Subset was nice this evening in France. View from the apartment window with filtered version for s&g.
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18 May 2013
On a train from Paris to Marne le Vallee
I am sat here wondering how, aside from using it in the title of this piece, I can work in the line from the Tenesse Williams play:
“I have always relied on the kindness of strangers.”
I guess I just did.
I am in Paris, home to the maligned Parisians, who some would have you believe are the most arrogant citizens in Europe. Some of those who hold that belief are British so the hypocrisy is thoroughly on display as I think we English hold records in the stuff.
I don’t hold that belief about Parisians or the French in general. Aside from knowing many nice French people I have also stayed in Paris more than once and find them easily as polite, if not more so, than Londoners.
So I guess I shouldn’t visit London for a while.
Today was a typical example. We have two small children and are hopping buses in Paris. We have had people help us onto the buses with the pram. Hold open doors. And the one moment than strikes the best, sat waiting at a bus stop and a gentleman gave Ben and Elliott a banana to share.
I don’t rely on the kindness of strangers. I usually plan ahead. But I do so like it when I experience it.
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This unusual image is the coliuration and imprint on my arm caused by my youngest son sleeping on it in the same position for two hours.
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Holy duck look at the size of the crack in the windscreen of the taxi I am in.
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This worries me, who is selling babies and who is buying them? Also the website suggest you can recycle up to four of your children. We should stop this trafficking of babies. I bet Madonna will be there.
We went to the food fair at Lancaster Leisure Park on Sunday 5th May. One of the stalls I sought out I had read about on the website and needed to investigate. It was Thai Pies.
Thai food in a pie!
How awesome does that sound?
Obviously we bought some, frozen for cooking at home later, and I had a fresh red curry pie which was very tasty. Good pastry as well, the mark of a great pie.
I love how Leigh looks when she sleeps, so peaceful and beautiful.
(She will however kill me for putting photos of her sleeping on the internet again.)
Since I passed my test last year in October, and gained my Blue Car in November, I have racked up a modest ten thousand miles driving.
I have now started to learn the nuances of the car and if I leave in good time am able use soft acceleration and gentle braking to help preserve fuel economy. It helps to avoid the motorway as well. My best averages have been 56 mpg on a 40 mile trip and 60 mpg on a 12 mile trip. Both done in light traffic.
Since I passed my test last year in October, and gained my Blue Car in November, I have racked up a modest ten thousand miles driving.
I have now started to learn the nuances of the car and if I leave in good time am able use soft acceleration and gentle braking to help preserve fuel economy. It helps to avoid the motorway as well. My best averages have been 56 mpg on a 40 mile trip and 60 mpg on a 12 mile trip. Both done in light traffic.
My mother decided to prove my hair was once ginger (Strawberry Blonde) with a photo if me aged eleven. What she never told me was that I was also an alien.
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