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The general parent category for most of the things I write about on here.

One of the more interesting Louisa-centric sub-categories is biodata (where I explore my personal history with graphs, maps and whatnot), and if you’re that way inclined, you can read about the wonderful felines and canines with whom I’ve shared my life too.

Paris – Sunday

1/5/2005 / / 0 Comments

We started off Sunday with breakfast at a street cafe called Le Beauville on the Champs Elysees. We had bread, toast, croissants and juice, plus the best hot chocolate in the world ever (and I’m not exaggerating).

After that, we walked down Av. George V to Pont de l’Alma and over the bridge to the Tour Eiffel. We took a long way around to get out of the (already quite warm) sun and approached the tower through Champs du Mars. We took lots of photos from a distance then sat underneath it and took some more. It was too busy to actually go up though which was a shame.
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Paris – Saturday

30/4/2005 / / 1 Comment

We were set to depart from Manchester airport on the 0630 direct Air France to Paris Charles de Gaulle so we had to get up at 0330! Given I had only arrived in Southport at about 2130 the night before, and it was well past 2300 before we got to bed, we were a little sleepy.

Thankfully though, the check-in and the flight were problem free – no delays, no turbulence and Mum barely even noticed take off. Really, it was a dream flight for a first flight in 30 years…

We arrived about 0900 local time and collected our bags. Then we had to wait for a No2 Air France bus to take us into the city. Several appeared but either didn’t take any passengers or were full already. Eventually one turned up and we trundled down the Peripherique into the centre. We were dropped off at the Arc de Triomphe and from there, it was just a short walk to the hotel – it would have been even shorter if we had sussed out the short-cuts that we knew by the end of our stay.
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Weekend in Paris with Mum

29/4/2005 / / 0 Comments

I had been promising to take Mum on a weekend away, involving a plane, for ages. She hasn’t flown since the days when planes were held up by sheer hope and sticky tape (the early 1970s) so we thought it would be good if I showed her the airport ropes so she would be more confident about taking Dad away on a winter sun thing at some point.

Anyway, after many false starts and then a very near abortion at the last minute, we finally set out for Paris very early one Saturday morning…

– written up August 2005

Window progress

15/11/2004 /

We’ve got four windows in now (living room, kitchen, bathroom and cellar), although nearly all of them still need sealing and finishing off.

A cat flap has been fitted in the cellar one. I’ve just started to train the cats in the way of the flap but it was slow progress: for example, Carbon was that scared of the flappiness that he ran away from it. I think they’ll need some more one-to-one tutorials with a side order of bribery to master the basics. A few more brain cells probably wouldn’t hurt either.

Normal behaviour

15/11/2004 /

We’re having double glazing put in at the moment and while the fitters were hard at work, I went down to the shop to pick up some beverage sundries. When I came back, I saw Sili (aptly named feline) hanging out of the space where the bathroom window once was. It didn’t surprise me in the slightest.

Damn spammers

12/11/2004 /

I got an email from “eBay” this morning claiming I needed to “update my billing information”. Of course, this was really just phishing for my eBay account details so they could happily defraud me and sully my good eBay name by defrauding others and bidding on Spice Girl merchandise. So, naturally, I clicked on the link to “eBay” supplied in the email.
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