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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Spotted in the car park last week&#8230;..
Two of them. parked side by side!
I didn&#8217;t get a look at the drivers but&#8230;&#8230;
The cars were perfectly parked and there weren&#8217;t any dents or scratches on them?
Very strange and certainly not the usual state of affairs!.


















 







Actually, for a VSP, this one looks quite trendy&#8230;
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Spotted in the car park last week&#8230;..</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Two of them. parked side by side!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I didn&#8217;t get a look at the drivers but&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The cars were perfectly parked and there weren&#8217;t any dents or scratches on them?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Very strange and certainly not the usual state of affairs!.</p>
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<td>Actually, for a VSP, this one looks quite trendy&#8230;</td>
<td>And look at the cool fake sheepskin seat covers!  I thought they&#8217;d gone out of fashion in 1982?</td>
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<td>The estate model has still only got two seats&#8230;</td>
<td>But the luggage compartment is slightly less small!</td>
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<td>Trendy, or is the right word&#8230; Groovy?</td>
<td>A car is not a car unless it&#8217;s got a Tweetie-Pie hanging from the mirror!</td>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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I suppose breaking news is more polite than breaking wind?
Now, try to stop staring at The Girlie and concentrate on the sign.
You see it&#8230;.
No, not the stuff about the car driving into the river.
The important thing&#8230; Rennes drew with Lille!.


















 
And The Girlie sitting outside a bar on a Sunday morning sipping a Ricard?
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I suppose breaking news is more polite than breaking wind?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, try to stop staring at The Girlie and concentrate on the sign.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You see it&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">No, not the stuff about the car driving into the river.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The important thing&#8230; Rennes drew with Lille!.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">And The Girlie sitting outside a bar on a Sunday morning sipping a Ricard?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Well, that&#8217;s hardy breaking news!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That&#8217;s one of her hobbies and I&#8217;ve got to admit that I quite enjoy it too!</p>
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		<title>It must be difficult?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be difficult?
To park those BIG, BIG VSPs?





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Personally, I don&#8217;t know how they manage to squeeze them into small parking spaces&#8230;
Without having a little accident or two?
I do suspect that not having a driving license, being drunk or just being a total pillock may have something to do  with it though?








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<p style="text-align: justify;">To park those BIG, BIG VSPs?</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Personally, I don&#8217;t know how they manage to squeeze them into small parking spaces&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Without having a little accident or two?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I do suspect that not having a driving license, being drunk or just being a total pillock may have something to do  with it though?</p>
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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 />
<a title="Please click here for more information about this book." href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593062728/keitheckcom-21">More information</a></small></p>
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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 />
<a title="Please click here for more information about this book." href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752877623/keitheckcom-21">More information</a></small></td>
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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 />
<a title="Please click here for more information about this book." href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684854279/keitheckcom-21">More information</a></small></p>
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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 />
<a title="Please click here for more information about this book." href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1857883705/keitheckcom-21">More information</a></small></p>
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		<title>Brittany Hillbilly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s finally happened&#8230;
I&#8217;ve become a Brittany Hillbilly!
I think that I was born to be one&#8230;.
I just took my time getting round to being one!
Next thing you know, you be seeing me reading with my eyes closed!
Whoops, you already have!









