开云体育Fabulous to hear from you, Nilda. I’ve been enjoying your Facebook posts all summer: trip, puppy, daughters, Brittany. Has brightened my life no end. Hope you are reunited with? canine sooner rather than later. It sounds as though you have really worked out what will be good for you and made it happen. ? It’s been a? long, hard, summer here with both parents failing dramatically and in different ways. I get so much pleasure from hearing how friends are getting along. ? I too am teaching this academic year – postgrads at University of Strathclyde. Distance learning fortunately. DD2 finished her two years in Scottish vet hospitals and is taking a few weeks break while looking for the next step. So hope to see a bit more of her for a while. ? I didn’t get out to Geneva to see DH between September and July (he came here instead) but was out for three weeks in July and another ten days in August. Lots of mountain trips. It was still very quiet there as few tourists, but then the first Americans came back and it started to liven up again. ? Hope everyone is finding a way of carrying on which works for them as we go into another winter sure to be full of surprises. Jenny ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Nilda
Sent: 26 September 2021 17:05 To: [email protected] Subject: [yarnmongers] France again! ? Hi there, Just popping in to say I'm back in Brittany, teaching in Paris once a week in person. I feel like I've been on the road for the last month, well, because I have been. Took Amalie back to school in California, driving cross country with Marina and the pup, and it was great even if tiring. Got to see some dear friends on the way (like dating back to grade school and high school), and fell in love with Santa Fe. It was so good to see my brother and his family with the girls, as we haven't all been together since 2017. When I got back, I turned around the apartment for the sublettor, tried to get my puppy's papers set to bring her (which at the last minute didn't work), and somehow made it back. My computer crashed in Paris, a few days before I was supposed to teach my first class in person, and Apple support and I spent hours together.? ? But somehow it's working out. I think I've figured out my logistics for the rest of the semester between trains and rental cars and hotels (sort of). It's really good to be back in the classroom, and my students are engaged and smart. It's really good to see colleagues again.? I've discovered that I much prefer staying in a hotel for the 24-36 hours I've got to be in the city. The house - not bad after being vacant for 14 months. Loads of spider webs, but hey, no flies or mosquitoes. Aired out the mustiness. I've joined a Breton dance class in a?community center nearby, and didn't embarrass?myself my first time out.? I forgot how much yarn I already had here. Oy.? Paris is lively as before, and that's reassuring. Things here feel more normal than they did in NY. The Covid rates are pretty low where I am in the boonies, and while people are complaining about the pass sanitaire and there are anti-vaxxers, it doesn't feel as vicious as in the states.? Anyway, good luck on the closing, Connie, and to all of you on your projects. xoxoNilda |
