After upping our lives and moving country to live in Grenoble in August we've now been here for five months. I am studying French and looking for a new job. Marion started her new job and our children started International school. It would be a lie to say that everything is perfect but living here in the heart of the french alps we have just to look at the horizon or take a short car journey and be in the middle of nature.

Learning

Currently learning French. I am now having weekly French conversation 1-2-1 lessons. Suplementing this is my continued Duolingo use. I've just passed 270 days streak. To suppliment this further I am also using some textbooks and working through the pages and doing the exercises.

I have been learning how to make various bread-related products including bagels and pitta bread. I am next going to start on making sourdough bread.

Side project I am currently working on:

I am currently working on a couple of connected projects. First of all is a next.js app that is powering the API for a React Native app that allows me to control my home automation.

I am also getting back into the Chrome Extension development game having updated a couple of my extensions and created another one for my personal use.

Reading

I have just started reading "Foe" by Iain Reid. As well as this I have just started listening to "Source Code" by Bill Gates on Audible. In the car with the children we are working our way through the fourth Harry Potter book "The Goblet of Fire" by J K Rowling.

Podcasts

I have just started listening to the "How I Built This with Guy Raz" podcast. Further to this I am also listening to different episodes of "Whiskey Web and Whatnot", "Syntax", and "Shop Talk". Sprinkled between all of these are some random French podcasts that I have subscribed to.

Fitness

Zwifting once or twice a week, running once or twice. Yesterday I made excellent use of the fantastic weather to do an epic road ride with 1500m+ d+ in 82km "Deeper into the Vercors" . I have also been doing plenty of walking and on Sunday we went to Autrans in the Vercors for our weekly family hike.