I'm back in Ed now, and even though things are a bit weird, it's excellent in most imaginable ways. I made a return to Faith last night. They had a "popcorn party", which is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds; a guy stood on the club's balcony with a great big tube of a cannon and shot "£600 worth of popcorn" onto the dance floor. Then, everyone ( Read more... )

So, I've obviously fizzled on the "facts" of February front...but just because I've had little to say doesn't mean things haven't been good. These past few weeks, France has been better than it's ever been, and I'm enjoying being here immensely, every day. That said, I'm going...back to Ed for a week because...I don't really know why...but I'm ( Read more... )

This is the first day I was ever in France:


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Posting every day is difficile even if I have got nearly five months of backlog to draw on. I'm afraid my "facts" are growing increasingly dull. Though, this may even qualify as an actual fact, which maybe compensates for something ( Read more... )

This is in the square at the end of my street in September when the Rugby World Cup was being held in France, occasionally in Montpellier. They were having what I imagine was a "Styles of the World" fashion show, because I heard them bandying about the word "Ecosse" several times while I was at the cashpoint. A sucker for anything that goes down ( Read more... )

As it turns out, the Montpellier Zoo is one of the more depressing places at which one could hope to pass a few hours during an idle afternoon, and today, I had the great pleasure of spending my hangover there. To be fair, I don't recall having been to a zoo in at least a decade (and isn't it scary how I'm starting to reference life events in ( Read more... )

In my French apartment, the windows are all, figuratively speaking, open; there are no substantial curtains or blinds. Covering my bedroom windows are only horrible, chintzy, transparent odes to privacy; even my door contains an insert of smoked glass. In the bathroom, there is a window (albeit high up, tiny, and generally obscured by steam) that ( Read more... )

It took a while for Montpellier to grow on me; when I first got here, I wasn't sure that I'd ever mange to understand it, let alone grow to love it. But I think I finally have; there have been inklings of it since November, but now, my love of things French has definitively reasserted itself. And, it has managed to surpass what, even recently, ( Read more... )

Is it obvious that I wrote yesterday's Fun France "Fact" as a backdated after-thought when I stumbled in from Mardi Gras celebrations at 2:00 am? Because it should be; there was no way I was going to be in at 11:59 last night because I have an inappropriately strong (and well documented) love of Mardi Gras. It was nothing legendary, but a very ( Read more... )

Even though I am just one person, having three types of cheese in my fridge is perfectly normal.