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*Short trips are awesome. I’ve always been a quit-my-job-and-travel-until-my-money-runs-out kind of person but living on The Continent (an anachronism I know, but it nevertheless (or therefore?) amuses me) has awakened me to the pleasures of three-day jaunts.

*In extremely rural mountain villages in valleys in the Bregenzerwald there are people whose houses were built in the shade (Schattasitta in dialect or Schattenseite in high German) and those whose houses stood in the light of the sun (Sunnasitta or Sonnenseite). Both are prejudiced against the others and ne’er the twain shall meet!

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There’s a special feeling I get when a big move is imminent, kind of bittersweetly jittery, kind of wistfully melancholic. All the things I should be doing mill about in my head, jostling for space and I have five or six to-do lists on the go (ok, that last is something I pretty much always have – I amused friends the other day by admitting that I have a list for cooking goals, the latest of which was getting faster at peeling artichokes).

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I spent the afternoon swearing at the neighbours in my head the other day. Every time I get everything done and go out on the balcony to lie in the sun – I’ve got to make the most of it while I can, it’s winter in New Zealand and I’ll have to get vitamin D injections or something otherwise – either someone starts mowing the lawn or trimming the hedges. Really loudly. It’s as if there’s a trip switch on my door. Does that sound paranoid? I think it might. Tell you what though, everyone ‘round these parts has a lawn fit for Home and Garden. I am often tempted to scream obscenities but I don’t. I am very adult and go inside and play things like Body Count at top volume in retaliation.

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