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Many of our friends did not know much, if anything at all, about Toulouse. Since this blog is about our moving there, I thought I should start posting about the city. Here is a video I found on YouTube that shows many neighborhoods of the city. The Drum and Bass soundtrack gets [...]

On Wednesday night we went to the Ritz Theater because it is $6 movie night, I miss $2 Tuesdays in Berkeley, and saw Death at a Funeral. It is a British comedy about the coming together of a family “with huge issues”, what family doesn’t have them, for the funeral of the father. There [...]

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I always feel the US is so out of the loop on this issue. New York City has obviously unlimited resources to develop any way it wants but what about other cities. Is the US going this way or is it a trend for the wealthy cities. How can we continue [...]

Alessandro and Stefano sent us pictures of their new cat Mila. What a beautiful cat. Send us your cute pet photos, we’re sucettes, I know you can’t say that but I did anyway.
Do you know this song? France Galle

As many of you know we made wine in our basement last Fall. We bought Alicante grape juice, we aren’t the crushing type. We have been drinking it and it hasn’t been very good until now. One demi-john became sour and we made wonderful vinegar out of it. The others still have [...]

In case you never saw this hysterical roast of Bush by Stephen Colbert. It’s hard to believe that some people think Colbert is on the right.

The reactions are priceless.
Stephen Colbert and his Colbert Report live from the White House part 2

Stephen Colbert and his Colbert Report live from the White House part 3

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