Let the sunshine flowers in

Sore throat, headache, reddish nose, inspiration reaching ground 0, yup I'm sick! (but not THAT much on the other hand ;-)

That was to be expected with this unstable weather... heat, thunderstorms, then rain and cold winds! Pfffff...

Yet, we had a great weekend, spending most of our time outside. And we took the opportunity to have no "plans" on Sunday to make the plan to bring bits of a garden in the flat.

My dreamteam worked hard, but it was worth it!



We now get a very exotic garden in front of our windows, which seems absobloodilutely appropriate with the weather we get!

the *celebrity* chinese portrait

(lol yuss, on weekend, I enjoy wasting my time creating stoopid stuff, specially when I'm sick :P)

You must write the first name that comes to your mind here, that's hard, but that's the game! :)

SOOooooo, if you were a celebrity... you'd be...

a writer: first name... (thinking)... John Irving!
a painter/artist: Juan Gimenez
an actress: Susan Sarandon
an actor: Ewan McGregor
a director: Frears, kubrick, Leone, I can't chose!
a musician: Carlos Nuñez
a singer (female): Bjork
a singer (male): Beck
a band: Pink Floyd
an adventurer: a cosmonaut
a king/queen: Henry IV
an inventor: mr/mrs Pampers (the one who invented modern diapers!)
a tv character: Buffy
a movie hero: Blondie
a movie heroine: Barbarella
a cartoon character: Captain harlock
a tale hero: Little Red Cap
a tale baddie: the wolf
a mythologie character: a centaur or a nymph, I hesitate!


all images borrowed on the internet, thank you guys!

The worst insult

(heard earlier when Loup was playing in the sandpit...)

boy (3 years old) to boy (3 years old)

-"you are cute"

-"don"t say that again, I'm not cute!!!!"

-"oh but yes, you are even VERY cute!"

flying sand came as a conclusion

Spoiled!

I've been spoiled, indeed!
For my bday I got zillions of wet kisses from the lil wolf, a wunnerful drawing (of meself) from the shrimpette and a great surprise from my other-half.
Martin arrived with a huge bouquet of sunflowers, cooked a really yummy dinner, took care of the kids till they went to bed, and finally offered me a pair of boots... but not just "a" pair of boots.
Boots (doc martens! huhu!) I had seen in a magazine like a year ago!!!
What a surprise for me! I had almost forgotten them!

And he did not find them here in France, it would have been too simple... he had to look everywhere to finally find them in the USA!

And all that made a very happy Candy!



Now I just need the moto that will go perfectly with my boots!

Meme pas honte aka Hardly blushing

I still don't speak German
I read people's magazines and spend much time here, there and there
I can't touch a sparrow, nor a tiny red fish (or I simply die.)
I watch "sometimes" (huhu) YR and German tv movies (with happy beginnings, happy endings too lol)
I sometimes prentend Loup's diappers are not full, till Martin arrives.
I've made lots of compilations with blondie, madonna, abba, and kim wild and I must say they're really good :P
I'm unable to park my car and, every time I enter the car, I always wonder which pedal is the accelerator..
etc, etc.

And lately, I've found something to add to my *black* list...
Lola often plays on a site for kids her age, with many lil flash games... and if she gets enough points when playing, she can modify her lil "character" (new head, new hat, new outfit, etc. Pretty girlie, pretty cute, pretty kewl).

Hiding now behind the excuse to win points for Lola, I've abandoned my refined mah-jong to play this, and... ... I spend way too much time on it!



(I don't give you the url, you might also fall into the trap! I'd feel bad for that!)

Pocket money

A question to professionnal translators (or inspired ones) around here :P

I've been asked to translate 14 pages (English -> French), and been offered 100 euros for it... which means about 7 euros/page.
How does that sound? Too cheap? Reasonnable?


PS: my *pocket money* will be used actually to pay for new stairs in our hobbit home. These will be the first 100 euros.. another 2500 to get! (talk about patience and determination!)

Flower Queen-ette

Our 4 days away from Paris were really *guud*, despite too much work in the hobbit house (I started in the morning at 9.00, Matin finished in the evening at 8.00! 4 days like that... pfffff just too much!)

