Bonjour,
I hope you and yours are properly.
I’m sending you this article from Paris the place I’m catching up with some buddies to go to a number of the most iconic websites – from cafés the place Ernest Hemingway was impressed to write down, Edith Piaf sipped Champagne, and impressionist artists doodled on napkins – to attractive shops just like the perfumery the place Josephine Bonaparte shopped, and the cake store based by the patisserie chef on the courtroom of Queen Marie Antoinette. Include me by way of Instagram the place I’ll publish images and movies as we go.
My journeys are very Jekyll to the Hyde of my regular life which largely consists of renovating an outdated farmhouse (sure nonetheless renovating, I do know I mentioned I assumed we’d end quickly, 21 years thus far, however… subsequent yr. Perhaps!). We (me and my husband Mark) are renovating with our naked fingers (which is why it takes so lengthy), and we have now an unhelpful staff that consists of 4 boisterous canines, 2 Labradors, Ronnie and Reggie Kray, and a pair of Australian Shepherds, Nina Simone and Girl Ella. I have to admit I by no means even thought-about simply how difficult it will be to absorb 4 puppies without delay and a pair of of them with lengthy hair that wants common brushing. I’ve needed to be taught to be a doggy hairdresser – that was by no means on my plans! We even have 6 needy cats, one in all whom is a clingy stalker, Tigger (a component Norwegian Forest cat with huge ears that may hear me a mile off!), and chickens who’re all divas, and latterly, a gang of hedgehogs who’ve joined our little household and are actually dwelling in huts on the terrace. Various my time is spent cleansing up after everybody, I don’t learn about Dr. Dolittle, extra like Dr. Doalot. I actually wouldn’t have it another means although, and if I ever write a best-selling ebook that makes some huge cash, I’d soak up extra rescue animals.
However for this weekend, I’m loving being a vacationer, sightseeing, ingesting scorching chocolate at Angelina’s Tea Room close to the Louvre and sipping espresso at La Procope, one in all Paris’ oldest brasseries which opened in 1686! The cleansing job must wait…
Wishing you a really bon weekend mes amies and amis,
Bisous from the Metropolis of Gentle,
Janine
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