Peter Scott
@dwpete.bsky.social
Former herder of information and global fixer of broken stuff Living legally in France with my kiwi wife. Don’t call me an expat, I’m a Brexit refugee. Nuclear chemist, copy writer, provider of nuts to Secret Squirrels.
Connections Puzzle #1148 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Purple comes from getting out too much
Remembering silly days of travel. The Sunday commutes to Brussels with the train home on a Friday evening. The weekly flights to Athens on a Sunday evening and home around midnight on Friday, just enough time to do laundry and pack.
Somewhere in the garden we have a little owl. I saw one here two years ago
Working on my new mashup: Steptoe’s Wives Strange goings on in the junkyard with totters’ totty
Do French immobilier really write … et une piscine chauffée, qui est la cerise sur le gâteau ???
Local TV château owners were having coffee at the bakery I avoided being noticed as English by speaking loudly in French
3 months ago I bumped into the maçon in the épicerie. Me can you come around to quote on some work? Him I’ll be around next week Today he texts me oops I forgot. Is tomorrow ok?
Made a new dipstick from a 4m bamboo cane. It seems our underground water tank is down to its last 1000 litres Hopefully we get rain before the next forecast rain in October
Poitiers and shopping Go seek a cakey thing that isn’t mouse. Something with crème pâtissière, not too dry. Today’s the day all the bakeries are selling carbonised viennoise and muffins
Wild boars in the woods today We are lucky here as we often see boar, roe deer, foxes, hares, buzzards
Merguez cassoulet in Thai coconut curry sauce Hmm, I’ll let you know
A Daily Fail article popped up on SM feed. A retired English couple in Spain lost their home in the wildfires. Of course this is saddening, it’s devastating to lose your home However the key reporting was • English • the villa had a bar • the EXPAT community in the village is supportive
A couple of weeks ago I changed the shower mixer tap (it was too hard to find the correct thermostat cartridge) The new one has flow and temperature knobs swapped around. Even today I’m twisting the wrong knob and dousing myself in cold water instead of turning the shower off
Yesterday I was discussing with OH how Americans misuse the word “vanilla”. And lo, that word appears in one of today’s online games and yes, misused
I have arranged for thunderstorms and a deluge of rain here tomorrow Who knew it was a simple as packing away the covers of the log stacks
The Airbus 350-1000 ultra long range test flight flew over my house on its way back to Toulouse from Melbourne. Over 24 hours in the air flying the long way across the pacific and Atlantic
Dear AI When looking for new tyres it doesn’t help if you suggest great deals on sizes other than the ones we searched for. 18” tyres don’t fit on 16” rim, just saying
Another fire, this time near Blois Hope you are safe @victoriameldrew.bsky.social
Le Cantal placé en vigilance jaune pour pollution atmosphérique en raison des incendies en Gironde Wow, @taniadoney.bsky.social
Is it wrong to ring a stranger’s doorbell and ask if you come in and straighten the picture on the wall opposite the open window
