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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, if we ever needed to try and find where our hot water pipes ran we wouldn&#8217;t have to buy an expensive gadget&#8230; We could just watch Cindy and find out that way instead! Being a cat, she always finds somewhere warm and comfortable to sleep&#8230; Usually somewhere where we have to step over [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, if we ever needed to try and find where our hot water pipes ran we wouldn&#8217;t have to buy an expensive gadget&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">We could just watch Cindy and find out that way instead!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Being a cat, she always finds somewhere warm and comfortable to sleep&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Usually somewhere where we have to step over her!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">All the best</p>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next time round, I&#8217;m coming back as a cat! Fed, watered and tickled! I think Sam (the fat cat &#8211; he reckons he&#8217;s built more for comfort than speed) does OK! And he gets to lie on the Girlie&#8217;s knees whilst she&#8217;s reading! Heaven! Yes, I&#8217;m coming back as a cat, next time round! All [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Next time round, I&#8217;m coming back as a cat!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Fed, watered and tickled!  I think Sam (the fat cat &#8211; he reckons he&#8217;s built more for comfort than speed) does OK!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And he gets to lie on the Girlie&#8217;s knees whilst she&#8217;s reading!  Heaven!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, I&#8217;m coming back as a cat, next time round!</p>
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		<title>Cindy&#8217;s Turn!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Fat Sam showed he could catch (and massacre) a mousie and Cindy had to prove that she was still the boss! We heard her making her &#8220;I&#8217;m playing with a mousie&#8221; noises&#8230; And I went downstairs to investigate&#8230; Warning, scenes of extreme death and destruction follow&#8230;.. // // Please click on the photos to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/cindys-turn-00.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2920" title="Cindys Turn! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/cindys-turn-00.jpg" alt="cats Cindys Turn!   Life in Brittany, France" width="660" height="495" /></a>So, Fat Sam showed he could catch (and massacre) a mousie and Cindy had to prove that she was still the boss!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We heard her making her <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m playing with a mousie&#8221;</em> noises&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And I went downstairs to investigate&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Warning, scenes of extreme death and destruction follow&#8230;..</strong></p>
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Told in the inimitable style which has alrea dy won the author an army of followers, Rene &amp; Me is a somet imes hilarious, sometimes moving and always captivating celebration of human nature, people and, above all, life and living.&#8217;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This very funny book sounds a lot more like the France that I know. Read it and you&#8217;ll still want to come here, you&#8217;ll just be a lot better prepared for the surprises that France has to offer.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Also in the car is Paul&#8217;s French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend, Jake, whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss&#8217; mistress?<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>In this book, you&#8217;ll get Paul, Elodie, her dad and some new French girls. All of them are of course hot and all of them adore Paul. Didn&#8217;t see that one coming&#8230;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>The only book you&#8217;ll need to understand what the French really think, how to get on with them and, and most importantly, how to get the best out of them.  With useful sections on: Making sure you get served in a café, Harassing French estate agents, Living with bacteria, Pronouncing French swear-words and much more!<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? No! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? No! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.<br />
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This is television actress Carol Drinkwater&#8217;s lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a &#8220;new&#8221; French family and understanding slowly the workings and lifestyle of a vivacious Provencal community.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This is an extraordinary and fascinating follow-up to The Olive Farm. The reader is drawn deeply and inexorably in to the world of the author, confronted with her personal struggles and entranced by her pastiche of growth and decay in the world of nature, a metaphor for her life.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Carol and Michel have again returned to Appasionata, the Olive Farm that they have restored, and Carol is eager to continue production of the olives and attain their cerificate for producing Organic Oil.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater&#8217;s colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that is evocative and perennial, it is above all a tale of our time.<br />
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A tour de force from Carol Drinkwater in this, the fourth in her Olive series. The joy of this book is in the pen pictures that she creates of the unusual characters that she encounters on her journey.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>The photgraphy is wonderful and the book is a great insight in to life with the olives and all that that involves. There are wonderful pictures of the dogs, family, friends, even the dreaded wild boar. Recipes as well.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Petite Anglaise is a memoir by Catherine Sanderson based on her blog of the same name. In 2004 Catherine decided to start up a blog based on her life in Paris.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Name: Sally Marshall Status: single mother Age: 32 Nationality: ten years in France, yet still English through and through I like: Living in Paris, playing with my daughter Lila (four years old), the company of good friends, the smell of baking bread. <a title="Please click here for more information about this book." href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141031247/keitheckcom-21">More information</a></small></p>
