Sonia T 🇺🇦

Not enough task force staff per stolen bike ratio, I'd say. Not to brag, mine was never stolen, because it was a sort of French penny-farthing with wheels that were unknown, dimension-wise. 😂 I thank the French expat who sold me this Decathlon monstrosity! Bargain! ♥️

So. You've all heard about the little bit of a pickle we're in. 😅

YouTube video by Ville d'Angers Rosemary Standley & Dom la Nena au cloître du musée Jean-Lurçat à Angers

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I only get the 78% French, 20%Catalan and 2% Portuguese. Everything else is at 0%. It's somewhat anticlimactic. Here I was hoping to get some more diverse dna. 😅 The worst would have been the one line '100% French', where I would have been in a 'tell me something I don't know' kind of mood.

23andMe update is in! That's more like it. 🤣👍 The 18%+ Anglo-Irish component has completely disappeared. 😁 The French origin is back on at 78% (in lieu of the previous 16ish%). At least, with the 50% Portugo-Spanish gone down to 22ish%, I can stop fantasizing about some Iberic estranged father. 😅

Managed to place some Wendy Cope in one of my English lessons today. 😁

Tomorrow is another strike day in France. Expect disruptions with public transport.

Rapture was supposed to happen on Tuesday and it didn't happen? Aww. I recall the number of times Paco Rabanne said the world was ending at specific dates, same for the New Age doomsday ntters from Bugarach, it's about every week. Tuesday was probably a slow day.

Friends kept asking me if, in hindsight, I would have preferred staying/should have stayed in the U.K. I said that, had I stayed, Brexit would probably have forced me out anyway. 😢

'Fuck back to Azkaban!' was a great line. 👍

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm pretty sure Gandalf never sported a six pack. 😂

Excellent. 🤣

Cat lying on a bed.

Rainy day, lazy cat
Dog snoring and radio on
Sorting watercolours
and a lesson.
Time is subjective -
On Mondays, doubly so.

Murder She Wrote

Today is another 'social disruptions' day. Expect the occasional public transportation mayhem etc, as usual.

YouTube video by FeuChatterton Le Labyrinthe - Bienvenue à bord 🛳️

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Latest news: I managed to sell all the hard copies of the local independent newspaper ("Libres Commères') with a record profit, to the point that tomorrow's special edition will be free for everyone. 😊👍

@librescommeres.fr

Managed to drop a word or two to the local press on this busy day (French social disruptions). 🙂

RiP, Rick Davies.

For my cyclist friends in Oxford.

Doesn't bode well for the government, or Macron. Wednesday's 'social disruption' is going to be interesting.

YouTube video by Rickie Lee Jones - Topic Chuck E's in Love

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When Harry met Sal

My local 'independent satirical newspaper' is reminding everyone how to meet up for the big day (10th Sept). 🙂

Sweet! 😁

Wow. 😳

We had Australian animal shows like Flipper the dolphin or Skippy the Kangaroo. Felt like it was the one time we had access to exotic animals (from an Aveyron 'middle of nowhere' countryside point of view). And we had only the one channel and the one radio getting through as well.

Catch me if you can

>>after checking (as my memory was patchy), his sibling was the one being charged. But family pressure meant that they tried to settle out of court but they didn't manage to conciliate. Case was finally dismissed.