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YAYYYYY!!

Pareil ici. Suis dans la catégorie 'in between', moi. Mais en bonne anglaise, j'ai toujours mon p'tit parapluie dans mon sac récemment.

Never tried ours on that. They don't mind a bit of sweetcorn and mayo when begging/thieving tuna/sweetcorn salad.
We had one cat who fished asparagus out of boiling water to eat it - he adored it.

I hear you. We have a 4.5 m mezzanine with a barrier (of rods) but of course the cats have mock fights up there. So far, we've had two of them fall in 19 years - but fortunately both managed to land on the table below and without obvious injury.

Fabulous! How are you feeling now you're back?

I remember it turning up allll too regularly when I was a student in a hall of residence in the 70s. Ugh! It's horrible. But sometimes the other choice (never more than 2) was worse!

Thank you. Duly added to my Kindle list for my next binge!

Yep. He seems happy with the throw in its current position (it was in the garage when I got up this morning and then moved to under the dining table, together with a polar jacket of mine).

Hit send too quickly. The green throw has moved twice more, but its current position seems to meet with approval.
Salto - the art of relaxation!

Am I alone in being unable/unwilling/too weird to pronounce Leroy the French way?

Salto, the youngest of the gang. Ginger, and right now two perfectly black whiskers, one at each side.

This is the face of a cat whose latest trick is to remove an entire throw from the settee and walk off with it. Three times in 24 hours.
He's still cute, though!
#caturday

It's a big chain - not cheap but very ecology-focused. We've bought several shrubs there - they are also guaranteed! Their staff (at least in ours, in Valence) are very well-informed too.

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Bigger garden centres have them here, and I know they're available online. Sometimes called combava, sometimes Keffir lime. Do you have Botanic there? They also do mail order.
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If you can keep it indoors over winter, it may be fine. We get some pretty cold winters in the Drôme too.

You can get a keffir lime/combava bush? I supply all my friends with leaves from ours. Mind you, they need protection in winter.

We have well water for much of the year (thanks to the purifying system we inherited with the house). It's good. Even the mains water is OK.
Because I'm picky, I fizz it up with the SodaStream, mainly.

I hear you. I still remember some gag-worthy tuna cat food the cats liked, years ago in Switzerland. When I was pregnant, I just couldn't do it any more and changed it. Sulking ensued, of course.

(Good) Chinese food and any sort of other 'exotic' food is one thing I miss in rural France (Indian in particular). We get pizza, kebabs, plus supermarket sushi but not much else.
Wouldn't go back to the UK to remedy that, though (and I know it's needs must in this case).

British water? I always said Swiss water tasted like a swimming pool. Can't remember what it tasted like in the UK.

Yes.
Le lac me manque. La mer aussi. Mais les collines de la Drôme sont pas mal non plus.

That's what I thought but you talked about le lac Léman.
Ignore me. It's Monday and I wasn't fully caffeinated.
*Slinks off feeling stoopid*

Trente ans en Suisse et je n'ai jamais entendu parler de la Baie des Anges au Lac Léman.
I am mortified.

On habitait en face d'Evian pendant des années. Tu étais où? Côté français?

Same.

I doubt they'd make specific ones for French-speaking Switzerland but for Swiss German it'd be a different story. I was thinking more US/UK for English subtitles.
Your prize is me offering you free publicity (and wine/coffee etc. if you ever venture a little northwards to the depths of the Drôme).

Don't push it, mate! But I did presume that subtitles were region-specific if possible.
But please note that I *did* register all the awards you'd been winning.

It's cypress and maple pollen season here. Definitely sniffly.

Our sadly missed ginger tom always managed to pee and poop the second he was in the car on the way to the vet. The current band just scream all the way there and sulk all the way back.
Moving to France in 2007 with 4 at the time (5-hour drive) was... eventful.

@olivierroth.bsky.social want to weigh in on this? (Olivier is the World's Greatest Subtitler, btw).