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You cannot help but fall in love with the author&#8217;s character. She seems like a Bridget Jones let loose in the French countryside, getting into a lot of funny situations with both ex-pat English and French locals like, as she adjusts to a totally different way of life.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>John Dummer&#8217;s sharply focused descriptions of the landscape, towns and villages, and the weather of the South West of France form a animated background for a series of adventures with an array of characters from some intimidating and belligerent peasants to a sad little old man whose only companionship is a collection of antique dolls.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This book is an excellent source of words and expressions, of varying degrees of vulgarity, that are used all the time by french speakers. I used it often during the first of my two years in France.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>&#8220;Almost French&#8221; is the story of a woman who goes to France to visit a French lawyer she has only met a couple times before and barely knows. Of course, she gets caught up in the romance of the city and stays on to live there.<br />
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		<title>Mousie Alert!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Girlie came downstairs to find that Sammy had left her a little pressie! To say that she was not impressed is an understatement! Sammy has only recently taken up mousing! He&#8217;s really too large. I wouldn&#8217;t call him a big fat cat but he does admit that he&#8217;s built more for comfort than for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/mousie-alert-01-brittany.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2898" title="Mousie Alert! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/mousie-alert-01-brittany.jpg" alt="cats Mousie Alert!   Life in Brittany, France" width="660" height="495" /></a>The Girlie came downstairs to find that Sammy had left her a little pressie!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To say that she was not impressed is an understatement!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sammy has only recently taken up mousing!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">He&#8217;s really too large.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I wouldn&#8217;t call him a big fat cat but he does admit that he&#8217;s <em>built more for comfort than for speed!</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Knows how to massacre a mousie though!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Warning &#8211; Scenes of death and destruction follow&#8230;&#8230;</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>A delightful book in which Joanne shares with us &#8216;her family recipes, passed down through the generations. The French Kitchen is a tantalising collection of casseroles, soups, roasts, salads, tarts and sweets.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Joanna Harris creates a rich and vibrant description of a rural French village with all its petty rivalries and traditional, narrow-minded boundaries on thought and behavior.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Five quarters of the orange&#8217; is a story of a childhood tragedy in wartime France, and the shadows it casts across the later life of the heroine Framboise Dartigen.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Everyday magic, he called it, the transformation of base matter into the stuff of dreams &#8211; Layman&#8217;s alchemy.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Following the success of The French Kitchen, Joanne Harris and Fran Warde have collaborated once more to write a French cookbook with a difference. This time they have taken their inspiration from the rural markets of Gascony.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Passionate, stubborn Mado, whose &#8220;head is full of rocks&#8221; tries to save the livelihoods of the villagers of Les Salants by urging them to work together to save the beach from erosion, both natural and man-made.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Three sublime audiobooks from the bestselling author, now available together in a specially priced pack. Includes BLACKBERRY WINE, FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE and the huge bestseller CHOCOLAT. With a gentle touch and an eye for human frailty and strength, these mouth-watering audiobooks will draw you into her enchanting worlds.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Failed rock legend, pickled onion manufacturer, air hostess and euro-entrepreneur George East takes us through another eventful year of his doomed attempts to make a living out of living in rural France.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>The character of France and the French people has been captured in words beautifully and the hilarious exploits of George his wife Donella, their neighbours and Cato the cat.<br />
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This is not so much a book as a continuation of the serial story of George and Donella as they carry on with their almost idyllic life in Normandy. It&#8217;s at least as funny as the others, but the hanky had to come out again several times.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Once upon a time, former night club bouncer, seamstress and professional bedtester George East and his wife Donella fled to Normandy to escape their creditors and try to live off their wits in a foreign land.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Buying property in France is fraught with mishaps and misunderstandings. George East&#8217;s book brings humour and fun to what happens when people venture forth to a foreign land with more hope than money and humour than language skills.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Those poor people who don’t like George East’s books often dismiss them as fiction. Not so, everything is at least based on real people and real happenings. George admits to a degree of embellishment and often combines several mishaps to produce a spectacular disaster. Such is the nature of his works.<br />
