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Renée 🐝 Cormier
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Down but not out in Paris. Part three.
Working split-shifts meant that I had a few hours every day to do chores, go for a run or wander about town. After the first two weeks when the hotel was no longer taking the security deposit for the flat out of my wages, I found myself with enough extra money each week to do mor ...
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Down but not out in Paris. Part two.
The staff accommodation was small and busy. The three-room apartment would have been perfect for a small family or a couple. With my arrival it was the crowded home to two French guys, three Algerians and a bloke from Cameroon who had the dubious privilege of being my new roomie. ...
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Besides My Best Endeavours, COVID Still Paid Me A Visit.
(I've been missing in action for a few weeks due to a liaison with a certain virus) · After 18 months of living through the COVID-19 pandemic, the pesky disease that's changed the world as we know it decided to pay me a visit. · Throughout 2020 we adapted to lives to try and keep ...
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On the road again
I enjoy writing. It’s not the torture that some experience and the only major problem I have with it is that Life gets in the way too much. Without work, socialising and personal hygiene, there would be more time spent pecking away at a keyboard but a need to eat and not live in ...
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The Friday Files 2021 - Part 4 The Nature Of Certainty
There is uncertainty all around us. You don’t always feel it, and that’s a relief. If you did it would make you a paranoid and nobody really wants to live that way. · The uncertainly I feel around me comes from being a little too much with the world. Writers tend to be that way. ...
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Since When Did Travel Become An Exercise Of Acute Narcissism?
Once filled with the sounds of suitcases rattling over the slightly uneven pavements, pulled along by bewildered tourists, my local streets now echo with the sound of children's voices playing outside near-vacant landmarks. Today these landmarks offer locals an intimate experienc ...
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Strawberry Fields Forever
The fruits of our labour … literallyWell the Beatles may have thought that Strawberry Fields were “nothing to get hung about”, but at least from May to October each year, the call of the tasty strawberry draws folks from all around, as if the ripeness of these fields will indeed ...
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Getting A Haircut During A Global Pandemic.
Six months ago, I delivered a proclamation to anyone who would listen, and, if truth be told, there weren't many of those. · My declaration went along the lines of, "I'm not cutting my hair until this bloody pandemic is over." · · Until late, this plan has worked rather we ...
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