Mother's guilt

Summing up how I feel today.... This morning I felt an immense guilt. After a sleepless night for me and my 3 years old sick son, I thought I was the worst mother in the world. You see, my eldest had chicken pox a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't that bad but the childminder couldn't take him...

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My mother's crêpes recipe

Happy Pancake Tuesday everyone! Today I've decided to share my mother's special crêpes recipe. My mum used to bake crêpes for us every Saturday and still does when we go over on holidays. She usually makes sweet ones, but when we have guests, she also makes savoury crêpes, using buckwheat flour....

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Driving in Ireland

The back of my car...Not the one from the story...   I could tell many stories about my driving experience in Ireland. I was stopped by the Gards a few times,  I had to drive in first gear from Gorey to Rosslare when my clutch broke on the day I was due to sail to France, and I have stopped...

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Stupid questions French expats ask...

***WARNING***  This post is going to be ranty and sarcastic. If you're not in the mood, or can be easily offended, just don't read and come back in a few days for more positive writing :-) Are you still with me? Good. Nothing irritates me more than stupid expats. Fair enough, we don't all have the same definition of stupid, but when I read stuff some of them write online, sometimes I wonder...

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Vote for me!

I'm doing things in the wrong order as I've already put that up on my Facebook page and twitter, but in case you're just passing by, here it is again: I've been nominated for the 2nd year in a row in the "Top 100 International Exchange and Experience Blogs” competition IX15. Every year, bab.la...

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Book review - That's Paris: An anthology of life, love and sarcasm in the city of light

As you might know, I'm not a big fan of Paris. Breton people usually have that sort of love-hate relationship with the capital. We all agree it's a beautiful city to visit, with wonderful sites, museums, churches and landscapes, but we would never live there (unless absolutely necessary of course)....

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Help!

I haven't written for a week and it's driving me crazy. I have lots of ideas though, I just can't seem to put them together for some reason...Actually I think I know what's going on, and I need to find a solution. I used to have some sort of writing routine. I was thinking about my posts while...

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