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Today is the first day of the déconfinement. Déconfinement is the French word used to describe the period after Corvid-19 lockdown. Do you know the English word equivalent for Déconfinement? Please drop me a text if you do. I was stumbled by my students when they asked me for the English word. After poring through …
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What types of relationships do you have with your neighbours? In this episode, I am going to talk about my neighbours. Our upstairs neighbours, have been a source of noise nuisance since last October, and the situation has gotten worse during the lockdown. How would you deal with this kind of neighbours? Quels types de …
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In the last episode, I told you about a new routine that I have picked since the start of the lockdown in France. It’s indoor bike training. I am training 5 times a week on my bike, based on a 6-week training plan from Zwift, a virtual training application for runners and cyclists. In this episode, I …
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What’s keeping you sane during the lockdown period? For me, it’s the 30 hours and 610km of virtual indoor bike training with Zwift, and of course, the buckets of sweat over the last six weeks.In this episode and the following one, I am sharing with you my virtual cycling adventure that I have embarked on. …
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In this episode, I want to speak about food. I want to gripe about the tons of food photos my friends from Singapore have been posting on Facebook in the past three weeks, since the lockdown in Singapore. I want to ramble on about the different dishes from Singapore. I want to tell you that …
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In Episodes 1 and 2, I mentioned about my low productivity regarding the list of things I have planned to do during the first month of lockdown in France and that I have experienced feelings of guilt and failure. I shared with you two newspaper articles countering the fad of achieving productivity during these trying …
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Nowadays, “productive” seems to be a buzz word. Have a quick look at the social network, and you can see that the Internet is proliferating with ideas on how to stay productive during the lockdown. Are you one of those super productive people, or are you like me, after 31 days of lockdown, there is …
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My first podcast. 31 days have passed since the French government decided on the quasi complete lockdown of the nation. I have lots of goals set up to achieve during this period; yet, a month later, I don’t feel like I have achieved much. And you? Are you confined as well? Are you more productive …
8th day of coronavirus lockdown in France. It is also my rest day, according to Zwift, the virtual training plan for cycling and running. For the past five days, I was virtually weaving through the streets of Yorkshire, UK, and then Innsbruck, Austria. My last stop was in New. York, USA before returning to France …
On the evening of 12 March 2020, French residents were anxiously anticipating the Presidential televised speech at 20h00. The coronavirus situation in Europe was getting increasingly serious. It had come to a point where the French government had to undertake measures to slow down the spread of virus, following in the footsteps of Italy which …