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Told in the inimitable style which has alrea dy won the author an army of followers, Rene &amp; Me is a somet imes hilarious, sometimes moving and always captivating celebration of human nature, people and, above all, life and living.&#8217;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This very funny book sounds a lot more like the France that I know. Read it and you&#8217;ll still want to come here, you&#8217;ll just be a lot better prepared for the surprises that France has to offer.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Also in the car is Paul&#8217;s French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend, Jake, whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss&#8217; mistress?<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>In this book, you&#8217;ll get Paul, Elodie, her dad and some new French girls. All of them are of course hot and all of them adore Paul. Didn&#8217;t see that one coming&#8230;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>The only book you&#8217;ll need to understand what the French really think, how to get on with them and, and most importantly, how to get the best out of them.  With useful sections on: Making sure you get served in a café, Harassing French estate agents, Living with bacteria, Pronouncing French swear-words and much more!<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? No! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? No! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.<br />
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This is television actress Carol Drinkwater&#8217;s lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a &#8220;new&#8221; French family and understanding slowly the workings and lifestyle of a vivacious Provencal community.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This is an extraordinary and fascinating follow-up to The Olive Farm. The reader is drawn deeply and inexorably in to the world of the author, confronted with her personal struggles and entranced by her pastiche of growth and decay in the world of nature, a metaphor for her life.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Carol and Michel have again returned to Appasionata, the Olive Farm that they have restored, and Carol is eager to continue production of the olives and attain their cerificate for producing Organic Oil.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater&#8217;s colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that is evocative and perennial, it is above all a tale of our time.<br />
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A tour de force from Carol Drinkwater in this, the fourth in her Olive series. The joy of this book is in the pen pictures that she creates of the unusual characters that she encounters on her journey.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>The photgraphy is wonderful and the book is a great insight in to life with the olives and all that that involves. There are wonderful pictures of the dogs, family, friends, even the dreaded wild boar. Recipes as well.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Petite Anglaise is a memoir by Catherine Sanderson based on her blog of the same name. In 2004 Catherine decided to start up a blog based on her life in Paris.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Name: Sally Marshall Status: single mother Age: 32 Nationality: ten years in France, yet still English through and through I like: Living in Paris, playing with my daughter Lila (four years old), the company of good friends, the smell of baking bread. <a title="Please click here for more information about this book." href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141031247/keitheckcom-21">More information</a></small></p>
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You cannot help but fall in love with the author&#8217;s character. She seems like a Bridget Jones let loose in the French countryside, getting into a lot of funny situations with both ex-pat English and French locals like, as she adjusts to a totally different way of life.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This book is an excellent source of words and expressions, of varying degrees of vulgarity, that are used all the time by french speakers. I used it often during the first of my two years in France.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>&#8220;Almost French&#8221; is the story of a woman who goes to France to visit a French lawyer she has only met a couple times before and barely knows. Of course, she gets caught up in the romance of the city and stays on to live there.<br />
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		<title>The Chickies &#8211; 04</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose that the thing that has amazed me most about the chickies is the strength and variety of their individual characters. It&#8217;s almost like they don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re not human&#8230;. &#8230;. or perhaps they think that the Girlie and I are just big (and possibly rather stupid) chickies? // // All the best Reddit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2406-small.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1991" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="The Chickies   04 cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2406-small-300x225.jpg" alt="cats The Chickies   04   Life in Brittany, France" width="300" height="225" /></a>I suppose that the thing that has amazed me most about the chickies is the strength and variety of their individual characters.<br />
