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83. My Life in the P-O – May 2012

Kate 01/05/2012 0 Comments

Sunday 6th May Nake! There’s a nake on my step and Olivier is working!! It looks vicious! I’ve taken a photo of it (from a distance – it was clearly poised to pounce!) and have…

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82. My Life in the P-O – April 2012

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Thursday 19th April It’s a funny thing about moving to another country because all the things that you were desperate to get your hands on and your gob round become ordinary. Bread is an example.…

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81. My Life in the P-O – March 2012

Kate 01/03/2012 0 Comments

SUNDAY 4TH MARCH Today has turned quite windy, ’tho dry and sunny but yesterday was yet another in a long line of beautiful days in the P-O and my last day of stuffing my face…

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80. My Life in the P-O – February 2012

Kate 01/02/2012 0 Comments

Friday 3rd February Aie! Ca caille, ça pèle…. It is decidedly chilly at the moment – well into the minuses I am told, although here in my toasty office, I can’t feel a thing. It’s dry and…

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70. My Life in the P-O – January 2012

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Monday 9th January 2012 This is today, right here, right now, just taken from the end of the garden. Yes, yes, it really is. Isn’t it amazing? We are so blessed, waking up to sunshine…

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78. My Life in the P-O – December 2011

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December 16th What can I say about December so far? Fantastic? Warm, dry, sunny, fresh, envigorating…… absolutely delicious? The leaves are only just beginning to fall off the trees around Maureillas, the world still clothed in…

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72. My Life in the P-O – May 2011

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Sunday 8th I think I kind of zapped April this year! So much going on, the good, the bad and the ugly – a little bit of pay-back for the wall to wall sunshine that has flooded…

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69. My Life in the P-O – January 2011

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Tuesday 4th January Happy New Year! And dare I add that I’m so glad it’s all over? At the risk of sounding like Madame Bahumbug, I have to admit that it hasn’t been the most…

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68. My Life in the P-O – December 2010

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Thursday December 2nd Strange kind of weather to herald in December. It was actually quite warm yesterday, but with low cloud so it felt as if it was drizzling some of the time. Quite decent…

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68. My Life in the P-O. December 2010

Kate 03/12/2010 0 Comments

Thursday December 2nd Strange kind of weather to herald in December. It was actually quite warm yesterday, but with low cloud so it felt as if it was drizzling some of the time. Quite decent…

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