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Vers la porte. l’interrupteur vers la droite, 2 boutons, l’un relevé, l’autre baissé. Puis sur la droite le portemanteau, un vêtement de pluie. Il était déjà là quand je suis arrivée. Avec un sac à commission, un parapluie. Puis il y a les choses que j’ai suspendues. Mon manteau, vert. Mon bonnet et mon écharpe, […]
20h40. -22°c.
Dehors tout est noir, déjà.
Dedans, la lumière électrique.
Deux interrupteurs. L’un pour les éclairages de la cuisine, l’un pour les spots côté chambre. Deux zones, déterminées par l’électricité. Un circuit, dehors et dedans.
Les reflets sur le plancher.
Je parcours le studio. En deux étapes : dix enjambées de long, six de large… un peu plus de 60m2 ?
Sûrement deux fois plus haut que moi, environ de 3 mètres de haut ?
Six persiennes, cinq d’entre elles fermées, une remontée, la deuxième en partant de la gauche par rapport à la porte. La troisième […]
Je me réveille. La lumière est déjà franche : six fenêtres. deux au sud, quatre à l’est. Malgré les murs jaunes et orangés, la pièce est blanche. Par les persiennes, le ciel bleu. j’ai encore dormis en travers du lit, sa grandeur le permet. Un peu perplexe, je souris. Ah oui, je suis ici. C’est […]
Écrire. C’est le premier mot en haut à gauche sur la page du tableau de bord de mon blog, c’est aussi la première chose que j’ai apprise à faire avec un ordinateur. c’est drôle de dire “avec” un ordinateur, et pas sur mon ordinateur…
C’est donc ce que j’ai choisi de faire ici. une conversation avec […]

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(Générateur blanc, recherche)
Chaque jour à minuit, dans tous les fuseaux horaires, il est nécessaire de changer de date pour passer au jour suivant. Mais compte tenu de l’utilisation d’un méridien de référence pour ces fuseaux horaires, il existe également un méridien (méridien de 180° de longitude) où, quelle que soit l’heure, il est nécessaire lorsqu’on […]

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Il marche dans la neige. Un, puis deux traîneaux le dépassent.
Il met les mains sur ces oreilles.
Il arrive au centre de la ville.
On le sent angoissé. Plusieurs fois, il se retourne.
Il travers le pont en acier, se retourne à nouveau.
Encore une fois, il vérifie s’il est suivi : personne.
Un tram passe. Il est de […]

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The first day I arrived at the house, I was tired by my bus journey and went to bed early…
I was woken up at 3 o’clock in the morning by the flatmates I had not met: they banged on my door and i soon discovered that they were drunk. One was even more plastered and […]

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One night, we went dancing in Moseley, in a village near Edgbaston. I was really please, it was going to be a salsa night.
But once we arrived there, it seems I was the only one to be happy about it. No one was dancing… John gave me the explaination:
“we are not drunk enough”.

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My house was really dirty, and my flatmates even more.
On the first floor lived a gay couple. On their door you could read “beautiful people”.
By opposition, I assumed that we were the ugly and dirty people.

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While I was in England, he was thinking of me all the time:
He told me once: “every morning, when I get up, I hate you”

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There was that guy living in my house. Dave. He was the first guy I got chatty with and we got along well. One night the whole house went out, in a strange bar, with loads of gothic decorations on the walls. Students from the campus were hanging there. I found the place awful.
As the […]

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There was that guy living in my house. Paul. A boy from Liverpool who was trying to D-jay during the night and was sleeping during the day, or he would lie on the couch in the ground floor kitchen-living room, making the kitchen smell of his unwashed clothes. He was always eating cereals and they […]

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There was that other guy living in my house. Pete.
I think. A boy from Cheltenham. Everybody commented on how posh his accent was.
For me he was just the guy with the warm garlic breath.

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There was that guy living in my house. Simon. A Newcastle yob with a thick accent.
Once he wanted to go to the cinema. I suggested going to see the new Wim Wenders.
He said : Who?

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One Sunday, as the two of us were speaking quietly in the kitchen, Yan admired that he was spitting in Dave’s shampoo every time Dave was an arse. I laughed, looking astonished, opening big eyes then said:” no way, me too!!” We both burst out laughing.
From that moment on, I kept my shampoo in my […]

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On day, HE called on the phone landline, and Yan asked nosily, who’s that guy, he is you blockey? In my broken english, I heard “bollockey”. For the next few weeks, happy to have learnt a new word, I used “bollockey” as often as I could.

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Our house was a nice but old Victorian mansion, owned by a vicar. He would always come uninvited the day before the rent was due, then on the day. I thought it was really odd: why would he fear that we would not pay him, he was a vicar…

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Our house was cold and damp. In the shower you had one of these annoying hot water electrical heater. I had never seen anything like it before. It was never really hot, it was never powerful enough. I had the idea to ask the vicar if he could do something about it. He looked at […]

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One day, the heater in my room broke down and Yan and Mary told me they had to go to the vicar the next day: It was only 5 mns away from the house, they would show me where it was. On the way, they explained to me that he owned a few houses around […]

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In the spring, during the night, you could hear the baby foxes’ cries, it was like slaughtering a baby.

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The house kitchen was a big square room with a bow window on the huge beautiful messy garden. Looking outside was looking at every possible shades of green.
Inside, all was green too, and brown, and grey, and yellow.
A kitchen with plastic floor on one side of the room, and a living area on the other […]

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After a couple of months sharing the house with those 11 guys and one girl, I came to the conclusion that it was statistically impossible for British people to peel a potato without dropping more than 50 % of the peelings on the floor.
A very high ceiling, the downstairs bathroom was impossible to heat and remained freezing cold. Its grey-ish coat of paint gave it a grim look. One Monday, Yan, who was the most resourceful, and always had good ideas, took upon himself to buy some nice 70’s orange paint for the walls, and creamy white for […]
Toilette paper. Meeting somebody in the hallway with a toilet roll.. and you knew their destination.
One the house, I soon discovered, there was an unspoken rule about toilet paper: Buy some and leave it in the bathroom, and by the end of the day, it would have been used. Put a new one on […]
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