remedies. Yay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were a few days of serious pollen storms though, so while I stayed in with the windows shut Boyfriend ventured outside and snapped some pics: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People always tell us our neighbourhood is really old-fashioned (I think the houses were built about a hundred years ago at the same time as the mill that's down the road) with the washing lines hanging between the houses, the cats, the random bikes... I can't wait for Summer to start properly so we can spend some time on the terrace again! (At the moment we're averaging 2 days of sun followed by 7 days of rain so I've decided it's not worth getting the garden furniture out)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have started growing some Summer flowers though: Nasturtium, my go-to fail-safe can't-kill favourite! Love in the mist is slowly coming up in a pot on the terrace, and one of our friendly neighbours has given us two Pride of London plants from her parent's garden in Norfolk! So cosmopolitan. Pics coming soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And last but not least on the greenery update: this is my latest rescue plant, which I found in Kent. The poor thing had been dumped in a skip along with the contents of what looked like a very dated house in the middle of a renovation. Why the owner would want to dump such a beautiful living plant is beyond me, so I took a cutting, left it in water until it grew roots, and ta-da! Here it is in its new home. I couldn't save all of it, but at least now it can start a new plant life where nobody will throw it away!</span></div>
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Carrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720430331869930774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095986082855214481.post-14619662834634111462014-05-24T09:03:00.000-07:002014-05-24T09:03:02.632-07:00A holiday in Haworth<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A couple of weeks ago we were feeling l̶a̶z̶y̶ adventurous so we decided to take the day off in the middle of the week and venture out for lunch. Yep, we're crazy freelancers and we love it. To be honest the weather was so good it felt like a waste sitting at home staring at a screen (not such a waste right now as it's bucketing it down...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can't really remember why we chose Haworth, it just seemed like a good idea at the time. Sadly the 2 or 3 places I'd been looking forward to trying were closed, but that didn't prevent us from stuffing our faces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Started off with a milkshake, followed by a HUGE plate of nachos, followed by a healthy salad to restore the nutritional balance of my day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It did get a bit chilly sitting outside on the sun-less terrace so we crept back inside for coffee by the window, where we made a new friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He really really really wanted to come inside and kept jumping up on the seats and giving us pleading looks. At one point he got all tangled up in his lead and just as I was about to tell his owners a lady came up from nowhere and sorted him out. Ah, the kind people of Yorkshire!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Boyfriend bought himself a new toy in one of the shops: a kite! I was a bit skeptical at first but now that he's had hours and hours of fun with it over the last few days I can only agree it was a great idea (pics of all the fun coming soon!). We went and looked for a good place to do some kite-flying but had to turn back after a while because I was wearing highly inappropriate platform shoes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We managed to spot a bit of wildlife on our short walk though! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the Brontë family house, which is quite interesting on the inside and worth a visit if you're a fan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the Brontë family cat. Well, judging by it's age it probably could have been. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So that was the first half of our magical day off, stay tuned for some serious kite-flying coming up next!</span></div>
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