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*°*° LIFE UPDATES °*°*
Last week, I kept on the spring cleaning binge, this time with the kitchen. I began cleaning it from right to left, moving the fridge, cleaning the cupboard, putting in order everything I had in it (some of which I'd forgotten about...), giving away the micro-waves that we never use, some baking tins I never used and preparing the space for a new cupboard. Today, I'll move to the sink, what's under it, cleaning behind the dishwasher, cleaning the stove thoroughly in and out and behind, then installing a new backboard. I changed the kitchen rug. I think by the end of the month, I'll have cleaned and renovated the whole kitchen and I'm looking for someone to install a mural cupboard that has been hanging around... for years (the kitchen wall is tricky, I want someone experienced to do it). Procrastination was my name !
Crazy me full of energy is also taking up the 1000abs challenge issued by Cassey at Blogilates. If you don't hear from me this week, I'll simply be dead from exhaustion. Spring in winter is doing a trick on me !
I haven't been reading much this week, I haven't watched many things, just finished Gobelin (funny, romantic and esthetically beautiful) with my eldest daughter and started Hotel del Luna with her (weird, funny and esthetically beautiful), then watched I care a lot on Netflix with my partner (it was meh and I hated the music).
I learned on the radio that I was eligible for the vaccine, but each doctor in France is supposed to have received only 10 doses, my doctor is always hard to reach, so I guess I won't be vaccinated very soon and I hear there were some delivery problems. Of course. After a couple of days of rain and relative cold, we're heading back to sunshine and moderately warm ! Enjoy your week and take care :)
*°*° LAST WEEK °*°*
A fun prequel review
*°*° BOOKS READ °*°*
Admire that 1955 cover, I found this novel in a book box
*°*° CURRENTLY READING °*°*
Dear book buying ban, I've been a bad girl...
I simply couldn't resist it
I love her Youtube channel so I wanted to support her
- and get her written recipes ^^
*°*° ON YOUTUBE °*°*
Katie is having an E.M. Forster week - a series of short videos about his novels
Audiobook : an autobiography of Agatha Christie
Marissa talks about Mrs "my poor nerves" Bennett in Pride and Prejudice
I like the idea of having projects based on different authors and their books.
ReplyDeleteI have several running : Agatha Christie, the Brontës and Arthur Conan Doyle :)
DeleteSpring cleaning always leaves me feeling refreshed. There's something lovely about seeing everything in its spot, and seeing everything shiny and clean. Or maybe it's just me. I love to fold clothes and make up my bed, too.
ReplyDeleteI do hope you are able to get your vaccine. We've gotten our first vaccine rather unexpectedly, and it has helped my mood a lot.
Funny. You have only one review this week without cats in it!
Knitty Kitties. I can think of ten people who would enjoy that series.
Yes, it's like cleaning around you is like cleaning inside you, so to speak. I had a catty week =^.^= but I don't mind, I love cats. Enjoy your week ! Or what's left of it now that we're thursday ;)
DeleteI love your cover for The Travelling Cat Chronicles. I've received a beautiful hardback edition for my 40th birthday, but it has a black cat on the cover. Luckily I have a black and a white cat... I still haven't read the book though... My bad! Will take a look at your review now.
ReplyDeleteI loved Cards on the table! Good one hey!
I have a good week and I hope you won't be too exhausted.
Elza Reads
I had a different cover with the French edition, but I prefer this one, it's absolutely lovely :) Thanks Mareli !
DeleteYour Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie (to use the character and the author) have been in my thoughts lately too, along with Lord Peter Wimsey. In all the books, the meals -- especially breakfast -- have an interesting part to play, and that's wheat I've been following. I've been reading all three for years, looking for a variety of ideas.
ReplyDeletebe safe... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
I'm ashamed to say I've never read Dorothy Sayers (not yet !). I love Indian and Japanese literature too, they love food ^^
DeleteI never watch Book Tube, but will have to make an exception for Forster Week! I have read several of his books (especially loved Howards End) and would like to eventually read them all. Good luck with your spring cleaning... you are inspiring me!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to read them all too, I have Where angels fear to tread on my kindle :) My spring cleaning energy is slowly going down, along with the temperatures, lol !
DeleteI cannot believe the energy you have for cleaning your kitchen! I don't think I've ever moved my fridge and now I am afraid of what might be behind it. I have to get a new fridge soon so I guess I'll find out....
