Some very sensible people suggested that Bruce and I watch a lot of TV while we are in France so that we get used to the language. We're not usually TV watchers, but we thought we'd give it a go. French pay TV is pretty awesome. We've found several channels that seem to play all our favourite stuff, plus a few other really excellent gems. Our current favourite is the extremely art-house "Souvenirs from Earth". This is what happens when someone gets a great idea for art, scores some funding and asks anyone and everyone for submissions. The result is fierce competition between artists and some fantastic TV viewing. I'm seriously considering buying the DVD.

Basically, watching this show is like watching Rage with a chillout/arthouse special on. All day every day.

I'm thinking that the arty friends of mine should at least try and badger Channel 31 into letting them do something similar with a few hours in the evenings.

Labels: art, dvd, france, tv, video

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Well, actually, the packing was done and out of the house by Monday, but we seem to have been pretty busy since then. It's a pretty full-on process. Normally when I move I just chuck stuff in garbage bags and throw it in the car. I'm not used to having to box everything up carefully, making sure nothing can move, documenting all the contents and translating into French. We also have a teensy, tiny house, and had to play box tetris in order to be able to walk around them. I wish that had been more exciting than it sounds. In fact, it was so agonising that we had to take photos of the process in order to vindicate our pain (honest). :)


Packing Saga

There's also plenty more photos to upload from the past month or so. Getting there slowly..

We've now only got one month left in the country! So excited! We're having a casual farewell picnic in the park where we got married. 15th Nov from Midday onwards. We're bringing the keg of beer. BYO anything else you want. :)

Where are we going? France. Why? Well, that was best explained here, even though that might be entirely out of date now.

Labels: europe, france, invite party, moving, photos

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So, we've been out and about. Doing STUFF and failing to write about it. Thankfully, we took lots of photos to make up for failing to blog.

I guess the most interesting ones are:
- Lumina @ Sevenhill
- Mat and Gemma visiting
- Daniel shaving his head
- Owen's surprise party
- Nett's party
- Babymania @ Riverton

In other news, we've booked our flights. 25th November is the day!

Labels: family, france, friends, house, moving, photos, travel

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Things change. We're now heading to France. This is all to do with Bruce's job and a request from the company he works for.

In some respects, this is a huge change of plans and we have a LOT of things to work out - like learning French instead of Swedish. In other ways, a lot of things are pretty much the same - we still need to get rid of heaps of stuff and pack up our lives entirely.

It's a bit of a stress, but it should be fun wherever we go. :D

Labels: bruce, europe, france, language, travel

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