chroniques d’une fraise

First: thanks to everyone for your well-wishes! It’s nice to see you all! (I know my blog isn’t comment-inspiring, I myself only comment elsewhere once in a blue moon… so I understand it, but it is nice to “see” people.)
The very first thing I repaired for my new apartment was my mailbox. The lock on […]

At 6:15pm, my notary phoned and said the money was in their account. That has to be one of the fastest French bank wires I’ve ever seen — which makes a few points scored by my bank’s regional office after my previous post. Since I’d taken the afternoon off already (having planned to sign), I […]

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Apparently, setting today as a signing date was cutting it a bit too close. My bank only wired the notary this morning, and naturally, the notaries need to wait until the money is actually in their account before handing over the keys. Although […]

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With the signature of my apartment scheduled for this upcoming Monday, I was finally able to go back to my favorite secondhand store and see if the solid oak dining table I’ve been coveting for more than a month was still for sale. […]

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It’s been drizzly the last couple of weeks, but the sun came out after a morning rain today, so I woke up early and took photos while walking to Cours Saleya. There’s too much sun for good pictures in the afternoon — as […]

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I’ve had a hankering for baked potato with chives, which helped remind me that chives are easy to grow. Once again I walked to the Fiol gardening store, and once again I was tempted by other plants as well. On a tight budget […]

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My neighbors across the quiet residential alley from my balcony probably wonder why I contort myself so strangely to take photos of plants: every once in a while I’ll spot someone staring at me oddly. Today I got on my back to see […]

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My PC as it was for two years on the left, and my “new” PC on the right. For my birthday two weeks ago I got a nice discount from my favorite PC-related electronics site (LDLC) and so used it to upgrade my […]

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This unique nighttable is another of my secondhand — which in France often translates to “antique” — finds. I bought it two years ago and promptly loaded it with books. With nearly everything packed for my move now, I took the opportunity to […]

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While packing for my upcoming move, I discovered that the photos of China I’d long thought lost were, in fact, packed in a box along with other backups. Today I uploaded, organized and mapped them in a photoset: China 2003. The photo here […]