chroniques d’une fraise

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My air plants arrived this week. They’re too small to put in the glass candleholders I’d found, but were just right for the two bonsai pots from the same secondhand store. I also got a bell cup to hold one of the tillandsia. […]

I am happy to learn that my cat shares the same talents for club dancing, yodeling and postmodern cardboard deconstruction. Malo also works with plants, although he has a specialization in the pruning of acer palmatum.
(Don’t give kitties too much tuna, as it’s not good for them beyond a very small amount. Malo gets kitty-specific […]

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Photos: before (left) and after (right) repotting plants
Ever since finding my new apartment just over a month ago, I’ve been bitten by the gardening bug. Since it’s the perfect time — spring — to buy new plants, I haven’t wanted to wait until […]

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As a woman you get used to having to prove yourself above and beyond men, who are much more often believed on their word. When visiting my new apartment and negotiating its purchase price, one of the things I noticed immediately was the […]

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Translation: “Strawberry has strawberries.” Hmm… Strawberry strawberries strawberried Strawberry strawberries. English is great. Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo! But I digress.
I was browsing a “nature products” store here (Nature et Découvertes) last week, waiting for a bank wire to come in […]

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After gorging myself on as many color and style ideas as I could, narrowing them down by my new apartment building’s own style (art deco, pale yellow/eggshell walls and pale green shutters) and my own tastes, yesterday I decided on a color scheme […]

When I first discovered the web in 1994, I loved its premise: links! Being able to jump from one subject to the next! A giant library of interconnected ideas from around the world! Today was especially fun for me, so following is some of my path.
Starting from DIY Ceiling Cat (beware bad souls, else ye […]

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One of the plants that came with my (current) apartment is about to flower. At my new place I’ll no longer have a balcony on which to put balcony boxes, but the extra room will be great for my maple and pine trees. […]

Signing on my apartment is proving to be a great learning experience. I’ve always been shy, and dealing with all that surrounds such a major purchase, in a foreign country, for the first time ever anywhere, is not at all easy for me. I don’t have a partner to fall back on when I realize […]

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The same cartoonist who created the animation of a cat waking up his owner has done another, called Let me in. Again he captured the essential characteristics of felines. Malo does the very same things: he’ll go outside, then scratch on the door […]