Moved/emigrated/decamped to Grenoble in August 2024. Super exciting and can't wait to write more about it....
Easter arrived we jumped in the car, drove until the daylight left and only then realised that the main front headlights were both not working. Shit. Only when you urgently need something do you wish that you had a system in place that would have told you that your lights were not working.
Lived in Grenoble now for 14 months and another Autumn is here and the first snows fell in the mountains around us last week. Yesterday we drove up to Chamrousse 1750 and then hiked to the top of Croix de Chamrousse (2250m) to get our first of the season. The weather was mild and then snow of earlier in the week had mostly melted but there were large pockets of snow so so the kids could make a…
At the parents place for half a week while the school holidays continue. Three weeks left in the UK until la vie en france commence . On Saturday we had our leaving party with friends and their kids, was a great time and really sad that friends will stay in the UK while we move to France, especially for the kids. We really all will have to start over when we move over to France. Friends, language,…
Instead of setting bookmarks I will never check I am recording some of the open tabs so I can check back on them at a later date. And you can too! generative art og images State of Events - marc thiele iceberger stop calling yourself an IC - Robin Rendle choose boring technology Adventures in reinventing interfaces - ffconf video on looking for a job ambient techno - youtube from web to react…
so grey the sky no sun to be seen we are four weeks away from moving to Grenoble and time is dragging. The kids last day at school yesterday and now summer holiday camps, a visit to their English grandparents, a flight to their French grandparents, Marion and I will go seperately after packing the house up and driving to Grenoble. No energy left to go outside the grey outside is numbing my brain…
This morning I decided I needed a place to post random thoughts to the internet without a build process or complex admin area, or anything like that, so I remembered I had seen Bear as a blogging platform so am giving it a try out. So simple and easy and straight forward to use and without all the complex crap that I do not need. Focus on the writing not the rest of that shit. So fast and so good…