Comments on: the end of the affair?

By: Michele

Michele — Mon, 30 May 2005 23:26:30 +0000

Petite,

The reasons you are staying are so very important. It is wonderful when a place can capture not only your heart but your spirit and that is what it appears to have done for you.

By: Teenie Martini

Teenie Martini — Mon, 30 May 2005 17:12:25 +0000

doesn’t it make you feel a bit odd to be talking about you and your Mr Frog (as in frog prince?) breaking up?
You’re not, are you?? Everyone seems to be getting divorced these days. :( i wish you all the luck in the world NOT getting divorced, as that would be tres, um, what’s the french word for sad? and i like red nail polish! in moderation.
http://www.teeniemartinime.blogspot.com

By: amy

amy — Mon, 30 May 2005 11:52:51 +0000

Petite, good luck with whatever life throws at you in the coming months. Congratulations on being brave enough to take your life back. It’ll be tough, no doubt, but surely better than living a stale life you’re too scared to change.

Amy
xx

By: b

Sun, 29 May 2005 23:14:01 +0000

Hi petite,

I’ve been pretty busy so it was a shock to come back and find out about your recent life-changing decisions. Of course, everyone’s said everything already, but I do just want to say I’m thinking of you too. And that it’s better to be happy over the long-term and suffer a little for it. On top of that, I wouldn’t move from your apt either! Happy that you are staying around.

Bisous,
b.

By: witho

witho — Sun, 29 May 2005 12:33:27 +0000

I have been pretty nomadic for the past 10 years or more, a bit like Alan.

I’m still not sure I know where “home” is and I’m always open minded about moving on.

I’m not ruling anything out. I may even end up back in France one day, if the BF will come with me.

I know what you mean about losing touch with the “homeland” – I came back from France in 1994 to find everyone there was talking about “Friends” and “Four weddings and a funeral” – neither of which I ever really “got” because I missed all the hype.

You say tadpole is French “first and foremost” – I hope you can ensure that she gets “the best of British” though ;)

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 29 May 2005 11:38:12 +0000

Slightly different, because in my case I just can’t imagine ever staying in one place for more than three or four years at a time again. But when I left Brussels and before I went to Dublin I went and lived in my old home town in the Cotswolds for a few months. And I felt like a fish out of water far more than I ever have in any of the various cities I move around to. I felt like I was such a different person now from the one who left there over a decade ago, yet everyone expected me to still be that person. I think whoever it was who said “you can never go home again” never spoke a truer word. If your heart is in Paris, and Paris is in your bones, then Paris is where you need to be.

By: Krek.

Krek. — Sat, 28 May 2005 21:52:11 +0000

Excellent blog, this. I’m afraid you won’t be able to read mine, but most of my francophile visitors do have the English and will visit since I linked you on my site. Please send them back to me once in a while.
I don’t know wether I’ll find the time to come visit often (bit like mr. Frog, I am), but you are in my bookmarks and I’m sure I’ll drop by once in a while.

Greetings from a Dutch French countryside (71) dweller.
Bon courage!

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 27 May 2005 19:41:47 +0000

Ahh…rooftops..how picturesque :-) personally I prefer greenery..the penines..or yorkshire wolds. But each to there own…besides you dont meet many French speaking people in Holme firth…well…not THAT many!

By: mary

mary — Fri, 27 May 2005 14:13:47 +0000

how nice it was to read your mum!
she’s so reassuring
bz for a peaceful ‘hot’ weekend

By: Zed0

Zed0 — Fri, 27 May 2005 11:47:00 +0000

Good on you, glad to hear that you remain a “petite anglaise” and that you live where you feel most happy.

Can you hear people say ” A NOUS LES PETITES ANGLAISES”.

ZedZero