But we had sun and so many flowers around! First bbqs, first planteur punches, first naps on the grass (I had one! weeehooooooo!)... great first spring-ish moments! (happy sigh)

We go back there for summer holidays in 2 months. Way too long, of course! :)

33 lil precious moments

1.when I get my first coffee in the morning (like right now)
2.when Lola and I share a girlie moment (make-up powaaa!)
3.when I hear Martin coming back from work
4.when I get the idea for a new painting
5.when I see a new leaf on a dying tree in our garden
6.when Loup asks for my arms and my cuddles
7.when Lola comes to me asking what's the name of the insect she's just caught
8.when my babies get crazy after their bath, running everywhere like puppies
9.when Lola screams in her school corridor that I'm the prettiest of the mamas... and not the fattest one! (lol)
10.when Loup gets so boy-ish, getting over-excited when he sees a truck
11.when Martin gets so supportive with every one of my projects (even when I try new cooking!)
12.when the babes finally fall asleep in the evening
13.when I get time for the blogsphere
14.when I can enjoy a glass of bubbling champ'
15.when I make cement to fix new stones in the hobbit house
16.when we make zillions of plans about what we must do next in the hobbit house
17.when I can watch a movie without interruption
18.when I get a postcard (I love postcards!)
19.when I have enough money to buy new shoes
20.when I discover with a very mother-ish eye all the flowers we've planted in our garden
21.when my mom cooks seafood
22.when I drive without stressing (which hardly ever happens!)
23.when I can sit down with a book for more than 10 minutes
24.when Lola is quiet for 15 minutes, then comes back dressed as the most lovely princess (in her own way, you know! kind of pirate, tzigane way)
25.when I can lie down on the grass for a nap
26.when Martin gives me a back massage
27.when the bred is still warm from the oven
28.when I meet friends in the street (easy here, we gets some around!)
29.when I play lottery, knowing it's gonna be my turn :P
30.when Lola and Loup play together, which now happens a lot
31.when Lola defends Loup when he does something wrong (like painting the walls)
32.when I sell a painting
33.when it's Friday evening, and that Martin joins the 3 of us for the weekend!

33 lil (huge?) precious moments that makes me think 33 years-old can be really terrific!
Lucky me!

I can already feel the taste of the crepes.. wanna join?

because, je fais le pont, moi!

faire le pont could be translated literally as "to make the bridge"
In French it has 2 meanings (feel free to grab your pen if you wanna take notes, huh ;-) :

1. To get a long weekend (we have the thursday off, we just extend the "off" part)
2. To perform a bridge, as in gymnastics!

Have a great week, etc etc and see you on Monday for a most important event! :P

Gargantua's tears

We got huge raindrops yesterday! heavy and bloody *wet*... Now I could start talking about the so strange weather again, but no. (phewwww!)



PS: new update on Lola's bloggie :-)

The 2000 lolita vs the 2007 lolita !

Which one do you chose?
(don't tell me none!)

Alizee - Moi Lolita
envoyé par hakim93200

(hope you'll enjoy the actor's talent of the singer here, above :P)

Moi Lolita - Alizee - Julien
envoyé par patinette

PS: what? teenage stuff? Hardly!!!

From reality to sensuality

First I thought it was a corpse (...), then a plastic bag, huh... finally I almost blushed discovering the intimacy of this creature with the waters.
Loved it.

Nimwendil is back !

He's alive and kicking!

...and it's here (yeeepeeeeeeee!!!)

And they did not win!

I've just missed the best show of the year (the Eurovision song contest, naturally!)... pffffff

And what do I discover? they were there and they did not win!

Apocalyptica Eurovision 2007
en voyé par Atropos44

Too bad they made the funniest head-banging I'd seen in ages!!!... Actually I think the horrible show around (helllooooo we were not at the Olympic games here!) did not fit at all, spoiled their music!
But nice "no t-shirt" + "long hair" touch! That only will make my day!

As for the Frawnch, in case you missed it, a *lovely* eurovision song (and they did not win either!)

Eurovision 2007 france les fatals picard
envoyé par juldark

Ok, now let's make a hit of it, take your mike and sing!

