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The Nanobots are coming!

18 September 2026 in france

Let’s kick off with a political allegory…. Once upon a time there was a group of antibodies. Just like all the other antibodies they were there to protect the body and stop nasty outside attacks from causing harm. For a long time this worked perfectly well, and all the antibodies...

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Is La Poste a problem?

9 September 2026 in france

Not that we’ve been expecting a deluge of correspondence since moving here, but after 7 weeks it was starting to feel like maybe their was a problem with receiving our post. We’d had some in the early days, including a batch from the UK of everything we’d received at Tolpuddle...

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Our house sale fell through

3 September 2026 in france

Yeah. Deeply frustrating, non? We’d been pushing things at our end (as has our buyer) for some weeks, with the delays being at the bottom of our very small chain. These were first time buyers, and their solicitor got wrapped up in a non-issue that ultimately screwed things for us....

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