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<p>It&#8217;s almost like they don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re not human&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8230;. or perhaps they think that the Girlie and I are just big (and possibly rather stupid) chickies?<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>A delightful book in which Joanne shares with us &#8216;her family recipes, passed down through the generations. The French Kitchen is a tantalising collection of casseroles, soups, roasts, salads, tarts and sweets.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Failed rock legend, pickled onion manufacturer, air hostess and euro-entrepreneur George East takes us through another eventful year of his doomed attempts to make a living out of living in rural France.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>The character of France and the French people has been captured in words beautifully and the hilarious exploits of George his wife Donella, their neighbours and Cato the cat.<br />
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This is not so much a book as a continuation of the serial story of George and Donella as they carry on with their almost idyllic life in Normandy. It&#8217;s at least as funny as the others, but the hanky had to come out again several times.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Once upon a time, former night club bouncer, seamstress and professional bedtester George East and his wife Donella fled to Normandy to escape their creditors and try to live off their wits in a foreign land.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Buying property in France is fraught with mishaps and misunderstandings. George East&#8217;s book brings humour and fun to what happens when people venture forth to a foreign land with more hope than money and humour than language skills.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Those poor people who don’t like George East’s books often dismiss them as fiction. Not so, everything is at least based on real people and real happenings. George admits to a degree of embellishment and often combines several mishaps to produce a spectacular disaster. Such is the nature of his works.<br />
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Told in the inimitable style which has alrea dy won the author an army of followers, Rene &amp; Me is a somet imes hilarious, sometimes moving and always captivating celebration of human nature, people and, above all, life and living.&#8217;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This very funny book sounds a lot more like the France that I know. Read it and you&#8217;ll still want to come here, you&#8217;ll just be a lot better prepared for the surprises that France has to offer.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Also in the car is Paul&#8217;s French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend, Jake, whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss&#8217; mistress?<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>In this book, you&#8217;ll get Paul, Elodie, her dad and some new French girls. All of them are of course hot and all of them adore Paul. Didn&#8217;t see that one coming&#8230;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>The only book you&#8217;ll need to understand what the French really think, how to get on with them and, and most importantly, how to get the best out of them.  With useful sections on: Making sure you get served in a café, Harassing French estate agents, Living with bacteria, Pronouncing French swear-words and much more!<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? No! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? No! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.<br />
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This is television actress Carol Drinkwater&#8217;s lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a &#8220;new&#8221; French family and understanding slowly the workings and lifestyle of a vivacious Provencal community.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This is an extraordinary and fascinating follow-up to The Olive Farm. The reader is drawn deeply and inexorably in to the world of the author, confronted with her personal struggles and entranced by her pastiche of growth and decay in the world of nature, a metaphor for her life.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Carol and Michel have again returned to Appasionata, the Olive Farm that they have restored, and Carol is eager to continue production of the olives and attain their cerificate for producing Organic Oil.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater&#8217;s colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that is evocative and perennial, it is above all a tale of our time.<br />
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A tour de force from Carol Drinkwater in this, the fourth in her Olive series. The joy of this book is in the pen pictures that she creates of the unusual characters that she encounters on her journey.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>The photgraphy is wonderful and the book is a great insight in to life with the olives and all that that involves. There are wonderful pictures of the dogs, family, friends, even the dreaded wild boar. Recipes as well.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Petite Anglaise is a memoir by Catherine Sanderson based on her blog of the same name. In 2004 Catherine decided to start up a blog based on her life in Paris.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Name: Sally Marshall Status: single mother Age: 32 Nationality: ten years in France, yet still English through and through I like: Living in Paris, playing with my daughter Lila (four years old), the company of good friends, the smell of baking bread. <a title="Please click here for more information about this book." href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141031247/keitheckcom-21">More information</a></small></p>
