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.


Friday, 13 January 2017

live every day

As we get older it becomes part of life to lose people close to us.

We expect to have to face to death of parents, aunts and uncles. But sooner or later it is the turn of our own generation to bow out. This week one of our English friends here (yes we do have a few) died leaving us all feeling rather stunned. He was one of the founders of folk'n'jazz and he and TC had become quite good friends over the last couple of years as a result of singing and playing music together. A few years older than us but not many and no one would have expected him to die young, until very recently he had always seemed fit and energetic. He will be much missed and remembered with affection by many.



RIP John Taylor


A lesson to learn - you never know when your time will come - don't waste your life, get on and live it to the full and value your time with family and friends while you can.