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Peter Scott

@dwpete.bsky.social

Former herder of information and global fixer of broken stuff Living legally in France with my kiwi wife. Don’t call me an expat, I’m a Brexit refugee. Nuclear chemist, copy writer, provider of nuts to Secret Squirrels.

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Latest posts by dwpete.bsky.social on Bluesky

I have self-banned myself

14.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My fault for making poor life choices.

I don’t need a house this big for two people

14.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2 months of usage. 250sm of stone built farmhouse

Upstairs it’s reversible heat pumps, downstairs wood or pellet stoves. However we had to heat the west wing (electric radiators) when SiL visited from the antipodes

14.02.2026 13:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I live in one of those weird departments where there is no EDF, just one supplier, the department
Just staring at my almost 600€ bill

14.02.2026 13:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Oh, nasty.
Teenagers are too young to discover mortality

14.02.2026 11:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Practitioner in charge of the rodent clinic

14.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t we all?

14.02.2026 11:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh, gosh
I hope all ok
Was he a shopper or is it a job there, not that it matters against what happened

14.02.2026 11:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looks a little stern to me

Can I have an appointment?

Meaugh, hiss

14.02.2026 09:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That’s not underwear for female comedians is it

14.02.2026 08:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That could have been me … if I wasn’t spoke for

Also poor and no longer have a lab

13.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My surrogate Canadian sister always gets in a romantic mood at this time of the year

For the love of the right person she’d give up vegetarianism and hold a candle for them

13.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Never let a French person hear you say haricot vert are disappointing

13.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I suspect that my banking advisor has been replaced by a chat bot

I ask for information on alternatives and their costs. He sends a loan application form with no context

13.02.2026 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

French fancies
Belgian buns
French fries
Couque suisse

Non existent foods in their nations

13.02.2026 16:55 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You have a conscience and therefore wake up early (and cats too).

I have no conscience and therefore wake late

13.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Boxed by Mr Kipling and covered with gooey icing.

I hope not.

13.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Photos??
Pic of hot water
Pic of warm radiator
Pic of new boiler
Pic of broken teenager
Pic of remnants of old system
Picture of the wind

The world craves to know

13.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like Liam Neeson, I « have are a very particular set of skills »

Most DIY isn’t among them, and as I want to be part of the community I use French artisans

* this man broke a hammer papering the ceiling

13.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Vicariously, I love the view from your room

13.02.2026 12:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Down your way @franglaise.bsky.social ?

13.02.2026 11:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But if it is recently installed the installer’s décennal might cover it

13.02.2026 09:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Back in the 80’s the woman I shared an office with confused the coal fields of the Ruhr with the cabbage fields of Ruhr

12.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When I was much younger I went past the dentelle museum in Calais and I thought, cool they have a false teeth museum

What’s your early mistranslation?

12.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Stop being able to afford MSFT software licenses ?

12.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You made them from Smash instant mash potato?

Different 😂😂😂

12.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Quick visit to nearby communes on La Gartempe.
Friends were flooded out two years ago, now water is at least one metre lower than their house

12.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nearby Montmorillon
Flood sirens sounded this morning, but river only 2.5 metres higher than normal

12.02.2026 17:12 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I thought about it.
However I had my SiL in tow on possibly her final European visit

Next time, definitely

12.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I only crossed that bridge 3 weeks ago

12.02.2026 15:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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