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Read a Good Book This Weekend – Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson

2026-10-04

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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart Book Review

2026-05-02

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Baby It’s cold outside – even for ducks here at PumpjackPiddlewick

2026-01-12

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Alice in France – Read a Good Book This Weekend with PumpjackPiddlewick

2024-09-23

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Wine and War plus the Lost Vintage book reviews at PumpjackPiddlewick

2023-07-10

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I’m Alycea, shop owner and writer here at Pumpjack & Piddlewick. I'm creating a whole new life in France.
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More French Findings

Only in France is something expats say a lot, but really it is simply cultural differences. We explore some of thoses here at PumpjackPiddlewick

Only in France

Life in France is all about adopting, adapting and sometimes ignoring cultural differences we explain here at PumpjackPiddlewick

Life in France: Adopt, Adapt… or Just Ignore?

The French stare a lot. But why? We look into the variations of their stare and why they do it here at PumpjackPiddlewick

The French Stare (They certainly do)

There are police in France and there are Gendarmerie. So what is the difference we ask here at PumpjackPiddlewick

The Police in France

Making friends in France is hard. But why is that? We delve into here at PumpjackPiddlewick

Making Friends in France

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