worn out
- Posted on May 24, 2013
- in Art, Daily Life, Education
- by amy
In an unlikely turn of events, my ironing board cover has worn out… talk about things I never expected to say. My freshly ironed clothes have criss-crosses in places, but they’re crinkle free, and I’m all up to date on ‘Once Upon a Time’. If I have to iron I [...]
Continue reading...slow start
- Posted on May 21, 2013
- in Art, Daily Life
- by amy
Monday was another May holiday, here in grey France. Spring is being particularly dumb actually. Summer is just a couple of weeks away but it must be hiding around a corner. The weekend was ideal for… board games. So Luuk and I spent quite a lot of it battling over [...]
Continue reading...catching up
- Posted on May 18, 2013
- in Art, Daily Life
- by amy
I’m a bit behind, a bit flustered and not quite together. We were away, then had visitors, then away again, then had another visitor. On Monday said visitor biked into Paris for the day and left before I did (to take Louis to halte garderie) so I thought it might be something [...]
Continue reading...the arts and the archaic
- Posted on May 14, 2013
- in Seeing the World
- by amy
The theme for our Wednesday in London was most definitely the theatre. First thing, we headed to the Globe and took a tour of the theatre (a replica, which isn’t overly old, in fact) where a group of actors were rehearsing for that afternoon’s performance of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’. The [...]
Continue reading...a london tan
- Posted on May 13, 2013
- in Seeing the World
- by amy
Monday in London was a bank holiday so we took the opportunity to spend the day with Michelle and Adam (who would’ve otherwise been working). On their recommendation we spent the day at Greenwich. Louis and Elena on the Thames Ferry. Nice view from the boat. The Old Naval College, which I’m [...]
Continue reading...J’arrive!
- Posted on May 10, 2013
- in Seeing the World
- by amy
J’arrive is, strangely, what people say when they’re leaving (coming to meet you, like ‘I’m there’ when they will be soon but aren’t yet) and what they say when they are in fact arriving. And that’s all the French I’ll be using in this blog post because it’s about our trip to [...]
Continue reading...May Daze
- Posted on May 6, 2013
- in Daily Life, Seeing the World
- by amy
May in France is all jours fériés – May Day, VE Day,, ascension… Which all fall mid-week this year. But add a day of leave and we have mini-break material. And so after a week at home since our ANZAC trip to the Somme and côte de channel we have [...]
Continue reading...the rest of the holiday
- Posted on April 30, 2013
- in Seeing the World
- by amy
We were pretty shattered after ANZAC day and none of us were at our best (ie. bit grumpy) but the remainder of our holiday was very much make-it-up-as-you-go. We had booked a hotel for Friday and Saturday night out on the coast so on Friday we meandered our way there, [...]
Continue reading...ANZAC day in France
- Posted on April 29, 2013
- in Seeing the World
- by amy
We’ve been away, and for some of that time I had a dead phone battery and the handy dandy cable to hook the camera up to the computer… which is a fat lot of good for charging my phone. Hence the radio silence. But this is what we’ve been up [...]
Continue reading...pull yourself together
- Posted on April 22, 2013
- in Art, Daily Life
- by amy
Saturday was a little, how do you say, incroyable. Ridiculous. Pay the damn transport company staff a decent wage already so that we can have the trains run as usual – on time and with enough space to breath. We didn’t know the strikes were happening until we’d already gone through the [...]
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Me and my family.
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+Amy Paulussen
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I'm a writer, mum, and foodie.
I live in France for now because of my husband's job, but we're from New Zealand - even if our passports disagree.
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I'm a writer, mum, and foodie.
I live in France for now because of my husband's job, but we're from New Zealand - even if our passports disagree.