The credit card is still smoking… 🔥💳

Posted on October 4, 2026 by admin

A week that started with gloom and absolutely nothing planned somehow ended with London, West End shows, good food and a trip to the Pyrénées Orientales.

How did that happen?

Click in and find out — my bank manager may already know. 😜

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Feeling better 🇬🇧

Posted on October 2, 2026 by admin


    The worst is over… or is it? 👀

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The month that was – September 2026 🇬🇧🇫🇷

Posted on October 1, 2026 by admin

Fifty Years of Marriage and Another Kidney Stone

Petit spoiler : ce n’est qu’un caillou, et jamais je n’ai été aussi content de l’entendre.

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Le Blues 🇫🇷

Posted on September 29, 2026 by admin

Trois mois sans projets, des incertitudes médicales, la pluie et des amis qui disparaissent mystérieusement… Que demander de plus ? Venez partager mon dernier petit coup de blues.

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6 Hours of Fuji 🇬🇧

Posted on September 28, 2026 by admin

🏁 Six hours of racing, 203 laps, a victory decided by 0.591 seconds… and I watched the whole thing several hours after it had actually finished. Welcome to my new retirement-friendly approach to endurance racing: no alarm clocks, no spoilers, and absolutely no need to leave the chair.

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The week that was 39/2026 🇬🇧

Posted on September 28, 2026 by admin

A kidney stone, German guests, a cassoulet that should probably be reported to the authorities, and a Rafale loud enough to rearrange the furniture from 5 km away… and just when we thought the week couldn’t get more exciting, a grass fire brought four Canadairs into the airshow. In other words, a perfectly normal week in Carcassonne.

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🍂 Autumn has officially arrived… apparently 🇬🇧🇩🇪

Posted on September 24, 2026 by admin

Someone forgot to tell the sun, though — 34°C, a pool, German guests, a chicken tajine and rather too much wine suggest that summer has simply refused to leave.

🍂 Der Herbst ist offiziell angekommen … angeblich.

Jemand hat allerdings vergessen, der Sonne Bescheid zu sagen – 34 °C, ein Swimmingpool, deutsche Gäste, ein Hähnchen-Tajine und etwas zu viel Wein lassen vermuten, dass der Sommer einfach beschlossen hat, nicht zu gehen. 😎☀️🍷

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I had a plan. Then my kidney got involved 🇬🇧

Posted on September 22, 2026 by admin

I thought the NFL landing in both London and Paris would finally break my travel deadlock. Instead it just added a third city, a countdown to Christmas lights in Mallorca, and one extremely inconvenient medical plot twist.

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Hebdomada Horribilis – Week 38 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇩🇪

Posted on September 19, 2026 by admin

One kidney stone. Two patients. Zero sense of timing. This week, medicine took over the household, a tiny mineral took my calendar hostage, and the only thing that went smoothly was a coffee at Chez Felix. Come for the drama, stay for the stone’s forwarding address (spoiler: there isn’t one).

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Visit to the ER 🇬🇧

Posted on September 18, 2026 by admin

An impromptu visit to A&E turns into a rather uncomfortable exercise in waiting, worrying and imagining the worst. What exactly happened, and why am I still saying “no comment… yet”? There’s a hospital, a suspected diagnosis, a few anxious hours and, eventually, a rather unexpected twist.

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