"I remember jolie demoiselle, the last summer, nous, la tour Eiffel
I remember comme tu étais belle, so beautiful with your sac Chanel
Sur les ponts de la Seine, let's do it again, again, again, again,
You gave me a rendez-vous, what is it ? what is it ?

Je le chercher à toi, dans les rues, je ne suis pas venir car tu ne l'es plus
Je le regarde partout, where are you ? My heart is bleeding, Oh I miss you
L'amour à la française, let's do it again, again, again, again,
You gave me a rendez-vous

Et je cours, je cours, je cours, I've lost l'amour, l'amour, l'amour
Je suis perdu, here without you, and I'm crazy, seul à Paris
Je tu le manque, sans toi I can't, et sous la pluie, I feel sorry
Champs Elysées, alone, la nuit, le Moulin Rouge, I feel guilty"

What's the last cd you bought?

... you do not ONLY download stuff online, huh, nooo... So try to remember, what's the last cd you bought for REAL!? :P

It does not happen often here, but 3 weeks ago we ordered 2 cds:

The first was from Psapp (those who made Grey's Anatomy soundtrack). Unique style, beauDiful.. they get their own musical planet, and me thinks I'll stay a while on it ;-)





And then there we got this Superbus album "Wow"... even better than what I expected! From song 1 to song 12, I love it! And I will definitely get everything they made! wooohoooooooooooo





Well, not easy to share musical tastes... but I'm still curious about what YOU bought!

If I was a faery, I would chose a peony

...to have the most salacious nap on the most delicious spring-ish day :)



Actually, I love peonies (pivoines) when they just start to open. Stretching a petal here, a petal there, just as if the whole body was getting up.

Such beauDiful creatures!

Does memory only *store* what REALLY matters?

I hope not, or I'd worry for meself.
I don't know how your memory works, but mine is playing tricks, too often.

See..
I'm unable to give details of a book I've read 2 weeks ago;
yet I remember most details of a movie I've seen 10 years ago.
I don't forget faces but I'm not good with names.
I remember the birthday of e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y around, but tend to forget to wish them!
I use my credit card 10 times a day with the same ol' code (which was created at the beginning of life on earth)... yet I still forget it regularly!

And when I see the kind of details my memory "stores"...

..like...

the metallic taste of the kisses with a boyfriend when I was a teen
the specific smell in the bathroom of my grand-parents in Normandy
the very unique and weird colour of a ceiling in this London hotel
the shape of the front door of all the places where I've lived
the smell of the awful hair lotion from a british boyfriend
the glompphhglommph feeling I got when putting my spoon in the only rice pudding I'll ever had (17 years ago!)
the way my English History teacher looked above his spectacles
the so thin ankles from another English teacher
the shape of the glass when I tried Lagavulin (a hundred years ago!) for the very first time, and the burst of sensations following the first sip (drooling!)

Why do I remember so many details of my life while I'm unable to remember most important stuff, I wonder.

I think my memory needs exercise... good, my grand-ma has zillions of books and games for that (yawn) ;-)

....

"One elderly couple is visiting another for supper. The two women go into the kitchen for a moment, leaving the men to talk.
One of the men says to the other, "The Mrs. and I went to the nicest restaurant last night."
"Is that right?" the other inquires, "What was it called?"
"That's just it," he replies "I can't recall. "Say, what's the name of that red flower that has thorns all over it?"
"A rose?" he responds.
"YEAH, THAT'S IT!" he says energetically.
He then whirls around and yells into the kitchen:
"Hey, Rose! What was the name of that restaurant we went to last night!?"

huhu

Spring Cleaning (girls, they just wanna have fun)

I see 4 reasons to explain a sudden session of Spring cleaning

1. It's Spring! (huhu)
2. It's fookin dirty around ! (yumm!)
3. You're stressed and need to get rid of these nasty vibes (it works!)
4. Your in-laws are about to visit you...!

I expect my beloved in-laws (waving at Christa and Achim :-) in 2 days here, so of course I've turned into a washwashwashcleancleanclean powerpuff girl!

I must admit Martin is also very good at it (but did he have any choice really? nope!)

Now I tell you, behind this spring cleaning, there are 4 precious days to come, with the kids over happy to make run their opa and oma, and with a Candy just over-excited to get lil help :)

Bloggers & journalists

2 different species?