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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-2360" href="http://www.bretondiary.com/typically-french/brittany-hillbilly/attachment/brittany-hillbilly-04-brittany-france/"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2360" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="brittany-hillbilly-04-brittany-france" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/brittany-hillbilly-04-brittany-france-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>Well, it&#8217;s finally happened&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;ve become a Brittany Hillbilly!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I think that I was born to be one&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I just took my time getting round to being one!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Next thing you know, you be seeing me <em><strong>reading with my eyes closed!</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Whoops, you already have!</p>
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		<title>He&#8217;s at it again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I posted some pictures of a nutter (no other word for it) who had parked his car on the road when there were plenty of perfectly good parking spaces in a half empty car park.
See Is it just me? for more details!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2269.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1752" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="HPIM2269" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2269-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>A few weeks ago I posted some pictures of a nutter (no other word for it) who had parked his car on the road when there were plenty of perfectly good parking spaces in a half empty car park.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">See <a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/typically-french/is-it-just-me/">Is it just me?</a> for more details!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This morning I was getting some chicken netting for the new arrivals and I heard a put-put sound getting louder.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I had a strange feeling that I&#8217;d heard that sound before&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8230; my bottom started puckering and my heart began to race.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My testicles shrivelled to the size of peanuts; <em>&#8220;I&#8217;d be changing my underpants tonight&#8221;</em>, I thought to myself!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2270.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1755" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="HPIM2270" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2270-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>I knew that I had to find somewhere safe before it was too late!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I also knew that I had about 15 minutes before the vehicle got near enough to do any damage (they&#8217;re not fast, those VSPs!)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I decided to hide in a vacant parking space &#8211; that would be the last place Mr Nutter would try to park in!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sure enough, it was the same guy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2271.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1756" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="HPIM2271" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2271-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>The car looks like it&#8217;s taken a bit of a battering; it must be difficult squeezing one of those things into a confined parking space?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Totally ignoring me (and my camera), the car ground (and that really is the right word) to a halt outside Mr. Roady (the local car tuning and performance specialists!)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Where else!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I mean, it doesn&#8217;t bear thinking about&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8230; a Turbo-charged VSP (Vehicule Sans Permis) with go-faster stripes?</p>
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<td valign="top">Smallest car in the world, driven by the maddest person in the world &#8211; parked in the road outside the local car performance specialist!</td>
<td valign="top">I hid in these two empty parking spaces just outside the shop.  No chance of the VSP driver even beginning to consider the slightest possibility of parking there!</td>
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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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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>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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		<title>Chic or Cheeky?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 04:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either the emergency services in rural Brittany have got very Chic recently or&#8230;.
&#8230;. the owner of this Mini Cooper can&#8217;t read?
I spotted this in Redon yesterday.
I suppose it makes a change from VSP drivers parking wherever they like?
At least the owners of this illegally parked car had the sense to buy something that could do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2165.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1645" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="HPIM2165" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2165-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>Either the emergency services in rural Brittany have got very Chic recently or&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8230;. the owner of this Mini Cooper can&#8217;t read?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I spotted this in Redon yesterday.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I suppose it makes a change from VSP drivers parking wherever they like?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At least the owners of this illegally parked car had the sense to buy something that could do a little bit more than 45 kilometres per hour!</p>
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		<title>Is it just me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 04:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mean, I&#8217;m just a normal guy (well, normal might not be the optimum word but&#8230;) who doesn&#8217;t go looking for trouble!
So, why is it that wherever I go, there is some nutter (and I&#8217;m being generous here) in a bl**dy  VSP (Vehicle Sans Permis) parking like a blooming maniac &#8211; just to annoy me?
This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2092.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1495" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="HPIM2092" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM2092-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>I mean, I&#8217;m just a normal guy (well, normal might not be the optimum word but&#8230;) who doesn&#8217;t go looking for trouble!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, why is it that wherever I go, there is some nutter (and I&#8217;m being generous here) in a bl**dy  VSP (Vehicle Sans Permis) parking like a blooming maniac &#8211; just to annoy me?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This guy had the choice of the car park to use&#8230;..</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8230;so why did he park in the one place that was going to annoy other shoppers?</p>
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<p>The one place he wasn&#8217;t allowed to park?</p>
<p>There really were loads of free spaces!</p>
<p>Just look at the photos!</p>
<p>So&#8230; why park in the middle of the road?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Was it just to annoy me?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Is there some conspiracy out there?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;m reminded of that film&#8230; <strong>The Sixth Sense!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It just that instead of seeing dead people&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>I See VSPs&#8230; And they don&#8217;t know that they&#8217;re driven by nutters!</strong></em></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>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 />
<a title="Please click here for more information about this book." href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684854279/keitheckcom-21">More information</a></small></p>
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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>Conspiracy Theory</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m beginning to think that there is a conspiracy theory at work here.
Perhaps somewhere in Brittany there is a VSP owners club and the members take it in turn to park their cars (if you can call them that) where I am likely to come across them.
For example&#8230;..
I spotted this one today!
As you can see, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/HPIM2032.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1367" style="margin-left: 10px;" title="HPIM2032" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/HPIM2032-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>I&#8217;m beginning to think that there is a conspiracy theory at work here.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps somewhere in Brittany there is a VSP owners club and the members take it in turn to park their cars (if you can call them that) where I am likely to come across them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For example&#8230;..</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I spotted this one today!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/HPIM2033.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1370" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="HPIM2033" src="http://www.bretondiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/HPIM2033-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>As you can see, the owner of this car (the smallest car in the world) isn&#8217;t happy with using one parking space.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">No, he (or she) needs to take up two!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Are they doing it on purpose?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Just to wind me up?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps (and this does make a lot of sense, to me at least), the driver was so blind that he (or she) couldn&#8217;t see the white line!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, that makes me feel really comfortable !</p>
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