I have visited many places on my own. I would never have believed I could just get up and go like that. I have been in many sticky situations during my stay in these places. But always been fine.
I got on a wrong plane whilst on a business trip in China, not being able to decipher the writing on the information boards and I was turned back from the door of the right plane because a hurricane was just about to hit the destination airport. It was a mess. I got to where I needed to go in the end.
My children really want to go to Disney Land in Paris, whilst Jules really wants to go to Parc Asterix. I want to go to La Drougerie and buy buttons.
I am considering making a tipi from scratch.
We have discussed the idea of living without going to the supermarket ever again. Even though I think we could live without toilet paper, Jules says he has had to do that too many times in his life already and would prefer that his hard earned cash be spent on some of ‘life’s little luxuries’.
I swallowed a marble when I was six. It came out the other end a few days later. I have to bite my tongue when I see Bubble put marbles in her mouth now.
I lived in the same street all my life, but in two different houses. My mother had her eye on her ‘dream house’ up the road for a long time. Finally, we got to buy it when it came up for sale when I was seven. She is still there and I think will be until she dies.
I have a half brother from my father’s first marriage. I only found out about him and the marriage ten years ago. I have never met him and probably never will.
My sister did the post-production on all the Harry Potter films. She got to work on ‘compositing in’ a new wand for Harry in one of the films. She now is trying her hand at screen writing.
Did I say that I spend most of my time in my pyjamas?
I use to be known as ‘the girl who makes the pancakes’ when I was a student.
I was a vegetarian for twelve years until I met Jules, he told me I looked like I needed a steak. I agreed. Our first date was at TGI Fridays.
I love the names Nell, Liesl (from the S0und of Music) or Kate for a girl, Rex, Felix or Woody for a boy.
We decided on my 40th birthday to stop at two children.
I had a phobia of phones for a very long time. We were never allowed to answer the phone at home when we were young. I therefore grew up with a fear of them. When I was at college and twenty-one, I had to get my tutor to phone up and order some materials for me, because I couldn’t do it myself.
I hate mobile phones even now and I hate texting, but I would rather text someone than speak to them on the phone. I hate the idea that people think they can talk to me whenever they want to. I often leave my mobile switched off in the drawer.
I spent many summers in a caravan. Even though I didn’t like it much at the time, I look back on it now with fond memories. I have a particularly strong recall of the smell of the gas lamp being lit, UHT milk on our cornflakes in the morning and tinned potatoes.
I talk regularly to two or three people whom I know solely over the internet. I would class them as being ‘soul mates’.
Although I have never really planned what I was going to do the next week, let alone the next year, I am totally ready and able to change my life at a moment’s notice. The world is my oyster. It is very likely that it will change too. I like it that way.
(go onto read about the places I have called home)
Bravo, Lune! I so enjoyed reading your 100 things, lots of juicy details. And it’s funny, of all the fascinating things you wrote, the one thing that shocked me the most was that you don’t own a pair of jeans!!!
Also, I clicked through to Jo’s blog (via one of her comments) and read what she wrote about your blog & book-to-be. I want to echo what she said. You are such a bright light in this world, inspiring us with your musings, experiments and successes. You’ve had quite an impact on my attitudes about parenting, consumerism, health, spirituality… I would definitely buy your book – and copies for my friends!
BTW, have you written a blog post exclusively on “slow living” and the story behind your move to France? I know I’ve read bits and pieces, but can’t remember if you have a post exclusively dedicated to that decision. I just learned about the slow movement this week because there’s a slow food event going on in san francisco. (I used SlowTravel.com to rent an apartment in Italy last year, but had no idea what the hell ‘slow travel’ meant.) I’m slowly working my way toward the slow life. The mountains are calling me. I hear them beckoning…
Hey Nyla,
I haven’t done a post on slow living specifically, because I didn’t realise I was doing it until recently, it was only when I started reading ‘These days in french life’ that I thought, hey, I am living a slow life man…..
I am a vary superstitious supermarket consumer……i.e. I hate going there, I purchase all my food through local producers except things like rice etc. and we consume very little in the way of consumer goods. I struggled with dOH’s purchase of a mobile phone for me, I still don’t use it that often.
I am tempted to write a post on it, considering I have slow living now in the title on this blog.
Let me have a think……you will see a post on slow living and how I got here coming up real soon,
WOW, the mountains are calling you, I am so excited for you. Come live with us here Nyla, I would love to spend some chilled evenings chatting about stuff with you!!!!!
p.s. do you own a pair of jeans, I guess every American owns a pair right??
x
I, too, would love to read something of how you got from there to here!
OK you got it – post coming soon!!!!
I’ve always wanted to read more on your blog, but, like you apparently (ha), I get excited and pulled in so many directions… Anyway, just now took the time to read your 100 things, and marveled, as always, how alike we are (Libras) in many ways (and, of course, at all your amazing life experiences) and yet there are these interestingly opposite things too.
Funnily enough, the first thing that comes to mind is the toilet paper issue, lol I have a horror of being without it, and so I keep a LARGE (12 roll, mega-sheet) package of it on hand, always — okay, usually two of those packages, ha
And I could not live without denim, love my jeans, and jean shirts, jean jackets (my jean-jacket collection is up to about 6, I think). One of the wonderful things about my current job, I can wear jeans every day — instead of those horrid panty hose I used to have to wear to office jobs. *shudders*
Same with you on the phone, I almost never answer it, and for the same reason as you. Not a fear of the phone, but being determined not to be a slave to it, or allowing it to interrupt my life as it pleases :) Have never really owned a cell phone and can’t even grasp the concept of, or fascination with, “texting.”
Oh, ironing. I loathe ironing, I’ll put it off to the last minute. On the other hand (did ya’ know that’s a fav Libra phrase? hee), I must be “pressed.” I think it’s a spin-off of my great-grandmother telling me as a kid that I should never be ashamed as long as I’m clean and “pressed.”
Me too with the desire to look out for the underdogs of the world, definitely considered a “weird” one, hehe Good at sports, but didn’t apply myself (to much of anything) as a kid… Not really bullied (was kind of tomboy) so much as…well, very strangely, I had these mobs of kids that wanted to pounce on me (both grade school and high school),lol Seriously, several times during my youth, they would gather in large groups to jump me. I think I have this very unintentional intimidating energy about me (despite being just a lil red-haired girl), just one kid didn’t usually have the balls to take me on, heh. I feel now it’s all that Owl and Crow energy, lol ;)
Anyway, would be fun to respond to so much more, Lulu, but gotta pull myself away from computer-ville, start my day, have breakfast…do something productive and all ;)
Hugs,
Dove