Well... yes, I think so, don't you?
(I'm not talking of personnal blogs here, which have nothing to do with "journalism")

Yet, when you read the Wikipedia's definition of a "journalist" ("A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people"), it is very close to what many bloggers are.

So what's the difference?
I believe some bloggers are as competent as journalists.
What about objectivity. Is there this kind of ethic with bloggers? I'm not sure.
(well well, I know journalists are sometimes way less objective than expected)

Why do I talk of that today? Just because I'm surprised to see so many bloggers invited in "serious" tv or radio shows to share their views, just like historians, journalists, etc.

Wait, I find that kewl that suddenly there is a kind of "democracy" in these shows. The internet is also represented! yeah, cool.

But there's a lil something disturbing. I can't put the finger on it yet... Maybe it's like being a blogger/blog writer is now enough by itself to get credibility.

...

Well, if anyone wants to interview me about shoes, I'm ready!
Wait, I can talk about wines and rum too
hmmmm, I think you can trust me too when it comes to masonry and carpentry!

Wondering how much Paris can smell like roses ...

The best part of the early morning? I wonder ... the croissants, the sunshine or the blooming roses!



edit: it feels wunnerful to not talk about fookin politics on my bloggie tonight! I'm going to have a beer and paint the walls of my kitchen now! weeehooooooooo! :P

Il est l'heure, Monseigneur, have a planteur !

(I just had to bring some balance in this blog after my political post! )

Welcome in my lil paradise...
here you get sof music (sometimes)
no political consciousness ;-)
a warm sun and
an endless sea
white sand and red crabs
just enough breeze..
Oh (tssss...I was to forget the most important here!) and planteurs too!

...I've already put the recipe here, maybe a couple of years ago... but I bet I've improved it with personnal touches!

1/4 liter of orange juice
1/4 liter of pineapple juice
1/4 liter of guava juice
1/4 of white rum
a drop of grenadine
cane sugar
bits of green lemon
ice

You mix everything slowly together and then you can start sipping!


photo from here

Where's my hamac again?!!!

Almost there (trembling...NOT...in my boots!)

Have I said I won't talk of politics again on my blog? Ouch!
I was just a liar, but I swear (spitting far) I won't do it often. I know most of you do not care anyway, but I just need to share, with myself at least, what's boiling (more or less, huh) inside.

The elections are tomorrow...tadaaaaa!
Thank Gawd!
I'm tired of hearing people giving lessons to others, telling them what is right and what is wrong, why they're more intelligent than others, that they "know" what to vote better than others (Gawd bless them for such a strong knowledge!)

I can't believe how many people are still trying to make those who vote differently feel guilty. "how can you vote him/her?" "How dare you?" "do you have any political consciousness?"

Oh gawd I hate this propaganda, I can't stand people calling their neighbour nazi because they simply vote for the right party! Or the same way I can't stand others calling their neighbour lazy profiteers because they vote for the left party.

Be passionate, yes, defend your ideas, but stop attacking others for their beliefs (but ok, you do as you want, lol :P)!
It is simply ... exhausting to hear about so much hatred... That's what really made me sick during these elections... not the possible results, simply the Hatred.

I don't wonder anymore why it's never been a good idea talking politics with friends or family... : because people do not respect others' choices. People do not accept others think differently.
End of (my) chapter...

Personnally, I'm not too stressed for tomorrow, it won't be a good surprise in any case since I do not support their respective programs.

Yet, I will vote for the left-ish candidate, with much reluctance... and only because the center's ideas (my political preference) have more chances to be represented and developped with Mrs Royal as Presidente.

Cheers!

The new victory of the S(cottish) N(ational) P(arty) ...

...just reminds me of University where I got my MA in English and American History (& literature)

I can't believe the same Candy who writes about the purfect sandals' quest, also wrote almost 300 pages about a possible Scottish independence on the 21st century!

I'm just too proud typing it, lol, sorry, that's very self-centered

PS: and I remember it was the time when the Internet just started really. Nobody used it yet. Life for students without the internet was really something! We had to read the books (faint ;-), go to the libraries, call and talk with people to check information, etc! Can you imagine?! :P

Endless cuddles

The lil wolf and I share a lot of them everyday. I complain often that he sticks to me too much, but...

