aici sén pla: February 2016

Aici sèn pla

This blog started as a daily record to mark our fifth year at Segala. Daily it did not turn out to be but after the year I have decided to continue as an occasional diary - after all I do still like it here or "aici sen pla".

Its our fifth year living at Segala. I have decided to try to mark this year with a daily post ( some days it will be just a photo) of our life over the year. I have trawled my brain for witty titles without success then I remembered the slogan on the T shirts at the fête in Espinas in the summer.

A friend translated it from the occitan for us. It seems to mean something along the lines of I like it here. Very apt for us, "I like it here " is a refrain we use to each other at least daily so that's the plan - Aici sén pla - a year of daily musings from a contented retired expat who thinks herself damned lucky every single day.

Sunday, 14 February 2016

all is not lost

New computer - scary times - it took our local computer geek a morning to set up, after that 15 hours to download and install the upgrade to windows 10 ( had to do that quickly before we got used to windows 8) and then a couple of hours this morning to access my blogger dashboard - very confusing all these "accounts" etc. I wonder how many new windows systems our aging brains will be able to cope with. I think both of us think we've aged a few years in the last couple of days.

Anyway all is sorted, my toolbar is filling up with useful links again and the computer itself - well it really is great to have a machine which is not screaming ( yes literally) for mercy every time its switched on.

In other news still it rains - no snow this winter but so much water - the mild winter has meant everything is early this year and it won't be long before the garden is ablaze with daffodils. Every day this week has seen more opening. Spring can't come quick enough for me !