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You cannot help but fall in love with the author&#8217;s character. She seems like a Bridget Jones let loose in the French countryside, getting into a lot of funny situations with both ex-pat English and French locals like, as she adjusts to a totally different way of life.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>John Dummer&#8217;s sharply focused descriptions of the landscape, towns and villages, and the weather of the South West of France form a animated background for a series of adventures with an array of characters from some intimidating and belligerent peasants to a sad little old man whose only companionship is a collection of antique dolls.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This book is an excellent source of words and expressions, of varying degrees of vulgarity, that are used all the time by french speakers. I used it often during the first of my two years in France.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>&#8220;Almost French&#8221; is the story of a woman who goes to France to visit a French lawyer she has only met a couple times before and barely knows. Of course, she gets caught up in the romance of the city and stays on to live there.<br />
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll start off by warning you that there are graphic images of death on this post. Please don&#8217;t look unless you are happy seeing images of wholesale slaughter of cheese connoisseurs! The cats (as I have mentioned before) have totally failed to reduce the local mousie population and so I had to step in and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2116.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1515" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="Silence of the Mice! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2116-300x225.jpg" alt="cats Silence of the Mice!   Life in Brittany, France" width="300" height="225" /></a>I&#8217;ll start off by warning you that there are graphic images of death on this post.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Please don&#8217;t look unless you are happy seeing images of wholesale slaughter of cheese connoisseurs!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The cats (as I have mentioned before) have totally failed to reduce the local mousie population and so I had to step in and show them how it was done.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, although it may seem cruel, these mice are (or should that be&#8230; were?) vermin and would eat (and worse, poo all over) our food.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As we are also looking to let out the small cottage for summer lets, we needed to do something about the mousies as holidaymakers don&#8217;t really appreciate these nocturnal visitors!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At least the mousies I killed didn&#8217;t suffer and weren&#8217;t subjected to <em>mousie tennis</em> (it&#8217;s a game the cats play.  A bit like tennis but the game is over when the mousie exlodes!)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Please do not look at the rest of the post if you are the slightest bit squeamish!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You have been warned!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>A delightful book in which Joanne shares with us &#8216;her family recipes, passed down through the generations. The French Kitchen is a tantalising collection of casseroles, soups, roasts, salads, tarts and sweets.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Joanna Harris creates a rich and vibrant description of a rural French village with all its petty rivalries and traditional, narrow-minded boundaries on thought and behavior.<br />
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This is not so much a book as a continuation of the serial story of George and Donella as they carry on with their almost idyllic life in Normandy. It&#8217;s at least as funny as the others, but the hanky had to come out again several times.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Once upon a time, former night club bouncer, seamstress and professional bedtester George East and his wife Donella fled to Normandy to escape their creditors and try to live off their wits in a foreign land.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Those poor people who don’t like George East’s books often dismiss them as fiction. Not so, everything is at least based on real people and real happenings. George admits to a degree of embellishment and often combines several mishaps to produce a spectacular disaster. Such is the nature of his works.<br />
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Told in the inimitable style which has alrea dy won the author an army of followers, Rene &amp; Me is a somet imes hilarious, sometimes moving and always captivating celebration of human nature, people and, above all, life and living.&#8217;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This very funny book sounds a lot more like the France that I know. Read it and you&#8217;ll still want to come here, you&#8217;ll just be a lot better prepared for the surprises that France has to offer.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Also in the car is Paul&#8217;s French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend, Jake, whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss&#8217; mistress?<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>In this book, you&#8217;ll get Paul, Elodie, her dad and some new French girls. All of them are of course hot and all of them adore Paul. Didn&#8217;t see that one coming&#8230;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>The only book you&#8217;ll need to understand what the French really think, how to get on with them and, and most importantly, how to get the best out of them.  With useful sections on: Making sure you get served in a café, Harassing French estate agents, Living with bacteria, Pronouncing French swear-words and much more!<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? No! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? No! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.<br />
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This is television actress Carol Drinkwater&#8217;s lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a &#8220;new&#8221; French family and understanding slowly the workings and lifestyle of a vivacious Provencal community.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This is an extraordinary and fascinating follow-up to The Olive Farm. The reader is drawn deeply and inexorably in to the world of the author, confronted with her personal struggles and entranced by her pastiche of growth and decay in the world of nature, a metaphor for her life.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Carol and Michel have again returned to Appasionata, the Olive Farm that they have restored, and Carol is eager to continue production of the olives and attain their cerificate for producing Organic Oil.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater&#8217;s colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that is evocative and perennial, it is above all a tale of our time.<br />
