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I loved loved loved this audio postcard. ♥️

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1) nap as often as necessary

2) read fiction

3) write

4) forest bathe as a family (translation: immerse in the quietude of trees)

5) take photos of my kids who are growing closer to not wanting to hang out with mom and dad

6) finish watching all the Star Wars series with my boy

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Yes yes yes to all of this! I love how it isn't remotely weather-dependent, either. Well, perhaps the forest part, but only slightly, for the brave.

I find it totally unreasonable that children grow up so fast and without warning on us. I'm not done with Orla being little yet, but apparently she has other ideas!

Hope you all have a beautiful summer together!

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I’m in the middle-near-southern part of Italy with my daughters. A different “girl trip”, if you will. Sun, sea, conversation, gelato, cappuccinos… it’s been wonderful. 🇮🇹🍋

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Oh that sounds heavenly! Soak it in

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I live in Tuscany and you’ve summed our summer!

Beautiful article!

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Spend a week in Bordeaux ☺️

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Right by me! The weather gods can do a two for one and make it sunny for us both!

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Here's hoping! I'll be there in a few weeks ☺️

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Ah! This is divine. Yes please can I be there with you to eat salty fries and pizza and swim and picnic and do nothing much but everything at the same time. Renovating trees - lol, love it. The smell of fresh tomatoes is actually the best.

Winter list here:

• get a fire pit going in our backyard

• host a Christmas in July party (we’re trying to start a new family tradition so we get to experience a wintery Christmas.)

• try and be less of a couch slug

• finish reading The Enchanted April

• go to Paris on Roblox

• probs join you in Insta Summer School too - that sounds like exactly what I need.

Love you

🤍

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All beautiful photos. I cannot choose a favourite! 😻

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Summers in France are the best. We always go to my mother-in-laws near Toulouse for a few weeks in August. Even though I often work while I am there, I come back to Paris in September so relaxed.

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Beautiful post. Thanks for sharing some vicarious summertime 😊

Here's my Auckland winter to-do list:

- Early morning yoga in front of the fire

- Turning on my office heater 2 hours before I arrive (by clever WiFi app my husband installed)

- Curling up under a blanket with two kitties and a good book

- Sleeping/napping as much as possible

- Warming foods - soup, dahl, roast chicken

- Full permission to go nowhere and do nothing social for several months

- Bracing walks by the ocean on crisp blue winter days

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These photos are just SO beautiful Sara. The watery ones especially.

I went for a swim in the North Sea for the first time EVER this week.

It just called. It was time.

Looking forward to listening to your postcard someday soon.

Happy summer, enjoy all the French bliss. ✨💫

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That all sounds wonderful Sara! I'll be recuperating after an accident. So, my garden and short walks into the village will be my summer.

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Such a lovely thing to listen to! Can't wait to join you for a little bit of that delicious time.... and it seems my cossie is the first thing I must pack! 💕

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Oh Sara, this made me so happy. I have very similar summers but instead of in France, I have them in northern Ontario Canada.

My sisters & our families all gather with our cousins on the shores of the lake that raised us. We swim & float all day, have drinks on the dock while we watch the sunset & then have a bonfire under the stars. I wouldn’t trade these days for anything in the world.

Ps your description of dripping honey has completely changed my mindset for hot summer days. I love it & will indulge!

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So good to talk to you recently, despite challenges with technology …

Wishing you a wonderful holiday in France. Dripping honey is such a beautifully apt description for the heat.

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I’ve never been to France, but how I’d love to go!!!

In Texas it is HOT and HUMID but we’ve got lovely rivers and lakes to swim in, local pools and sprinklers to help us cool off. I just finished my first solo show and although I’m itching to get back in the studio, I might ease into work with simple sketches and color play instead. We’re eating lots of fruit and enjoying our new garden that came with the new, old home we just bought!

Oh! And the kids and I get to have the company of my niece for 2 1/2 weeks starting today!

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Am also rejuvenating old fruit trees (and a sorely neglected 3.5 acre plot) just south of Poitiers. I'm missing friends yet as the building work has been slow to conclude. When did you decide that 'good enough to invite them' had arrived?!

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So dreamy ….off to look at houses for sale in France by a river !!

We’re in BC, and have a camping trip planned, with friends visiting from the UK, to Vancouver island where we’re going surfing and having beach days. Can’t wait!

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