I love the notion of having a little second home via a friend living just a short hop away in another country. This is what I miss most about having left the UK to come to Australia. There is no "I'll just pop to Paris for the weekend" etc.
Also, I had no idea about the strict visa rules for people with second homes in France. That sounds very restrictive and would be good if such rules can be relaxed.
I'm going to be in the UK with my wife for Christmas, visiting my family (and her sister, who lives in London) and I'm quite excited to feel that cosy warmth of a Northern Hemisphere Christmas. Hard to believe that's essentially only a month away now.
Your enthusiasm sealed the deal with "Middlemarch." Going on eBay to get a used copy, hopefully old and with various scribbles.
"Un peu de douceur dans ce monde de brutes” (a bit of sweetness in this world of brutes’). Just a wonderful declaration!
"Anyone who knows my dog knows that she is a shameless social climber." Babbet for Maire de Paris!
"I feel like I could travel in a time machine to any decade in the last two hundred years, and there I’d find a version of this man..." That description painted a perfect picture in the room for rent between my ears.
"...affectionately refer to (in my head) as the ‘fish mafia’..." In 2007 the world-famous, Cleveland Clinic, started the 1st telework program in hospital pharmacy (the pandemic telework revolution was over a decade late; old news!) Anyhow, I had 32 years experience in hospital pharmacy by then, and even though I lived 70 miles south, in Youngstown, Ohio, they made me the1st fulltime hire. I brought along my brother and 4 other pharmacists. Administration, located inside the Cleveland Clinic, downtown, referred to us, collectively, 70 miles away, as the "Youngstown Mafia," since Youngstown was/is famous for its organized crime syndicates/gangland murders/bombings. You grow up here and live to reach age 70 you can't scrape the mafia barnacles off.
As for my vintage movie recommendation for this week: 1933's "Design for Living," staring Miriam Hopkins, Frederick March and Gary Cooper. A pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, based on the 1932 play of the same name by Noël Coward. So many great quotes!! And it is set in Paris! If you only have time for one rom-com before the end, this is the one:
Hey Hannah,
I love the notion of having a little second home via a friend living just a short hop away in another country. This is what I miss most about having left the UK to come to Australia. There is no "I'll just pop to Paris for the weekend" etc.
Also, I had no idea about the strict visa rules for people with second homes in France. That sounds very restrictive and would be good if such rules can be relaxed.
I'm going to be in the UK with my wife for Christmas, visiting my family (and her sister, who lives in London) and I'm quite excited to feel that cosy warmth of a Northern Hemisphere Christmas. Hard to believe that's essentially only a month away now.
Hope you have a great week.
Love the sketch!
Your enthusiasm sealed the deal with "Middlemarch." Going on eBay to get a used copy, hopefully old and with various scribbles.
"Un peu de douceur dans ce monde de brutes” (a bit of sweetness in this world of brutes’). Just a wonderful declaration!
"Anyone who knows my dog knows that she is a shameless social climber." Babbet for Maire de Paris!
"I feel like I could travel in a time machine to any decade in the last two hundred years, and there I’d find a version of this man..." That description painted a perfect picture in the room for rent between my ears.
"...affectionately refer to (in my head) as the ‘fish mafia’..." In 2007 the world-famous, Cleveland Clinic, started the 1st telework program in hospital pharmacy (the pandemic telework revolution was over a decade late; old news!) Anyhow, I had 32 years experience in hospital pharmacy by then, and even though I lived 70 miles south, in Youngstown, Ohio, they made me the1st fulltime hire. I brought along my brother and 4 other pharmacists. Administration, located inside the Cleveland Clinic, downtown, referred to us, collectively, 70 miles away, as the "Youngstown Mafia," since Youngstown was/is famous for its organized crime syndicates/gangland murders/bombings. You grow up here and live to reach age 70 you can't scrape the mafia barnacles off.
As for my vintage movie recommendation for this week: 1933's "Design for Living," staring Miriam Hopkins, Frederick March and Gary Cooper. A pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, based on the 1932 play of the same name by Noël Coward. So many great quotes!! And it is set in Paris! If you only have time for one rom-com before the end, this is the one:
https://youtu.be/2dkk6XosYzY?si=CX_axgZVyV0CeH_6