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A tour de force from Carol Drinkwater in this, the fourth in her Olive series. The joy of this book is in the pen pictures that she creates of the unusual characters that she encounters on her journey.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>The photgraphy is wonderful and the book is a great insight in to life with the olives and all that that involves. There are wonderful pictures of the dogs, family, friends, even the dreaded wild boar. Recipes as well.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Petite Anglaise is a memoir by Catherine Sanderson based on her blog of the same name. In 2004 Catherine decided to start up a blog based on her life in Paris.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>Name: Sally Marshall Status: single mother Age: 32 Nationality: ten years in France, yet still English through and through I like: Living in Paris, playing with my daughter Lila (four years old), the company of good friends, the smell of baking bread. <a title="Please click here for more information about this book." href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141031247/keitheckcom-21">More information</a></small></p>
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You cannot help but fall in love with the author&#8217;s character. She seems like a Bridget Jones let loose in the French countryside, getting into a lot of funny situations with both ex-pat English and French locals like, as she adjusts to a totally different way of life.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>John Dummer&#8217;s sharply focused descriptions of the landscape, towns and villages, and the weather of the South West of France form a animated background for a series of adventures with an array of characters from some intimidating and belligerent peasants to a sad little old man whose only companionship is a collection of antique dolls.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>This book is an excellent source of words and expressions, of varying degrees of vulgarity, that are used all the time by french speakers. I used it often during the first of my two years in France.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 120%;"><small>&#8220;Almost French&#8221; is the story of a woman who goes to France to visit a French lawyer she has only met a couple times before and barely knows. Of course, she gets caught up in the romance of the city and stays on to live there.<br />
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		<title>Mousie Cheese</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 04:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe that I have just spent my own money on some cheese to bait the mousie traps I have bought. Goodness know that I had two decent cats I wouldn&#8217;t need to bother! But, unfortunately, I have two lazy cats! I should say that Sammy (the fat cat who claims that he is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2102.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1484" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="Mousie Cheese cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2102-300x225.jpg" alt="cats Mousie Cheese   Life in Brittany, France" width="300" height="225" /></a>I can&#8217;t believe that I have just spent my own money on some cheese to bait the mousie traps I have bought.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Goodness know that I had two decent cats I wouldn&#8217;t need to bother!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But, unfortunately, I have two lazy cats!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I should say that Sammy (the fat cat who claims that he is <em>built for comfort and not for speed</em>) did manage to catch a mousie the other day but&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8230; he did seem rather surprised that he&#8217;d done so!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I have the horrible feeling that the mousie might just have disturbed Sammy&#8217;s beauty sleep and got accidentally  squashed by ten tonnes of feline fur as Sammy rolled over!</p>
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		<title>Mousies!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have mousies! I know that we&#8217;ve got mousies because, the other night, when I came downstairs, there was one on the cooker&#8230;. &#8230;and it was smiling at me! The Girlie had the same experience when she was showing a prospective buyer around the house. Perhaps our mousies have been watching Fawlty Towers?  Basil the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2090.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1452" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="Mousies! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2090-300x225.jpg" alt="cats Mousies!   Life in Brittany, France" width="300" height="225" /></a>We have mousies!</p>
<p>I know that we&#8217;ve got mousies because, the other night, when I came downstairs, there was one on the cooker&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8230;and it was smiling at me!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Girlie had the same experience when she was showing a prospective buyer around the house.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps our mousies have been watching Fawlty Towers?  Basil the rat&#8230;?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2088.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1455" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="Mousies! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2088-300x225.jpg" alt="cats Mousies!   Life in Brittany, France" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s hope the prospective buyers don&#8217;t read this blog!</p>
<p>How, I hear you ask, can we have mousies when we have two perfectly fit and healthy cats around?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been asking myself the same question!</p>