I confess I really LOVE these sweet moments :)

Politics, sandals and icecream

As we hear about politics everywhere here in France (next Sunday we get our new president), I thought it was an appropriate time to talk about serious problems on this bloggie.
Like... how difficult it is to find the purfect sandals for summer.

Sandals for the feet are like ice-cream for a dry mouth. They're supposed to feel wunnerful on hot days.
But the whole dilemma with sandals is to get comfort and beaudy at the same time(which is quite true with shoes in general).

I tend to give priority to comfort though... but shoes are now so expensive that you can't just compromise!

my dream would be a mixture of these:

+

(for the beauty one, the heel is ... 9.5cm high!)

and I have almost found my perfect combination, still with a heel of 6cm, but I should be able to walk with them.


The brand Clarks', so I hope their quality's good enough. Their price? 75 euros. Expensive, right. But (convincing meself) not that expensive for "perfect shoes" (lol)
Anyway, I don't have the money rightnow, but I might save for next month (dunno how, but, I believe in miracles -and lottery-)!

(PS: I hope this post made your day ;-)

My mama's heart's beating fast when ...

I see my shrimpette coming back from a walk after spending her lil money on flowers rather than on a carousel..

I was so sick yesterday (and I believe my spicy chinese shrimps were not so innocent here), that I had to stay in bed the whole day, feeling as if I was on a rolling fishing boat (those which really stink "fish and oil", you know?!).

And there came my Lola, with her 5 flowers, so happy to make me happy!
Woaaaaa it feels wunnerful to be a mama!

"White voter"

In case you missed it, we're about to vote for our next president, on Sunday.
And I will vote "white"... = I will go to vote, but won't vote for right or left parties. I'm criticized for my choice, almost constantly, which I do not understand. I thought freedom of thought, freedom of vote meant something.


found here

I've read the programs, followed tv debates... thank you Fañch for this great time online! .. and even if I would tend to vote for the left party, mainly for the environment position... the rest of the programm isn't valid enough, to me.
And I won't vote for the right party, mainly because of their social position.

The heart on one side, the head on the opposite...easy! ;-)

So you might criticize me as much as you want, but I will vote the way I did before (= according to my own beliefs and principles) and I'm really proud of it! :)

edit: (cough cough)...
...I wait for Bayrou's speech later today... but I might follow my heart, because I'm a woman, because I'm a mom and because I have kids, I think Ségolène will be more efficient on these matters. These are the only reasons she would get my vote.
My mind's really boiling and I hate that!...

Dernier soupir

(last breathing)

I'm usually much inspired with Spring in my paintings... But I've jumped over the season, with the Parisian heat at the moment.
So here's a colourful painting, representing Death though.


click here

And I dedicate it to a *lady* who loved Life and daffoldils, a lady who left us a few years ago and that we won't forget... just like daffodils every year, her memory comes back with our Spring here (sending a big hugg to her daughter) **~~*^* *

I do believe in miracles!

my computer has not crashed since Wednesday.
It works it works!!!!!!!!

What did we do? We got rid of the graphic card, so very high tech one, that we bought a few weeks ago to fix a "graphic" problem.

Now finally my computer works without any interruption, I know my luck, I'm going to burn a candle in some lovely church ;-)

For Mahjong solitaire's fans :P

I know I'm not the only one on earth to play it!
lol
Martin does too
And Lune, yes!

As mentioned last week, I'm trying any free mahjong solitaire I can find online. This one is pretty kewl, just plain, simple, basic. But without any score. Not purfect!
The best ones though are not the free ones. (sigh)
I will keep looking for the perfect Mahjong, and will find it!

Elisa, Bonnie, Melody and BB

As promised to Hiro, who's learning French , here are 3 songs by Gainsbourg that I really love. I could have added "Elisa", but I did not find anything on it really.

I hope one day you can read the lyrics of his song, Hiro, they're great!

The first one ... la ballade de Melody Nelson (1971), wonderful, making my skin all sensitive! (but not when I watch the video of it! lol)

Gainsbourg_2.Ballade de Melody Nelson
envoyé par occiMORT

Then, Bonnie and Clyde (1967) ... A song that makes me believe anytime I hear it that I am also a Bonnie (lol)

Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde
envoyé par scootaway

...Une nuit que j'étais
A me morfondre
Dans quelque pub anglais
Du cœur de Londres

The Initals BB. Sergio Leone + a greek tragedy, that's what this song is, to me!

