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taffee

gros bissou's from france

About Me

Escapee artist from the uk who relocated in france several years ago, living deep in the countryside and rubbing shoulders with winegrowers, chasseurs and lots of expats. Devote most of my time to painting writing gardening and walking dogs, and even more to sampling red wine and identifying whats served up in the name of food. Do I miss England? sometimes, but there's always someone going to and fro who can replenish my reserve of baked beans and popadums. The hardest thing is not seeing my daughter as much as I'd like and getting to grips with the language, mais j'arrive.

My Interests

painting writing poetry gardening walking topical science and music

I'd like to meet:

yuri gigarin, michael angelo and einstein

Music:

folk rock jazz gospel classical and anything that gets my feet tapping

Movies:

middle of the road, legend, close encounters, matrix, last of the mohecans, capt correlies mandolin... nothing too sloppy and nothing too gorry or scary

Television:

don't watch much, star trek, david attenborough documentaries, sky at night, eastenders.....

Books:

mostly reference, last novel I read was the anylyst by kowlinski?

Heroes:

my partner and captain jean luc picard

My Blog

baffling bits!

if anyone can tell me how to get rid of all the odd bits that have arrived in my blogs I shall be really grateful as they're driving me nuts!
Posted by taffee on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:32:00 PST

kissy kissy bonjour

I'm beginning to enjoy some of the French customs now, but still find the kissy kissy thing a bit of an ordeal when there's a roomful; I agree it's a wonderful way of breaking down barriers and expres...
Posted by taffee on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:27:00 PST

do you know a man that can?

&we've had quite a few experiences now with French workmen, and I have to say that like those back in the ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />UK reliable ones...
Posted by taffee on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:25:00 PST

french notaires

Being new to this blog game I was at first a bit in the dark as to what to write, but having scanned a few of my new found friend's blogs, it seems anything goes!  So I thought I might just put a...
Posted by taffee on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:16:00 PST