La Vie en Rose
Our friends Michelle and Roy sold their house in Norfolk and moved to France at the end of last year. I'm thinking of setting up a blog so that all their UK friends can easily keep in touch. Here is the email I sent as an experiment, simultaneously posting on my blogsite and sending as conventional email, to see whether the idea can be workable, what it looks like, feels like etc..
" Hi Michelle and Roy
Nice to hear from you, and really good news that we'll soon see you again next door! I know you sent this a few days ago, but Naomi doesn't always forward your mails to my email address. Maybe you could include my own email address (this one) in your email circulation list for messages from France!
I guess you know that we'll be around that weekend and so can fit in with you and your plans.
We're off to the Theatre Royal tonight - our annual pilgrimage to see the Richard Alston dance company. Not sure exactly who's going as Chris has organised the booking this time.
By the way did, you enquire of me about the identity of a bird in an earlier email? I didn't see that one yet either although N did mention it. I'll try to remember to ask her to find it for me so I can respond.
Looking back through some of your earlier emails, they tell a wonderful story. I wonder if you've considered setting up a weblog to record the progress of your French life. That way, you could post your blog to everyone, include pictures and other images and have another creative (and free) way to communicate with us all.
I'm an enthusiast as my blogsite is two days old (you can view it at this link below):
http://pauljosephandrew.blogspot.com/
I found it fairly easy to set up (and I don't regard myself as very web-literate), and I'm enjoying playing around with it. Alternatively, if you didn't want to set up your own blog, I'd could start a theme in my blog for communcating with you.
I'll add a bit to my blog to see what it might look like. I can always take it down again if it seems too naff!
Much love
Paul
posted by Paul Levy @ 10:52 am
1 Comments:
Very interesting to see your blog, not quite sure I understand all its ramifications at this stage but will apply remaining grey cells over the next while to consider it more fully (or them?)
Roy is planning to send you a wildlife e mail later, hopefully with some of the pictures he's managed to take, but don't want to steal his thunder on that one.
Loved your profile and blog so far.
Its like spring here today too, quite chilly but daffodils out and the birds are very active.
We're looking forward to seeing everyone, even though we wont have very much time.
We're moving down to Gorre the week before we come back, to the world's smallest gite, I kid you not!!! but we can walk/cycle to the barns from there, thighs allowing, its all uphill, no comfy Norfolk undulations there.
Just been looking at fruit canes and some great olive trees at the local brico/bati/jardi, not bad for that kind of place, but we have it on good report that there are 4 nurseries/garden centres near us in the Limousin, cant wait, also desperate to get out in the garden. We're planning a pond in the far corner where there is a spring near the surface. Been looking at books and getting some ideas for it. Must have another look at yours when we come, you're bound to have done a great job!
Well see you in a few weeks,
bye
michelle
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