Breaking Down The Door Of The Cukoo’s Nest..

I have tried to avoid talking about mental health with regards to my loved ones for a while now. My blog started from my partners dissolving mental health over a year ago.  It was a truly painful experience but not the first encounter I have had with someone close to me unravelling.
I have hardly written anything about [...]

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When Bad Things Rub Off On You And Start To Feel Good..

 

So, I am in the process of enjoying yet another long weekend off work thanks to the French view of taking gzillions of public holidays off in the month of May.
Frenchy got back early yesterday afternoon from the Frankenstein workshop where he was busy cleaning up a severed head to get couriered to Casablanca, and finishing off some [...]

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If Men Are From Mars And Women Are From Venus…Then Who Does The Cleaning On Mars???

Does anybody know…????
It’s just because I have come to the end of  a week long dispute about the logistics and advantages of domestic chores with Frenchy, which has included talking,then raising my voice somewhat when that didn’t work,then going into complete silence and ending up with me banging my head against the nearest concrete wall.
I [...]

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Body Parts And Bringing Your Work Home With You.

 
This morning is a great morning. It may sound strange but today is the day when finally the various body parts were removed from our hallway!
Maybe I should explain before I get arrested..and I will add a photo later today of what part of the hallway was like earlier on just to help with [...]

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Franglais V Frenglish..

A funny thing..
I don’t know whether cross cultural couples, for want of a better name, have experienced this, but it has a touch of the surreal about it.
On finding myself, an Irish born gal in Paris with her French boyfriend, using english as our first language to communicate, we have found that this seems to [...]

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