Paris Mumsnetters? English? French?

[ParisMum]

Hi,
I'm English but as my nickname would suggest have been living in France for the past 5 years or so. Have a little girl aged 11 months and am currently enjoying being a stay at home mum but a little more grown up contact couldn't go a miss. Wondered whether any Mumsnetters out there might be in the Paris vicinity????

well let's find another date then
how about the following week??

great to meet you and your dd today beetle73
blossom2 - hope you're having some sweet dreams!

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I'm sorry to have missed the lunch today but really needed the sleep. DH got home from his appt at 12pm and i just handed him the girls and slept for 3 hrs. it was great!!

I'm free for last week in September - should we try the thursday or friday again??

I've heard there is a mussels & fries restuarant in convention and i'm a sucker for mussels. However i'm happy to go anywhere .... can i bring a couple of friends along too?? also english mums in paris.

Hi Parismum,
It was great to meet up. Thankfully we passed a dog just after we left you, and that was enough distraction to get madam into the pram.
Sorry not to have you with us Blossom. Hope you're refreshed.

MUCH more interesting than a pigeon, beetle73!!

how about the Thursday night for an evening meet up? I love mussels too Blossom2 but I think the restaurant you're talking about at Convention is the Leon de Bruxelles and I'm not a great fan of that chain....the mussels are frozen. God, I've been in France too long, getting that demanding about my food

I think that the moules et frites place in Convention is Leon de Bruxelles. My husband would live there if they let him. As a veggie, I have the Farmers Salad without the chicken and each time they just LOOK at me! Sigh.

But it's a pleasant enough chain of restos, and I'm assured that the moules are very good.

Hi everyone .... still exhausted but its getting better. Got my lovely in-laws here from friday until next tuesday - really not looking forward to it as they don't give me & DH any time alone and are afraid of handling their grandchildren..... (sorry for the gripe, just got off the phone with them)...

Anyway, so is next thursday good for everyone?? i don't mind where we go really. Any other suggestions on restuarants??

hi blossom2,
fancy a coffee at mine one morning this week...before the onslaught of the dreaded in-laws

sorry to put the cat amongst the pigeons. I won't be around next week - off house-hunting in Nice - so have a fab time on Thursday and I'll hope to join in the next Paris meet-up.

blossom2, you are a very very evil person....you left me with 3 tonnes of patisserie and am gradually working my way through it. may never get out of the flat again

I'm fairly new to this - wish I'd found out about it 2 years ago when arrived in Angers! Hi to all.

hi Dillon
are you still in Angers? my dp is from a tiny village near Angers so we're there visiting his family from time to time.

Yep still here! Unfortunately the thinnest women on the planet seem to inhabit this town but you can't have everything I suppose.

Can I just talk about how awful Star Academy is? I mean transfixingly terrible. Every time we watch it (not that often, honestly), we're just gobsmacked and gripped by the dreadfulness of it.
I think the best so far has been the couple singing to each other in a horse-drawn carriage (with the horse man standing on stage like a wally), but this evening's Crazy Frog dance was also spectacular.
Apologies to those of you who've married into French popular culture!

oh god, don't get me started on French TV. Seriously thinking about finding a way of receiving telly from Blighty when we move further south. Do any of you have it?

we suffered one year of french tv - mostly for the total immersion into language but there is a limit! Bought a freeview top box and small dish locally and chap came along installed and tuned it all in, one off cost of 350euros. Can receive BBC 1,2,3,4 and ITV 3 plus a whole host of other news channels in various languages and other odd things. Its enough. We didn't want to go down the satellite tv/cable route and have monthly fee. I thought ds and dd would be glued to the box, but after living without it for a year they are now very selective with their viewing!

I find french tv far higher quality than english...there is less of the mind-numbingly glitzy horrible camp crap on the whole

what about la ferme? and bootcamp? easily on par with uk and bbc has some great old b&w french films with english subtitles sometimes! selective viewing from both sides of the channel is the only answer. I was horrified when I discovered daytime viewing consisted of old 70s and 80s uk/us programmes badly dubbed into french. My language teacher told me to listen/watch radio/tv for at least 2 hours a day to get an ear for the sound of the language. It was pretty grim.

oh come on Nighty Night - French fiction is PANTS.
However they do redeem themselves with some pretty good documentary programmes - particularly on France5

dillon,
thanks for the freeview top box info - I may well be getting me one of those

yes, I suspect you have a point about the fiction. I never watch it!
its the documentaries, news type programs etc that I usually watch. Love German tv too, especially at Christmas! and have watched some interesting stuff on Turkish tv that would have been even better if I spoke Turkish.

NN - I owe you an email......

dont worry hhh, I couldnt bear a correspondence grudge against anyone who has even more children than I do!