<p>I guess that not much mousie catching is going to happen when your two perfectly fit and healthy cats are more interested in cuddling up in the sunshine!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;ve tried to shame them into action&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2089.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1457" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="Mousies! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2089-300x225.jpg" alt="cats Mousies!   Life in Brittany, France" width="300" height="225" /></a>&#8230;.I&#8217;ve even tried bribing them!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But in the end&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you want a job done properly&#8230;..</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8230;.. You have to do it yourself!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here mousie mousie&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">A nice bit of cheese for you!</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a cat&#8217;s life!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder where I have gone wrong in life. I think the real mistake was not being born a cat. I look at my two sometimes and think&#8230; &#8220;Yup, you&#8217;ve got it cushy!&#8221; Fed and kept warm &#8211; and cuddles on tap! I suppose I ought to admit that the Girlie is fairly well [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/its-a-cats-life-01.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-45" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="Its a cats life! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/its-a-cats-life-01-300x225.jpg" alt="cats Its a cats life!   Life in Brittany, France" width="300" height="225" /></a>Sometimes I wonder where I have gone wrong in life.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I think the real mistake was not being born a cat.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I look at my two sometimes and think&#8230;<em> &#8220;Yup, you&#8217;ve got it cushy!&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Fed and kept warm &#8211; and cuddles on tap!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I suppose I ought to admit that the Girlie is fairly well trained.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">She&#8217;s a good cook and is great at starting the fire.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And, as for the cuddles on tap&#8230;..</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">They don&#8217;t seem to think about the future.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps it&#8217;s a concept they don&#8217;t understand?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And maybe that&#8217;s the secret to a happy life?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Personally, I think that plenty of sleep and a nice warm coat have got something to do with it?</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/its-a-cats-life-03.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-51" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="Its a cats life! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/its-a-cats-life-03-300x225.jpg" alt="cats Its a cats life!   Life in Brittany, France" width="300" height="225" /></a>I do wonder what they dream about!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And what do they really think about us?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Slaves or masters?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;ve got a feeling I&#8217;m a bit of both.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Or perhaps more of an aged retainer, past his prime but kept on, out of charity.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And the cats are too polite to mention that strange smell and the dribbles&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/its-a-cats-life-04.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-55" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="Its a cats life! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/its-a-cats-life-04-300x225.jpg" alt="cats Its a cats life!   Life in Brittany, France" width="300" height="225" /></a>Oh dear!</p>
<p>I vowed that this would never become one of those&#8230; <em>Look how cute my pussy cat is&#8230;&#8221;</em> type blogs!</p>
<p>And look what&#8217;s happening!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to have to write an Anti-Cute system, to delete all those cute pussycat photos as I download them from the camera.</p>
<p>In the meantime, please feel free to go an vomit in the corner!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I got a feeling the cats won&#8217;t mind.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">This very funny book sounds a lot more like the France that I know. Read it and you&#8217;ll still want to come here, you&#8217;ll just be a lot better prepared for the surprises that France has to offer.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0552772968/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss&#8217; mistress?<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0552773085/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">In this book, you&#8217;ll get Paul, Elodie, her dad and some new French girls. All of them are of course hot and all of them adore Paul. Didn&#8217;t see that one coming&#8230;<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0552773492/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0552773689/keitheckcom-21"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0552773689.jpg"  alt="cats Its a cats life!   Life in Brittany, France" title="Its a cats life! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" width="140" border="0" /></a><small><b>Talk to the Snail</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">The only book you&#8217;ll need to understand what the French really think, how to get on with them and, and most importantly, how to get the best out of them.  With useful sections on: Making sure you get served in a caf&eacute;, Harassing French estate agents, Living with bacteria, Pronouncing French swear-words and much more!