I have self-banned myself
14.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@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.
I have self-banned myself
14.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My fault for making poor life choices.
I don’t need a house this big for two people
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
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
Oh, nasty.
Teenagers are too young to discover mortality
Practitioner in charge of the rodent clinic
14.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don’t we all?
14.02.2026 11:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh, gosh
I hope all ok
Was he a shopper or is it a job there, not that it matters against what happened
Looks a little stern to me
Can I have an appointment?
Meaugh, hiss
That’s not underwear for female comedians is it
14.02.2026 08:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That could have been me … if I wasn’t spoke for
Also poor and no longer have a lab
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
Never let a French person hear you say haricot vert are disappointing
13.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I suspect that my banking advisor has been replaced by a chat bot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
French fancies
Belgian buns
French fries
Couque suisse
Non existent foods in their nations
You have a conscience and therefore wake up early (and cats too).
I have no conscience and therefore wake late
Boxed by Mr Kipling and covered with gooey icing.
I hope not.
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
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
Vicariously, I love the view from your room
13.02.2026 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Down your way @franglaise.bsky.social ?
13.02.2026 11:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But if it is recently installed the installer’s décennal might cover it
13.02.2026 09:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Back 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 📌 0When 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?
Stop being able to afford MSFT software licenses ?
12.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You made them from Smash instant mash potato?
Different 😂😂😂
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
Nearby Montmorillon
Flood sirens sounded this morning, but river only 2.5 metres higher than normal
I thought about it.
However I had my SiL in tow on possibly her final European visit
Next time, definitely
I only crossed that bridge 3 weeks ago
12.02.2026 15:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0