Firstly..
PORRIDGE
Haha I don't know why I take so many photos of my porridge, it never looks remotely appealing. It's like when you have an ugly kid but you think they're super cute so you take constant pictures of them. But they never get any cuter...
That's me and porridge.
It's an irrevocable love.
In the staff room at school there's been a continually-running video of how to barricade you and your students inside your classroom in case of a terror attack.
It's kinda like having mood-setting music playing in the background, but this one sets a pretty unsettling mood..
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| That's the video playing, but you can't really see it. |
The sun looked real red and hazy on the train home from school:
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| trippy shot |
Continuing with the artistic-shot-theme, here is a close up of some pasta I made:
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| Little lemon tart from local bakery |
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| Baked some cookies in my mini oven - no that's not a grease spot from a cookie I ate.. |
Had dinner at Solveig's with the gals and her flatmate:
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| Speculoos spread on a cookie - HEAVEN |
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| I am FEELING this speculoos/cookie combo |
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| Me and Solveig enjoying the delish cookie spread |
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| Me about to go for a run, running on speculoos fuel |
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| Split paths.. |
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| Tried to make wraps with crepes |
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| Did not work |
A few snaps from Lille:
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| Norwegian oreos - defs not as tasty as the og |
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| Selfie in the street |
Went inside the Lille cathedral:
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| Our gourmandises - Solveig's is a chocolate cake and mine is a speculoos cheesecake |
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| Bants with the beffroi |
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| Climbed up the town hall's bell tower for the following sweet views |
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| La Porte de Paris - Lille's arc de triomphe |
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| Smizing up high |
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| Tried to take a candid pic of me and Solveig enjoying the view |
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| A portion of Lille from above |
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| Lover's Lane, Lille |
Solveig and I bought each other a macaron:
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| Mine was speculoos (of course) and hers was spiced (chai I think?) |
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| Sweet temp tatts I'm gonna rock #NZPride |
Went to a pretty chill party/kickback chez some american assistants.
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| Apparently I was looking too grumpy so Solveig literally made me smile |
Someone had glasses so of course there was the classic "everyone try on his glasses lol":
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| Friendship foto wall (not all friends included obvi lmao) |
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| Deal with this on the daily - thank god I have now been informed of the dinosaur game :) |
So, off to the cafe it is for me, to suck up as much free wifi as possible.
But this isn't so bad when the cafe has nutella-swirled muffins:
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| Cruisin' and werkin' |
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| Standard scene - me and my fresh ass baguette |
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| The beaut Parc de la Rhônelle as seen from my window |
It's a lurvely place to wander/ponder/read. Found a good possie:
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| My building from the park |
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| Shout out to the #1 fan Janine for understanding and fueling my addiction |
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| Sunny afternoon shot, walking home from somewhere |
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| My door |
Honestly, bread + cheese + honey is my new fave combo. Underrated for sure.
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Classic Valenciennes, wet & grey.
But I luh it |
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| I said that I love speculoos so Solveig bought me some speculoos |
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| I said that I wanted a waffle so my friend Shadi went and got me a waffle #blessed |
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| Look how beautiful and autumnal the park is |
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| My ladybug friend |
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| Felafel and other stuff salad |
Yeah, when there's felafel involved, listing the other ingredients is rather redundant right?
It was José's bday so I bought him a cake/brownie to celebrate:
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| Very nice in my opinion, I assume he appreciated it |
Ok, so clearly I like to take a whole heap of random photos, which take up a lot of blog space. So, my next few blogs will mostly just be photos of trips I've been on, probably with few words! Otherwise I will never do them and I won't have this precious online diary to look back on.
Cool, will write one on Paris now, ciao ciao!
Madeleine
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