Gainsbourg initial BB
envoyé par tedyxxx

And for the Gainsbourg's fans, if you remember "le poinçonneur des lilas", you might enjoy this :P

Gainsbourg le fossoyeur de Pacy sur Eure
envoyé par foetus

Cover your eyes, you prude souls (it's all about seksss!)

here comes the *sea* and *sex* part of the weekly theme (sea, sex, and sun)
(I hope you're not too shocked, Fañch :P)


found on http://www.lifeisajoke.com/

Not as terrifying and hot and wet as the previous one, but I REALLY love it:


found on http://www.lifeisajoke.com/

Lola's getting ready for the next Olympics!

Lola's bloggie has just been updated!

A French fry, a son and a mama

Loup is getting supa good at imitating everything he sees... which is always quite fun!

A French fry a la Lady and the Tramp
envoyé par candyfroggie

A first heat wave for Paris ?

My heaters haven't worked for a month now! Last year, I stopped them on the 1st of June... wooohoooo, t'is crazy, but t'is good cause I'm going to save some euros with lighter bills :P

Serge Gainsbourg - Sea sex and sun
envoyé par val6210

Crossings bits

So that François YouknowWho (Ornot ;-) does not join the armies of Darkness today ;-)
(that was my political touch, I really can't help it :P)

edit: oh thank you François, you just said everything! You're my heroe of the day! Weeehoooooooooooooooo!!!!

edit #2: (washing my mouff) my heroe of the day, the month, the year is Martin! My computer has worked without any problem since this morning! Woaaaaaaaaaaaa

Dr Evil, what are you playing at?!!!

(grabbing my notes)
8.32 am
8.41 am
9.16 am

2.15 pm
2.24 pm
2.36 pm
2.52 pm
3.29 pm
3.33 pm
3.37 pm
3.43 pm

8.00 pm
8.09 pm
8.12 pm
9.13 pm

these are the exact moments when my computer crashed yesterday. In different ways (Dr Evil enjoys diversity it seems), getting frozen usually (which ended with a fatal Ctrl+Alt+Suppr), or simply turning off by itself, black screen, or also getting frozen but refusing to be rebooted (had to push on the big button behind the puter then, you know?)

For those who haven't followed this thrilling story, a few months ago, my old computer (if you consider 5 years old is old) stopped working one day. Bought a new one, got troubles with (pirated) stuff that didn't work. Saved money, got new stuff, and got problems again. No virus here. Just Dr Evil playing with ol' Candy it seems!!!!!



grmppppppphhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Like Penny said, I'm a prisoner in my computer! And I'd better find the key to get out of it soon or I'll get crazy!

Today, we try a last lil thingie! Pray the Gods for me!

Candy Greenthumbs is back!

3 words to sum up these holidays: sun, work and garden (yup there's a nasty word hidden here ;-)

We've worked a lot, about 7 to 8 hours everyday, Martin working in the morning and I in the afternoon.
Still working in the living-room, working on the walls and the fireplace. Trust me, it will look good at the end! ;-)

We've chosen new doors and windows too, we should get them installed in the next months. But we've also lost contact with our mason. He's never available, we've to find a new one. Sheaaaaat!

The best part, regarding the house, was the garden this time. We have plnated our first trees, and it was fantastic (and damn expensive!)
I absolutely wanted a palm tree and a cherry blossom ... and I got them!!!! (do you know the cost of a palm tree, small, like 1m50, here? 250 euros minimum!!!!!!! Jeez)
We've also planted (grabbing my dictionnary):
a Japanese camellia
a lilac
an apple tree
a pear tree
a laurel (laurier-sauce)
more bamboo (don't you love the music of the bamboos in the wind?!!)
a butterfly tree (no idea about the translation of arbre à papillons!)
periwinkles (pervenches)
sweat peas (pois de senteur)
nasturtiums (capucines)
more roses too, old ones with a wunnerful perfume.