<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0552773689/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593062728/keitheckcom-21"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0593062728.jpg"  alt="cats Its a cats life!   Life in Brittany, France" title="Its a cats life! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" width="140" border="0" /></a><small><b>1000 years of Annoying the French</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? No! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? No! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593062728/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752877623/keitheckcom-21"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0752877623.jpg"  alt="cats Its a cats life!   Life in Brittany, France" title="Its a cats life! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" width="140" border="0" /></a><small><b>The Olive Farm</b><br/>This is television actress Carol Drinkwater&#8217;s lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a &#8220;new&#8221; French family and understanding slowly the workings and lifestyle of a vivacious Provencal community.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752877623/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0349115494/keitheckcom-21"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0349115494.jpg"  alt="cats Its a cats life!   Life in Brittany, France" title="Its a cats life! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" width="140" border="0" /></a><small><b>The Olive Season</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">This is an extraordinary and fascinating follow-up to The Olive Farm. The reader is drawn deeply and inexorably in to the world of the author, confronted with her personal struggles and entranced by her pastiche of growth and decay in the world of nature, a metaphor for her life.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0349115494/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">Carol and Michel have again returned to Appasionata, the Olive Farm that they have restored, and Carol is eager to continue production of the olives and attain their cerificate for producing Organic Oil.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752865447/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0753826127/keitheckcom-21"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0753826127.jpg"  alt="cats Its a cats life!   Life in Brittany, France" title="Its a cats life! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" width="140" border="0" /></a><small><b>The Olive Tree</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater&#8217;s colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that is evocative and perennial, it is above all a tale of our time.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0753826127/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">The photgraphy is wonderful and the book is a great insight in to life with the olives and all that that involves. There are wonderful pictures of the dogs, family, friends, even the dreaded wild boar. Recipes as well.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0297844040/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">Petite Anglaise is a memoir by Catherine Sanderson based on her blog of the same name. In 2004 Catherine decided to start up a blog based on her life in Paris.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141031190/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">Name: Sally Marshall Status: single mother Age: 32 Nationality: ten years in France, yet still English through and through I like: Living in Paris, playing with my daughter Lila (four years old), the company of good friends, the smell of baking bread. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141031247/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">John Dummer&#8217;s sharply focused descriptions of the landscape, towns and villages, and the weather of the South West of France form a animated background for a series of adventures with an array of characters from some intimidating and belligerent peasants to a sad little old man whose only companionship is a collection of antique dolls.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1840247703/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">This book is an excellent source of words and expressions, of varying degrees of vulgarity, that are used all the time by french speakers. I used it often during the first of my two years in France.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684854279/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;line-height:120%;">&#8220;Almost French&#8221; is the story of a woman who goes to France to visit a French lawyer she has only met a couple times before and barely knows. Of course, she gets caught up in the romance of the city and stays on to live there.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1857883705/keitheckcom-21" Title="Please click here for more information about this book.">More information</a></small></p>
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		<title>A present from the cats!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime I buy the cats some Prawnies. This is almost always a mistake! Not only are they expensive; the cats do like to give me a present in return! This is what I found beside my bed this morning &#8211; Ta cats &#8211; Love you lots! All the best Reddit Twitter Digg Share on Facebook [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/thanks01_256px.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-462" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="A present from the cats! cats   living the good life in Brittany, France" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/thanks01_256px.jpg" alt="cats A present from the cats!   Life in Brittany, France" width="256" height="192" /></a>Sometime I buy the cats some Prawnies.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is almost always a mistake!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Not only are they expensive; the cats do like to give me a present in return!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is what I found beside my bed this morning &#8211; Ta cats &#8211; Love you lots!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">All the best</p>
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