La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴☠️
40+ years in IT : coder, sys eng, cybersec researcher
BA(Hons) Modern Language Studies
TEFL (Business English adults and teens)
Proofreader
Lover of Nordic Noir
Adoper ot abused & abandoned ponies
Made in Britain Saved in Brittany
- Today I am grateful for: A dry spell enabling me to do some work in the garden Otta being calm this morning during our 'stable session' Still grateful for my little old car into which I crammed a huge bag of garden waste for a trip to the tip Cheap fizzy wine No longer having to work in the Labs
- I really enjoyed Hit and Run by @dougjohnstone.bsky.social Although I had headaches as I was reading it and, can I smell smoke? But good for Billy ♥️
- And an hour spent handling Miss Daisy's latest test results from the lab in Guingamp, replying to the kidney specialists in St Brieuc, and chatting to her nurse
- Lady came to do the French census She has donkeys and a Shetland pony so we had a nice chat We also discussed ways to rid the world of despoticheads of state. I hope she did not write down my suggestions My online searches are dodgy enough as a writer and former cyber sec researcher 🙃
- Also lunch in the village restaurant with friends: Kir cassis Salads, cold meats, eggs buffet Turkey in cream sauce with rice Rich chocolate pud and custard 2 glasses wine Coffee and a chocolate 18.50 euros
- Today I am grateful for: Sunshine on chestnuts My garden (jungle) incl the masses of worms in the veg beds, thanks to offerings from said-chestnuts 🙃
- I would really like to try this: www.bbc.com/reel/video/p... One for the Wish LIst?
- and for a glass (or three) of fizzy wine with friends who wanted to show off the completed Christmas puzzle/scene I gave them as a gift. 1000 lego pieces. It is fantastic
- Vive la France www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Today I am grateful for: Sunshine My little old car Finding half price hydrangeas at Point Vert Being able to fix a friend's misbehaving laptop Lovely secretary at the renal dept at St Brieuc hospital Logs chopped for me by Parker That my ponies know the sound of my car & come to meet me February
- Downside of owning ponies is I no longer get to drive to the coast at 7 a.m. to skinny dip in the dark when the tide is high www.tidetime.org/europe/franc...
- Jail Peter Mandelson www.bbc.com/news/live/cl...
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- If Joe Biden is Sleepy, is Donald Trump Dopey? (as well as dangerous, deluded and despotic) Make America Decent Again
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- Reposted by La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴☠️Private equity owns lion’s share of children’s foster services in England, ‘bleeding the sector of money’. Profits margins of 19%. Money extracted in interest payments, intragroup charges. Children suffer. Ban profit-taking entities from foster services.
- Today I am grateful for: My friends and family My ponies Being OK mentally and physically Having my little old car back on the road My unruly, random home here in France The pink granite coast The fact that it is not raining today Chocolate, cheese and cheap fizzy wine
- Apologies for long, rambling thread... This morning I was walking Socrates round the village when we met my neighbour who was taking his 2 CV out for a little drive I had to smile at how unusual and interesting my life is here in France! La Vie en (Deux) Chevaux
- Another friend has serious health issues It seems that when one approaches 80 the body suddenly falls apart. I have 10 years in which to inprove and strengthen mine. But this is making me realise just how serious my cancer was and how little I cared for myself at the time Having to work didn't help
- Death is on my mind Not mine, I have been reconciled to that since my darkest days at Sophos when I would have happily departed this mortal coil, such was the toxicty of Sophos Labs that a cancer diagnosis came as a relief But the approaching death of a friend is hard for mer
- It is a strange experience for me, being so close to someone who is probably living her last months My BF moved to a hospice as she neared death and I was unaware that she was so close to death My sister-in-law let it be known that she wanted to be left in peace as she faced death My mum died alone
- I took Miss Daisy shopping today First stop Bricomarché where I gave an impromptu English lesson to the charming young man who helped me to find the hammers. When I left he wished me, "Good days Miss." I'd like these metal horses or someone to teach me how to make my own smaller version 🐎
- It's the last day of January and it is raining, again The ponies are soaked, the paddocks are flooded and muddy This winter was esp hard for me, personally This winter my SAD was brutal Anxiety levels were high There were nights when my demons danced devilishly I doubted my ability to keep going
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- Today I have: Cared for the ponies, mucking out, feeding, grooming Been to the rubbish tip Done shopping Fixed a computer for C. Burnt 2 CDs for B. Interpreted during a physio session for Miss D. Laundry & housework Studied Norwegian Worked on my French Written 2 chapters of WIP La Vie en Chose 😀
- You would think that Donald's friends (assuming he has any) would take him to one side and tell him every time he opens his mouth he makes a fool of himself and millions laugh at him Better to stay silent
- They say that money does not make you happy A serious lack of money is stressful & debilitating But, living on a UK state pension and very modest income, having my 19-year-old Corsa fixed and back in the road makes me as happy as if it were a brand new Ferrari I really appreciate these small wins
- I told the woman at the garage I think someone needs to take out the two most dangerous, despotic and corrupt men in the world and that were I in a position to do so I would happily sacrifice myself Why has nobody done this? Milliions of lives would be saved/improved
