For Christmas my grandmother knitted Jay a beautiful dressing-gown, the sort that reminded me of Harry Potter and Charles Dickens and made Jay so snuggly and soft when he wears it that it was a huge hit.
Over the next few months I idly dropped several hints at how nice it would be to have […]
Filed under: famille et amis on June 29th, 2007 | No Comments »
With the unlikelyhood that F1 will be racing at Magny-Cours next year, this weekend will no doubt be bittersweet, regardless of the race, for Renault. Magny-Cours is close to their factory in Viry and naturally there has always been tremendous support for Renault at the M-C track. Of course the team isn’t displaying much of […]
Filed under: Formula 1 on June 29th, 2007 | No Comments »
A few weeks ago my grandmother sent Jay some DVDs of Shaun the Sheep. We don’t get it here and Grummns had thought that Jay would enjoy it. Check out his reaction for yourself.
My grandmother also said the theme song was addictive - Jay had it down after watching two episodes!
Filed under: popculture, famille et amis on June 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Are you frackin’ kidding me? Paris Hilton on Larry King and a huge segment on Anderson Cooper? What the f@$%? What is wrong with the American media? What happened to decent journalism for God’s sake? Utterly ridiculous.
I love Anderson Cooper…”How much of it is an act? That whole…appearing like a moron?“
Filed under: media on June 27th, 2007 | No Comments »
Keith and I were doing our usual how-and-where-shall-we-live-in-Europe discussion the other day; Keith’s requirement is simple – he wants mountains. Mine are a little more demanding - I want ocean and beach and Italy. He asked me why I liked Italy so much, in particular Rome and my reply was that it felt like home. […]
Filed under: famille et amis on June 25th, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the things I miss most about being in Europe is the chance to just pop off to somewhere totally different for the weekend. Of course there’s always the country cottage or seaside house but for GPB 60 or so you can get on a plane and go to a whole different country and […]
Filed under: indiana, famille et amis, travel on June 25th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I always thought I’d marry a man who was as suitably obsessed with clothes and looking good as I was/am. At least one who knew not to wear white socks unless with trainers and for sport, one who understood the golden rule of matching belt and shoes and one who knows the difference between a […]
Filed under: famille et amis on June 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
Fantastic day at the 2007 US Formula 1 Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton took his second victory with Fernando second, followed by the two boys in red Massa and Kimi. Heikki gave a superb performance managing to keep Kimi off his back for the better part of the race but succombing to the (other) Finn’s stellar […]
Filed under: indiana, Formula 1 on June 18th, 2007 | No Comments »
I think I’m going to just have to accept that Renault is not the team it was last year. Not that they’re doing horribly, 6th and 10th on the grid is okaay but quite frankly compared to McLaren and Ferrari, Renault are sucking. Qualifying was super fun to watch today. It didn’t seem quite as […]
Filed under: Formula 1 on June 16th, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted pics above, (click on the slideshow gallery to view), although I know most of you will be bored to death. And I’m not sure being there would have made an R27 nose cone or wing shell any more interesting, but let me tell you, it got me hot and I ain’t talking about le […]
Filed under: Formula 1 on June 14th, 2007 | No Comments »
How goddamn excited am I about tomorrow? Way, way too excited for any normal person to be. I have butterflies I am so excited. Oh my god, I’m actually going to be in the immediate presence of an R27 and Giancarlo Fisichella. I can’t think any more, let alone put together a decent, coherent entry […]
Filed under: Formula 1 on June 13th, 2007 | No Comments »
Just occasionally I impress even me with my cooking capabilities - mainly when it comes to the baking genre, of which I am particularly bad. Don’t really understand it as my Great-grandmother was a professional cook, my grandmother is a fabulous cook and makes amazing puddings and my mum is just a genius in the […]
Filed under: famille et amis, culinery delights on June 12th, 2007 | No Comments »
So instead of spending a gloriously sunny Sunday afternoon inside watching the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal I was instead actually spending it outside in the glorious sunshine. Keith, Jay and I went to Kings Island for the day and immersed ourselves in amusement rides, the water park, over indulged in Dippin’ Dots and Starbucks […]
Filed under: indiana, famille et amis on June 11th, 2007 | No Comments »
I canNOT believe that I missed the race yesterday. And not only did I miss it but my stupid DVR decided that it’s not intuitive enough to determine that when I ask it to record anything with Formula 1 in it, it can’t deal with the fact that the grand prix was titled Candian Formula […]
Filed under: Formula 1 on June 11th, 2007 | No Comments »
To be perfectly honest I don’t care too much about what a politician gets up in the privacy of his own home, I don’t even really care if he’s corrupt and sneaky. Just make the right moves to increase funds for education, make healthcare better and cheaper (never going to happen I know) and install […]
Filed under: media on June 7th, 2007 | No Comments »
This would have been breaking news if I had posted it when I actually received the text message…oh what it’s like to have friends on the inside…
S: “Turkish Armed Forces have just walked into Northern Iraq. I’m sure America will go apeshit.”
Me:”…here we go. Uh, Nato? Hello?”
S: “Yes, we are part of Nato. We’ll kick […]
Filed under: media on June 6th, 2007 | No Comments »
I know I bust Keith’s balls a lot but when it comes to fixing stuff the guy is incredible. He’s currently downstairs having completely taken apart our five year-old Frigidaire front-loading washing machine in order to put in a new ‘rear outer tub assembly with bearing and shaft seal’. If it was left to me […]
Filed under: famille et amis on June 5th, 2007 | No Comments »
Malthazar (voiced by David Bowie in the US version), Arthur and the Invisibles.
Friday night is movie night at our house. I make pizza (Genoa salami and portabello mushrooms, goats cheese and smoked salmon - scrummy), Keith makes proper popcorn (we don’t have a microwave so no carcinogenic butter here) and Jay gets to stay up […]
Filed under: popculture, famille et amis on June 4th, 2007 | No Comments »
Happy Sun
by Molly
It’s that time of year again and it seemes to happen to all of my friends…the sun starts dangling his long, caressing fingers through the grey, dull shadows of winter, batting the spring showers away with the back of his hand to stroke one’s body in delicious warmth and whispering promises of long […]
Filed under: indiana, Formula 1, famille et amis on June 4th, 2007 | No Comments »
