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Less misrebulle now…..

17th October 2008 by Helena 13 Comments  

“Hi hope evrefing is fine and i hopes you are happy here evrefing is misrebulle,” Bea wrote to her best friend Manon yesterday. This morning though there is a feeling a little like Christmas in the air. In Rupert’s briefcase there is a contract. At 10 o’clock we have a meeting to exchange said contract for a key to our new home. This is the closest we have got to leaving the hotel. The only thing that can go wrong now is that the landlady disagrees with something in the contract. I don’t think I’ll be able to breathe as she reads it.

It is a beautiful villa, slightly out of the centre of town but close to the office and also close to the new Corniche, which is not as posh or beautiful as the one we know and love, but it’s still a corniche. There are three floors which we will need to find furniture for and a huge roof terrace where we can sit outside when the weather allows. As a friend pointed out last night; it’s too hot for many months.

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I have shopping lists buzzing around my brain; washing machine, fridge, soap, towels, beds, clothes hangers, tea-towels. I am trying to remember how big our bathroom is and how many of my products I can fit in there. I can’t believe that after almost five months on the road (we left Sainte Cecile in June) we may finally have a home to go to.

I hope we will all be less misrebulle come 10 o’clock……


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13 thoughts on Less misrebulle now.....

  • Fredrik says:
    17th October 2008 at 1:52 pm

    Jag håller tummarna !

  • Patricia says:
    17th October 2008 at 8:07 pm

    I really hope you get this house Helena!
    Are you guys going to move back to Europe eventually?

  • snusmormor says:
    17th October 2008 at 9:02 pm

    You look good there making the “happy bulle” and this is great news! I am holding my thumbs too as well as crossing my fingers!

  • Miller says:
    17th October 2008 at 9:32 pm

    Fingers are crossed – hope it helps!

  • helena says:
    18th October 2008 at 7:38 am

    Hello all – got it! All very happy, off to IKEA (obviously) to buy contents.
    HxPS Patricia to answer your question, yes eventually, but not for a while.

  • mihnas says:
    18th October 2008 at 8:02 am

    Congratulations !!

    Haa IKEA one of the best suedish invention !!

    I was so disapointed when I discovered that the closest one is 75km away from my place …. but somehow, my bank account is really happy ^^

  • Miller says:
    18th October 2008 at 9:58 am

    I trust there is suitable guest accommodation for The Godfather.

  • margaret says:
    18th October 2008 at 1:19 pm

    Marvellous!!

    xx

  • susie vereker says:
    18th October 2008 at 6:23 pm

    Congratulations! I felt for you having to spend so long in a hotel. A trailing spouse’s lot is not always an ‘appy one.

  • helena says:
    19th October 2008 at 9:09 am

    Thank you all…and Miller, you have your own room, bien sur!
    Hx

  • Miko says:
    19th October 2008 at 4:14 pm

    Ah ,finally! I am so happy for you. Lucky to yet again have an IKEA around the corner. I would kill for a tube of Kalles right now.

  • Heidi says:
    19th October 2008 at 7:58 pm

    Oh the lure of Ikea…. as I live quite near Lille (1hr) and whilst i’ve lived here a year i’ve not yet visited so I just may have to make it a priorty now you have made me nostalgic!

    Congratulations on finally finding somewhere you can call home.

    Perhaps now the misrebble will turn into evryfing gud!

  • Rosemary says:
    21st October 2008 at 4:20 pm

    Oh thank god at long last -well done you

    Love Lead Angel XX

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is also working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in spring 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

Bibliography

More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007

So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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