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• That was the week…. (56)
  • Keith Eckstein: Emma Thanks for the comment – following detailed and in-depth discussions with the government (the soon to be ex-government) I have been persuaded to cease updating garlic (apparently it gives the world the wrong impression of France – people are beginning to think of it as a country...
  • Emmy: Keith I’m sorry to hear that you will no longer be spreading the garlic breathe. It really has been a great source for all us expats in France and I totally support you in your wish to move on and to concentrate on other things. Good luck with your new advetures and contining existing ventures with more...
  • Perry Taylor: Dear Keith, shows how long ago it is since I last had a taste of garlic. I’m so sorry to hear about your father. I lost my dad this time last year and although we were never really close and we’d had time to talk stuff through, it still leaves a big hole in you. Your blog brought so much...
  • tgrace: Dear Keith How very sad about your pa, my sincere sympathies. I found you and this wonderful blog just this morn. …thanks to another wonderful blog and book I found last week (Tout Sweet) I think I should have enjoyed your blog very much, I will frequent it for the next 11 months or so…Take care...
  • Olga Kotova: I will miss you! I am sorry about the loss of your father. Best wishes for you and your family.
  • Gigi: Oh Keith, we’ll all miss you! So sorry you’re finding life difficult at the moment but – and I know maybe this doesn’t mean much at the moment but – it will get better (because I know it does!). In the meantime, take care of yourself and your lovely family…xxx PS Who’s...
  • Ashley Davidson-Fisher: Hi Keith, I will surely miss the fun of reading your Tuesday posts. In the short time that I have become acquainted with your site, I have love it! It gave me such a laugh each week and I always looked forward to Tuesdays for that reason. I am so sorry about the loss of your dad. I wish many...
  • Jilly Bennett: Keith, I’m so sorry to read of your father’s passing and how badly it has affected you. You are obviously at a crossroads in your life and need to prioritize. I always think that an end of something is the beginning of something else. That’s how we grow. Am so sorry tho. Your blog is...
  • Peggy: I will miss you!!! Take care and best of luck to you and your family.
  • Carolyn: I too have enjoyed your blog. Congratulations on its well-deserved success these past two years. Having lost my father just over a year ago, I so relate to your grief — and that some of it is surprisingly unanticipated — and to your other time-related pressures. Take care and best wishes for the...
  • Nadia Read - The French life: Thats so sad that you want to end your blog but all the best on your new adventures and endeavours!
  • laura: I am so sad to hear/read this. I love your blog and Tuesday’s That Was The Weeks are something I always look forward to (and hope that I’ll get one of your awesomely hilarious awards). I’m so sorry about your Dad. I can’t imagine what it’s like to loose a parents. I completely...
  • Janet: Keith your wonderful website and blog listings have been for me a window on a fabulous world of fellow francophiles and you will be missed. I know what it is like to mourn a father so you have my sympathy. It does get easier eventually but never as fast as we would like it to.
  • Anji: I’m sorry that you’ve had to write this post. Thank you for all of the work you’ve done – bringing us all together like this. take care.
  • Paris Karin (an alien parisienne): P.S. ” for beginning a wonderful archive of Paris-related blogs…” I meant to write “Paris and France-related blogs.” Goes to show how Parisienne I have become, eh? LOL.
  • Paris Karin (an alien parisienne): Look at all the wonderful love here! So many people who have enjoyed the site and all the hard work you have done on it. As for me, what shall I say? I think, first and foremost, I TOTALLY GET IT. And I actually applaud your having the clarity to know it is “time” and...
  • Lesley: I’ll miss you.
  • Eva: Hi Keith! So very sorry to hear about your father. Very sad that you do not have the time and energy to continue this lovely and fun site; but you have all my respect. Life is about making choices and sometimes not chosing is the worst choice. I still have a faint hope that someone will carry on your...
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  • Life with Lizzi: Hi Keith, Great to have stumbled on your blog and read about your enlightenment! I have half moved (long holidays only at the moment) to Brittany. We have a beach house http://thebeachhousefrance.wor dpress.com which one day will become a permanent home for us. In the meantime we live our second...
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  • Alan Waterman: Hello, Well you are a bit inspirational, two years and all thoes visits in one day! I started a blog last Autumn but only really i ernest this year. It is http://poitoucharentsinphotos. wordpress.com please have a look, tell me what I am doin right and what I am doing wrong and most important how do I...

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