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cut it off! | 20 octobre 2008

The neighbours are driving me crazy. Well, the neighbours in the building or the restaurants all around the block or maybe both. Its clear we are in France, people are cooking ALL the time! And not some just scandinavian dishes like smorrebrod, cold sandwiches, smoked salmon or "hafragraut" for lunch, that is things that dont smell - at least not into other peoples appartements. No, here it has to be some roastbeef with onions and carrots, or roasted chicken or lamb curry.. I could probably guess the menu of the week just by SMELLING it. Even on sundays when the local brasserie is closed - then its the grandma on the other side of the corridor making lunch for 4, starting half past ten in the morning. Or the little old lady next door making butter chicken... who knew butter had such a strong smell? She should beware of too fatty foods actually that old one. (A few nights ago we heard her almost choking in her sleep- making strange sounds and screaming at 4 in the morning. I was out in the corridor in my bathrobe ready to check up on her when I realised by the rythm of her breathing that she was fast asleep. And since then she has reappeared alive luckely.) I should be happy though that we are not in a spicy country like India or China.

Why am I so annoyed by these smells? Maybe its because they make me nauseaous... and I know its part of the wonderful pregnancy cycle (even the lady next to me at the doctors smelled weird, of coffee and I swear cigarettes - and when I asked her about her belly she was 5 and a half months pregnant! shame on you!). But perhaps its also because we cannot cook whatever we fancy ourselves. For weeks now the heating plates in our living room that pass for a kitchen have not been working properly. We bought new ones and thought rather naively that now we could cook two things at the same time, lets say pasta and sauce. But little did we know that it would take around 45 minutes to get the water boiling and that the heat does not stay on. I have started to cook now around four o clock in the afternoon so we can eat around 8. Is that really what you want to do to a pregnant woman? Really? Think again and in the meanwhile you nasty neighbours - Cut it off!

Publié par Kolka à 12:33:36 dans Miss baby blabla | Commentaires (0) | Permaliens