{"id":3535,"date":"2018-06-23T18:09:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T17:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2018-06-23T18:09:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T17:09:51","slug":"semigration-stocktake-1-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/semigration-stocktake-1-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Semigration stocktake 1 continued"},"content":{"rendered":"

That was a good diversion but I need a stocktake and I think I should finish it today.\u00a0 OK, the list from where I’d gotten to<\/a> before I hopped off for a ride was as follows.<\/p>\n

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  1. Get French residency by Brexit date 29.iii.19.<\/li>\n
  2. Get on towards French citizenship and EU rights for nuclear family.<\/li>\n
  3. Political statement about Brexit particularly but perhaps more generally.<\/li>\n
  4. Pleasure of living a bit over half the year in France.<\/li>\n
  5. Particular pleasures, for now, of living in Aime2000.<\/li>\n
  6. Calmer life enabling me to finish (including some start and finish) work aspirations.<\/li>\n
  7. A better balanced life (hm, the way I wrote that last time around was diagnosably conflicted and incoherent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, how’s it going?<\/p>\n

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    1. On course and at the moment I think that, though it’s going to be isolated a lot of the time, it’s really doable.<\/li>\n
    2. On the evidence of just two weeks I could see me extending this for five years and getting dual nationality\/citizenship. Heaven knows what will have happened to UK and EU politics by then but I want to do this.<\/li>\n
    3. Well it’s a pretty weird protest isn’t it? And it meant I wasn’t in the thousands marching in London today<\/a> as I would have been had I been home (yes, London and the UK is still “home” but, as when I used to spend half my week in Nottingham I think this will become “French home” or “Aime home” and London may become “London home”).\u00a0 At times on the Pelerinage 2016 cycle ride that started this my blog was a chance to speak out about so much I had bottled when still employed by the NHS; it may not be brave, but I think something of a ruminating, but angrily, thread is the public part of this protest.\u00a0 Onward!<\/li>\n
    4. Pleasure of living in France: tick!<\/li>\n
    5. Pleasure of living at 2000m in the French Alps: tick! Well, actually, those are a bit weird because this life up here is hardly ticking #4 though today was a glorious reminder of just what’s so good under #5: black redstart and wagtails immediately the wheels leave the building and clean air and country to revel in that very instant.\u00a0 In London the pollution is <\/em>horrible and I’d have to cycle further than my entire trip today before I hit real countryside. (Yes, I know London’s parks are wonderful and hooray for them, but it’s not the same.)\u00a0 However, I think that I’ll need to think more about #4. I am getting solid doses of French TV, mostly just washing over me as a background noise.\u00a0 When I come back in July I will start more seriously on my French and on reading and watching more about France (and Europe).<\/li>\n
    6. Obviously there’s no magic up here that makes work happen at super speed, and if I shoot off for a few hours cycling or spend time on ‘photos and blogging then I may end up with no more work time than I do in London.\u00a0 However, I do think things are steadier: cautious and early tick!<\/li>\n
    7. OK.\u00a0 I’m conflicted and ambivalent about this whole “work\/life balance” thing but today was good. Very, very early and cautious tick!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Enough for now: recheck in August some time Chris.<\/p>\n

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      That was a good diversion but I need a stocktake and I think I should finish it today.\u00a0 OK, the list from where I’d gotten to before I hopped off for a ride was as follows. Get French residency by Brexit date 29.iii.19. Get on towards French citizenship and EU rights for nuclear family. Political … Continue reading Semigration stocktake 1 continued<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3536,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}