(happy sigh)

A pity we won't see our garden in a few days, there are already many flowers to come!
We made a good job with the garden, I'm rather proud of it :)

We had sun the whole week, with temperatures that could reach 26°C in the shadow. In Bretagne, in April!!!
lol
Lola and Loup could run nekkid in the garden under water almost everyday, they had the time of their life!

Really it was a good week, even if a bit too expensive ;-)

Here come the pictures below ...
(they've lost much quality once put on dailymotion, a pity!)

Easter holidays, Bretagne, 2007
envoyé par candyfroggie

If my computer stops crashing every 10 minutes (in average)

...I'll be back very quickly with a holidays gallery.
But fook, my damn puter has started crashing again!
Usually when I work with images, which I do all the time...

What a pain in the bum!

A toi, François

(sowwy, Frawnch politics again... I'll make of this post a real quickie, I promise!)

Please, François, don't take any position to support Ségolène or Nicolas.
That would really break all my hopes with politics!
Just keep your independent position and let your electors chose freely :)

Just back in time ...

... for the French elections!
phewww!!!

:P

I hope *my* canditate will make it... Otherwise I will have really wasted a wunnerful sunny day in the most glorious countryside!

edit: grmpppphhh! He did not make it... and my suntan hasn't improved! pfff...
I'm very disappointed with the results, except for Le Pen's relatively low results (never low enough though).
The good thing for me is that I will not make any choice between the 2 chosen ones, and I'll enjoy the sun instead! Yeeehooooooooooo!!!

but what a pity, we had one opportunity to make something different, but here we go again.

Democracy's not fun sometimes :P

Ooooops! ...I do it again!

I almost feel bad (but no! lol) for those who're working hard at the moment... but I have to confess that tomorrow evening, I'll be sleeping (rather drinking at this time of the day) in my dear old Bretagne. Again.
And for a whole week!
And sun is expected, with temperature between 20 and 25°C
Do you think I need to take some sunscreen with me? hmmm, no maybe not, it's just early April after all!



I'll leave tomorrow evening and will be back just in time for the big stressing thingie.

I'll miss you, but I'll try to survive :P

Lola Tralala

The other day, the shrimpette asked to get her own blog sometimes, to show and sell her drawings to people (what a working lil girl! hehe), just like her mama :-)

We thought about it for 10 seconds. It could be a nice way to keep a journal of her early years, with what she makes and creates, her activities, the important moments of her life. A good way to share it with her grand-parents and friends, who sometimes live abroad.

I could include all that in my own bloggie, but no... I don't want my personnal space here to be dedicated to the life of my babes only.

So there you go, it's here and alive!
You can't imagine how Lola is proud to see her *work* on the screen!
4 years-old and her own blog! hehe...
What a bloggers' team we make ;-)

PS: It's in French, not because I'm lazy, but because most of the time I type about what Lola tells me, with her own words. But I will regularly talk of her posts here, in English! Phewwww ;-)

A treasure of experimental electronic music! Yummm!

The name of this English band is Psapp (to be pronounced as "sap"), they make strange sounds in their songs, one of their song was chosen to be the soundtrack of Grey's Anatomy (so you might know them already ;-)

On their site, they introduce themselves as a band who makes "songs with noises poking out". That's about it. With Martin, we really loved the bits we heard, so we looked and bought one of their albums, we're waiting very impatiently now for their other one, now!

Don't you love it when you discover new music that you really like? (happy sigh)
That does not happen that often!

There is 95% of possibilities that their music does not touch you, but you never know... :P ... so here's the only video i've found from them (pretty cute one!)

Psapp - Tricycle
envoyé par dekku

edit: I have found this other video, if you're still curious about it, and this time it's one of my fav song from Psapp!

Allergic to Paris ???

No that can't be!



...but 12 hours after we were back from Bretagne, my allergy was back too. My poor sore eyes!
Would there be some nasty pollution around my beloved Paris? Pfffffff, that is a possibility I guess, but i will firmly deny it!

Bits of the hobbit house

Why the "hobbit house" by the way?
Because it looks pretty small (specially the doors, which is a reality), but from the outside only. Inside it's about 110m², divided in 6 rooms.

Ok, as I can't resist much Laurienna ;-); and as she wanted to see more of the hobbit house, here are a few images of it, taken last weekend. Sorry for the bad quality of the all movie, but it's just what I have.

