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The French Flip

After six months in California laboring to reduce our load of possessions and make an all-encompassing list of them for the Canadian government (required for settling in Canada), weeks of getting our new tenant installed and repairing newly-discovered defects in the ADU, and days of cleaning, schlepping, and shuffling all our household and personal items around to pack and make way for the caretaker, we finally got to sit still for five hours on the plane flying us to Montreal for the summer.… [Read More]

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Très bien!

Online again… More posts to follow.

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Bonjour Montréal

Despite all my whingeing about the internet situation, things are going pretty well up here. I’ll try to bring you up to date.

Friday, I went to the public library, where I was able to use the public WiFi to upload the pictures for this posting.… [Read More]

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Beurk encore! (Oh noes, part II)

Using a phone as a hot-spot to provide internet is less than ideal, especially if you’re a programmer. I’ve already burned through most of my 5GB roaming data for the month.… [Read More]

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Beurk! (Oh noes!)

We’re in our new place, and are getting adjusted. This is our second time renting a furnished apartment, and we’re discovering that different people define “furnished” in different ways. For example, this place has a full on wine closet but no toaster.… [Read More]

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Arrival

We took a really big airplane to get to Montréal from Los Angeles.

I mean, just look at it!

Seat-back map image

The flight was largely uneventful and somewhat less grueling than past flights.… [Read More]

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🫎

Whew! Just in time for our next sojourn North of the Border, Apple has implemented the newly approved moose emoji.

It should be visible above if you’re running an operating system that supports Emoji 15.0.… [Read More]

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“The Little Homeland”

photo: Lise Gobeille

Hey kids, we’re heading back to Montréal next month, and we’ll be living in a new arrondisement (borough) called Rosemont-La Petite Patrie (“the little homeland“). According to one source, it acquired the second half of its name from a novel that was adapted into a popular TV show:

The name of this district comes from a soap opera, broadcast in the 1970s, created by Claude Jasmin: La Petite Patrie.

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Watch this space…

A new adventure will be beginning this April!

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Home Again, Jiggity Jig

What a weekend! Our grueling travel day back across the border was endured, the post-COVID-booster-and-flu-shot side effects weathered, and now it’s Monday and back to business for us both!

So much business–mountains to climb, tunnel through, and raze for new foundations.… [Read More]