Sorry to hear it’s all a bit bleh. Surely the scaffolding must come down soon! The lost suitcase business must be thoroughly tedious too. I thought of you and another person we know whose luggage disappeared in transit recently when we packed to come home. I photographed the half packed suitcases for a sort of record just in case. Because our layover was so long in China I was rather dubious that our suitcases, which we checked through for the whole journey, would reappear at the other end, but they did, thank goodness. Get yourself a good movie on DVD and watch it to cheer yourself up!
Fraussie
December 28th, 2012 at 8:58 am
Thanks! The scaffolding is still there and I can’t hear any activity so I think it might be there all weekend. There was too much wind to move it yesterday (they’ve set up a rail system to slide it over to the next set of windows). This is very out of character for me – I don’t get depressed easily. I’m glad your suitcases didn’t disappear! I’ll see what i can do about the DVD.
Conrad
December 28th, 2012 at 2:35 am
Hi
For SADD I take 1000UI of vitamin D per day from October to March since we have really short days then and the valley is very often cloudy especially Dec and January – seems to help.
Fraussie
December 28th, 2012 at 8:59 am
Hello, and thanks for commenting. The doctor gave me vitamin D recently, which I’m supposed to take every two weeks and I stupidly left it in Blois. I’ll have to get some more.
Lyn
December 28th, 2012 at 6:03 am
I really hope they come down today.
Fraussie
December 28th, 2012 at 9:00 am
Thanks, Lyn. We’ll see!
Fraussie
December 28th, 2012 at 9:59 am
Just received the bad news. It’s not moving until 7th January.
So well-written and evocative of that grey, lack-of-light (and lack of ‘light’ with that darn camping/shoe store and its maddening interactions) activities. My favourite part was the young waiter who shouted you the coffee in his commiseration! Yay Paris waiter 🙂
Hang in there – the days are getting longer. Yippee!
Fraussie
December 28th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Thank you Caroyn. It’s true, the days are getting longer now! The waiter wanted to give me dessert first then realised it was part of my set menu!
Jill
December 29th, 2012 at 1:20 am
Sorry to hear you are feeling a bit blue, but hopefully by the time this is read, that damned scaffolding is DOWN! I’m so glad you like my soap tho 🙂 Wishing you a much lighter New Year 🙂 xx
Fraussie
December 29th, 2012 at 10:36 am
Thanks Jill. The sad news is that it is now coming down (well, no exactly down – they slide it over to the next set of windows which means I’ll still have a certain amount of noise but the light won’t be blocked out). I put the little Eiffel Tower on the Christmas tree BTW.
Hello and happy new year to you.
We don’t know each other ( although, i’d love to meet you), but i came accross your blog while searching for comments on Au Vieux Campeur.
I am currently employed there and i wanted to offer my help. I used to work in the accounting office and i can assure you that if you know the date of your purchase and the amount you paid, the store or the office can print a duplicate receipt.
You probably had to deal with an inexperienced cashier, you should contact the accounting office at 01/53/10/48/55 or at caisses.paris@auvieuxcampeur.fr
I hope that it will be of help to you. I apologize for any errors as english is not my native language!
Fraussie
January 2nd, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Hello Aurelia and a happy new year to you too. How nice of you to offer your help! After I came home, I sent a letter addressed to the Au Vieux Camper shoe shop asking for a receipt for another pair of shoes and included a stamped addressed envelope as I thought, like you, that the casier was simply inexperienced. If I don’t hear back again by next week I’ll phone the number you gave me.
And you obviously speak excellent English because you didn’t make any mistakes at all!
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Sorry to hear it’s all a bit bleh. Surely the scaffolding must come down soon! The lost suitcase business must be thoroughly tedious too. I thought of you and another person we know whose luggage disappeared in transit recently when we packed to come home. I photographed the half packed suitcases for a sort of record just in case. Because our layover was so long in China I was rather dubious that our suitcases, which we checked through for the whole journey, would reappear at the other end, but they did, thank goodness. Get yourself a good movie on DVD and watch it to cheer yourself up!
Thanks! The scaffolding is still there and I can’t hear any activity so I think it might be there all weekend. There was too much wind to move it yesterday (they’ve set up a rail system to slide it over to the next set of windows). This is very out of character for me – I don’t get depressed easily. I’m glad your suitcases didn’t disappear! I’ll see what i can do about the DVD.
Hi
For SADD I take 1000UI of vitamin D per day from October to March since we have really short days then and the valley is very often cloudy especially Dec and January – seems to help.
Hello, and thanks for commenting. The doctor gave me vitamin D recently, which I’m supposed to take every two weeks and I stupidly left it in Blois. I’ll have to get some more.
I really hope they come down today.
Thanks, Lyn. We’ll see!
Just received the bad news. It’s not moving until 7th January.
So well-written and evocative of that grey, lack-of-light (and lack of ‘light’ with that darn camping/shoe store and its maddening interactions) activities. My favourite part was the young waiter who shouted you the coffee in his commiseration! Yay Paris waiter 🙂
Hang in there – the days are getting longer. Yippee!
Thank you Caroyn. It’s true, the days are getting longer now! The waiter wanted to give me dessert first then realised it was part of my set menu!
Sorry to hear you are feeling a bit blue, but hopefully by the time this is read, that damned scaffolding is DOWN! I’m so glad you like my soap tho 🙂 Wishing you a much lighter New Year 🙂 xx
Thanks Jill. The sad news is that it is now coming down (well, no exactly down – they slide it over to the next set of windows which means I’ll still have a certain amount of noise but the light won’t be blocked out). I put the little Eiffel Tower on the Christmas tree BTW.
Hello and happy new year to you.
We don’t know each other ( although, i’d love to meet you), but i came accross your blog while searching for comments on Au Vieux Campeur.
I am currently employed there and i wanted to offer my help. I used to work in the accounting office and i can assure you that if you know the date of your purchase and the amount you paid, the store or the office can print a duplicate receipt.
You probably had to deal with an inexperienced cashier, you should contact the accounting office at 01/53/10/48/55 or at caisses.paris@auvieuxcampeur.fr
I hope that it will be of help to you. I apologize for any errors as english is not my native language!
Hello Aurelia and a happy new year to you too. How nice of you to offer your help! After I came home, I sent a letter addressed to the Au Vieux Camper shoe shop asking for a receipt for another pair of shoes and included a stamped addressed envelope as I thought, like you, that the casier was simply inexperienced. If I don’t hear back again by next week I’ll phone the number you gave me.
And you obviously speak excellent English because you didn’t make any mistakes at all!
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Only a few more days Fraussie and then the scaffolding will be gone. Hang in there.
Thanks, Carina!
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