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  • Oh Good. It’s Snowing.

    Oh Good. It’s Snowing.

    3rd December 2009 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this

    Oh, if I’m not careful I am going to be labelled a miserable bint. ‘Too late’ you say? Right. Pointless holding back now then, eh?

    Before anyone feels the need to point out that I CHOSE TO LIVE IN A SKI RESORT I admit, hands fully aloft, that yes, indeed I did. But I also like moaning about it, in which case please feel free to read somebody else’s much cheerier...

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  • “Excuse me – but who IS this?”

    “Excuse me – but who IS this?”

    27th November 2009 | 3 comments | 2 people like this

    This week a Parisian restaurant (and a popular one, as I discovered to my *joy*) decided to divert all calls from their reservation hot-line to their work mobile number. Except they didn’t. They forwarded them to my mobile number.  At a risk of sounding like a creaky old fart, I remember when my home telephone number was a mere five digits long. It is now twelve and seemingly there are...

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  • The Grass is Greener (ish)

    The Grass is Greener (ish)

    4th November 2009 | 0 comments | 6 people like this

    At a risk of sounding British, leaving the UK to work from France isn’t all it’s cracked up to be...

    ‘Ooooooh! You live in the French Alps!’ squeal most people excitedly (yes, even males) when I repeat my address for the third time for them because two foot of unexpected overnight snowfall has resulted in a spectacularly bad Skype connection.  For most people, i.e. anyone who doesn’t do it, living and...

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Deborah Willimott

Deborah Willimott

Deborah Jane Willimott is a freelance writer who escaped to the snowy promise of the French Alps a few years ago after London destroyed her sanity and her credit rating. She regularly contributes to various websites and British womens glossies including Cosmo and Glamour but despite these grown-up pursuits is primarily a thirty year old still working part-time in a cafe, renting a room the size of a chest freezer and attempting to write amusing and entertaining content for popular consumption. She writes a daily blog at http://theweemo.wordpress.com/ And shes working on a novel. Of course.