ReplyDeleteMy energy is depleting, but I haven't much left to do, fortunately ;) Believe me, I was afraid of what was under my fridge too !! Now, I feel better and my kitchen looks tidier and bigger, which is good ^^
DeleteI really need to do an indepth cleaning of my kitchen. It was one of the rooms I didn't get to while working from home last year (the back bedroom aka junk room was the other room I skipped). I hoping one day I can read and review a book in French. See what I read Girl Who Reads
ReplyDeleteI didn't get to the kitchen last year too, it was high time, and it makes me feel better now :) Bravo pour l'apprentissage du français !
DeleteExcellent progress on your spring cleaning. I've been doing a little of that myself, but really only surfaces and organizing. No movings of friges or stoves. LOL
ReplyDeleteThe temperature rise and the sun gave me superheroin powers ! I'm calming down, now, lol !
DeleteIt's warming up here too, although today- rain. Good luck on the challenge! And the vegan recipes and Christie's book look great.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the vaccine!
I think the Mrs. Bennett discussion is interesting, I only know her from the 2005 P&P.
I was too tired this week for the challenge, I may have overestimated myself ! I made some vegan chocolate truffles yesterday that were good, and an apple and chocolate cake this afternoon. Which may explain why I didn't find it hard to resist the abs challenge !
DeleteSounds like you got a lot done around the house this past week. Good luck with the abs challenge! I hope you hear something from your doctor soon about your vaccine. Supplies are short here too. I am glad you enjoyed The Travelling Cat Chronicles. I thought it was good too. I hope you enjoy your reading this week! Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy - I gave up the abs challenge (for now) but I do enjoy my readingsj !
DeleteTake Courage looks like a book I want to read. I like reading books about authors. My Sunday Salon post this week
ReplyDeleteTake courage was really, really good. I didn't always agree with the author but it was a passionate book about an overlooked yet talented author :)
DeleteI need to do some spring cleaning, too. I'm hoping to get some time to clean this week. Or perhaps I should say I hope to get some motivation to clean this week.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a good week!
My motivation is gone, maybe it went to your place, who knows ;) Thanks Yvonne !
DeleteAll that cleaning! I need to do the same really. Just pick a room and attack it.
ReplyDeleteTen doses per GP seems ridiculous. Ours is rolling out in 4 stages, and I’m in the last group so no idea when I’ll get mine.
Wishing you a great reading week
I agree completely, ridiculous is the word. Oh well, I'll have a lot of cleaning/redecorating done before I get it ! Thanks Shelleyrae, you too :)
DeleteI love Blogilates but I tend to stick to her easier beginners workouts! Good luck and have a great week!
ReplyDeleteThat's what I've come back too after the first exercise, lol ! Thanks Heather, you too :)
DeleteWay to go getting into the spring fever kitchen cleaning mode. Good luck with the ab challenge. Whew, you'll be working it hard. :)
ReplyDeleteNice little haul and great that you could support a favorite blogger through it. Fun vintage cover on that Agatha Christie.
Have a great week, Iza!
1000 abs, was I crazy ?! Cleaning is sports too, isn't it ? I'm sticking to my "normal" workout this week. Thanks Sophia !
DeleteYou seem so enthusiastic about your cleaning binge, why don't you come to my place and keep at it? Lol. It's a very small house.
ReplyDeleteLots of cats!! I'm starting a book by Soseki (I read several last year), and I just realized I never read his very first one, I am a Cat. Have you?
I'm glad you didn't resist buying this book. How could someone resist buying a Japanese book?
Hey, I still need to customize my bathroom and clean my desk :p I think I read Je suis un chat, but it was many years ago and I don't remember much. A good reason to pick it up again. I can't resist Japanese books, especially those edited by Philippe Picquier, their covers are so tempting my mouth almost waters watching them. Il y avait un présentoir spécial "nouvel an chinois" et une trentaine de romans, je n'en ai acheté qu'un - mais j'avais dit à ma fille de me retenir ;)
DeleteI will start spring cleaning soon! Good luck with getting the vaccine early.
ReplyDeleteSpring isn't there yet, you can take it slow until then ^^ Just a suggestion :D
Delete'm trying to do soon spring cleaning as well :) I'll check out Hotel del Luna sounds good!
ReplyDeleteI love Hotel del Luna so far, beautiful to look at and I love Jang Man-Wol, she's funny :)
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