Former herder of information and global fixer of broken stuff
Living legally in France with my kiwi wife. Don’t call me an expat, I’m a Brexit refugee.

Nuclear chemist, copy writer, provider of nuts to Secret Squirrels.

A small pinned biography - more will be threaded as my muse dictates.

1) here's me as a toddler standing on the steps of my childhood home.

Well actually a college building where my parents lived and worked. It was a different kind of childhood being raised on campus
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Merlin app tells me I have a daytime nightingale and a hoopoe somewhere in the garden

I do hope I hear the nightingales tonight
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Wisteria doing wisteria stuff
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Motivation level for towing a trailer load of rotted pergola wood to the déchet

About -5.
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The lily of the valley are flowering in the garden

I don’t think they will be May Day gifts this year (a French thing)
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Apropos not a lot

There was the time that I was top hit on Google for Lilac Suit

Which just goes to show the fallibility of search engines
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Bof ??????
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A bit bof garden colour
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I’m channeling frenchness

OH is colonial
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You ok @victoriameldrew.bsky.social ?

eMates still here if you are in need
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On way home from a coif

Seemingly the car thermometer say 36°c in the supermarket car park
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The wisteria didn’t get the memo about not climbing conifers
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Currently

Doing nothing
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The seasonally appropriate Judas Tree in Angles-sur-l’Anglin
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The doll was still for sale. Some people don’t know quality stuff
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185kg cat at the vide-grenier
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Somewhat noisy amphibians
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Intermarché had lamb legs

It seems a Kiwi dinner on Monday
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In the words of Mark Knopfler

« Hey, la, my lawn mower’s back »
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Mum had swapped the bathroom light with a photo studio lighting rig.
So Mr bleary-eye is dazzled by an array of photofloods

She was amused
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I have an annual fear of bathrooms. It comes from student days when April 1 was in the Easter vacation. I go out for drinks with old school chums on the 31 March and come home early morning, merry
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Visiting dog feeling chilled
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Rounded off with GrandFrais and MaxiZoo
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All done in about 20 minutes

Now the 2 or 3 months wait
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At the prefecture to update our residence cards
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How did lunch with my Argentinean exGF turn into 2 nights of camping car installed in my parking area and a trip to Urgence at the local hospital to get her head stitched after she head butted a deer?
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Visiting dog getting on with Saffy

They are both sleeping
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Monsieur Tigrou was a tail bearing member of the raccoon club
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Solomon’s seal doing its thing in our garden
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