You'll see in it half of the house, mostly the front part of it, with outside walls that will be renovated (get rid of the cement joints), doors and windows that will be changed soon... with bits of our front garden in which there should be new trees very soon too (including a palm tree), also with bits of our living-room with the fireplace (the rooms on the ground floors are those on which we're working), etc.

I think that will be enough to frighten you! hehe
Too bad I have no images from the other side of the house, with the garden going down to the river.

Anyway, I guess that will give you more than an idea how we spend our holidays...

Bits of the hobbit's house
envoyé par candyfroggie

Cops, eggs and sun

I'm writting a quickie today, just because the only thing I want right now is jumpin into your blogs to get the last news, and then, playing mahjong (which happens twice a year, but when it happens, it really does! :P)

So, to make it short (which is not usually my way, huhu):



1. I WAS RIGHT !!! And I loved it even more this time ;-)
The hobbit house was still virgin. Except the door which is actually really broken, the robbers didn't take anything and didn't vandalize any wall!
What a relief, I tell you!
They only "borrowed" a ladder to enter the house of our neighbours...
Phewwwwww!!!



2. We finally had a wunnerful weekend, with so much sun, with a purrfect egg-hunt (I hope you've noticed the Breton-ish detail on the pic by the way ;-), with delicious drinks with English neighbours and with good work in the hobbit house (we've renovated 60% of the big fireplace! Even the cops, who visited our house (...), were impressed with our work (proud smile here)

Yup, finally it was a good weekend :)

About to draw the curtains over the blog ...

...for 2 days! (hehe.. I could see the panic in your eyes, huh ;-) (no? no panic? pfff, you could have pretended!)



Just enough time to drive to Bretagne, get some good surprise with the house (...), have a talk with the cops, enjoy chocolate rabbits, and wooosh we're back.

Take care of your stomach, happy Easter!


Flash news:
1. Lola wants her own blog to show her drawings to the whole world like her mama! lol She'll have it!
2. Loup can now tell a third word: after "maman", "papa", here comes "BONBON" !lol

Men and shoes ... Men are really not from Venus

hehe... well, at least Loup is from Mars. No doubt on that.
He regularly commits the worst, the unbearable sacrilege, from our female-ish point of view.

here is a pic of his daily crime:



(faint)

yes, yesterday he managed to throw into the bin 8 pairs of shoes!!!!

The eyes of allergy

Is it due to pollen? To AC ? no idea really. The thing is that about every 3 months I get some allergy that makes my eyes turn into mashed straberries! I have some treatment to ease the pain for a few minutes, but, that's all.

I start the day with these horrible swollen eyes...



...and finished with real bloody ones!

Another lil pain in the bum
The worst part, besides the pain that is, it's the people asking you:
"what happened???",
"you don't seem to feel ok, you can talk if you want"!
lol...

My weekly flowers, just a real pleasure

As I'd say like 70% of women at the moment (lucky 30%), I've started my 2007 diet (huhu) to prepare meself to run on the beach like some bo dereck (lol)

So no more sugary treat here and there, which I've happily replaced with flowers about every weeks! No more than 3 euros for the bouquet, that's my rule :)

So here are the flowers I've just found. Their name? I've forgotten. Wild flowers, beauDiful, a touch of countryside in my flat.

The hobbit house has been *visited* !

Oh shit, I've just got a call from Dinan's police to tell us there has just been a burglary in our hobit house.

(big big sigh)

We have such shitty doors and windows that I'm not suprised it finally happened. The *funny* coincidence is that we have rendez-vous on next Saturday to sign with the carpenter for new windows and doors!!!

pfffff...

Ok, I don't stress too much, because we had nothing of real value there, except expensive equipment for the works (but does that really interest people? I hope not!)

I just cross my bits so that there was no vandalism in it. My precious walls and floors, made with love and sweat. I hope we won't get any real bad surprise. But that we won't know before being there.

Fook, we're there only 2 days and we have already half od our time taken by all that.

(I'm still looking for the positive side of this burglary, to get motivated.. but right now, hmm, no I can't see the bright side of the moon!)

Legs' hunters

In the *silhouette*, here come the mermaids :)


click here