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16 mars 2015

Lille again.

As Nanny and Papi know from a rather frantic Facetime chat some time last week, I've been in Lille for the last week and a half, looking for a flat. It wasn't supposed to go that way. Originally, H and I had planned to spend the school holidays together...

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Tags: flat, house, money, euro, thousand, lille, bank, estate agent

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18 mars 2013

Moving House

When P and I came to Mayotte on August 15th 2011, we had only known for a short while that we - I, at any rate - would be moving at all. I remember searching the Internet for possible flats or flat shares, hunting all around the area of the island my...

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Tags: mayotte, flat, sun, philip, cupboard, move, clean, shelves, shutters, tired

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15 mars 2012

Stuck in the Mud

Stuck in the Mud

There has been so much rain lately that it has severely damaged the road leading down from our flat. Great holes, some up to 50cm in depth, have appeared in the road... which has already blocked more than one car from going up. We had a collection day...

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Tags: flat, water, car, rain, road, season, driving, mud

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12 février 2012

Madame, la pluie, elle tombe!

Madame, la pluie, elle tombe!

Talk about keeping things for a rainy day. There are so many rainy days here – and so much rain – that I don’t know what to do with most of them. Some do, though. There’s construction work outside at the moment – just underneath our flat, actually – where...

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Tags: mayotte, flat, water, rain, philip, crepi, curtain, rainbow, table, television, wall

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26 septembre 2011

Birds and Beasts

Birds and Beasts

The first animals we saw upon getting out of the plane were zebus. Cow-like four-legged creatures with a bump on the back of their neck where they store water and fat for later. They stared at us, we stared at them and wondered where on earth we had ended...

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Tags: island, mayotte, flat, banana, bat, gecko, hotel, margouillat, roussette, zebu

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13 août 2011

Everything Must Go

Everything Must Go

Preparing to leave for a long time in a foreign country is easier than I thought it would be, actually. That’s before you get there and realise you’ve forgotten your driving license, clean socks and cats, who should be wailing their way round Paris airport...

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Tags: mayotte, box, cat, deadline, flat, furniture, house, stuff

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