Goodbye la France

I'm Francesca Tereshkova, a British girl who washed up on the shores of France aboard a Eurolines bus in 1998. I came to France the day after I finished my University finals. I'm now 32 with two children. I married my Russian boyfriend (now 'hubski') in 2003. And I've learned as much about France as I need to know. In August 2006, I brought my family back 'home' to the UK. We're still adjusting... This is my story.

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Location: Formerly the Parisian suburbs, now the town of E., Darkest Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

I get perverse enjoyment from doing the opposite of what everyone else does. I wish I could stop but I can't. So when thousands of Frenchies were leaving France to find work and to make a better life in the UK, I chose to do exactly the opposite. That was in 1998. My French experience is unlike any I have read about in the vast Brit-in-France literary sub-genre. I have no French boyfriend or family, no country house. Dog poo has never inspired me to pick up a pen. I have recently given up on France ever changing, or me ever changing, and brought my family back to the strange new world that is England in 2006. This blog, part life-story, part diary, is my way of saying goodbye la France, and hello Angleterre (or in the Oxfordshire vernacular, 'Orwoight?').

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

News flash: I'm an idiot

Oh happy day when the penny drops. Here I was, battling paranoia over my barren, comment-free blog, when the answer (12 wonderful comments, 11 positive, and only 1 critical, and even that was a fair comment) was just a click away. Thank you for your comments, which are all now published, and yes, I am an idiot newbie who didn't know I'd set my blog to moderate comments rather than publish them straight away.

Thanks to Sarah Hague for taking the trouble to e-mail me to say that she'd sent comments, and where were they. I' m proud to say I got the hang of e-mailing several years ago. And now I've found the 'moderate comments' button, the sky's the limit as far as I'm concerned. I can see it all, a 'categories' links, links to other blogs, different colours, images even. Hold on to your seats folks.

One of the reasons why I didn't start my blog until April 2006 was because despite reading hundreds of articles about how easy blogging was, I somehow didn't believe that a technophobe like me could manage it. I would be bound to balls it up somehow.

How pleasant to be proved right yet again.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

So, where's the comments then? Don't think you've found the right button yet.

Didn't think I could be your only fan.

3:21 AM  
Blogger francesca tereshkova said...

For the comments, I refer to you the post 'You think its all over Zizou? It is now' plus 'How do I hate thee, let me count the ways' and to 'Letter from her Britannic Majesty Queen Elisabeth II to MAAF assurances.' And 'To those who are far from chez eux'

6:20 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't feel bad about the technophobia. I've been clicking your blog under my 'favorites' for about a month and I figured your had given up, moved and stopped working on the blog because it was never updated.. Turns out I had your June 30th entry as my favorite.

12:19 PM  
Blogger Sarah said...

Ah, I'm glad you got that sorted! Thanks for the plug and may your blog be blessed with a thousand comments...

6:35 AM  

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