Ep 27 - Georgina speaks to French editor and historian Pauline De Ayala 📚 🥐 🇫🇷

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Pauline is an editor and historian, part-time tour guide and single mother of three young children who is based in Reims France. I wanted to talk to her about what the past 18 months have been like. France has had much stricter restrictions than the UK so what was it like juggling a busy freelance editor job and looking after three children of 14, 11 and 3 ½ years old.

Pauline says, ‘the last 18 months has been very tough but also very interesting in terms of organisation’. Having a routine was key but the suddenness of schools closing was a shock. ‘And then suddenly I happened to be shut in my own flat with my three kids, no more school and still work to do because as a freelancer I need to work there is no other solution’. That said, you can’t help but chuckle when you hear of her 11-year-old son not being very cooperative and how ‘I had to keep an eye on the little one because she was tempted, very seriously, to paint the whole flat with these pens’.

Pauline’s humorous anecdotal stories of her children demanding ‘sushi’ and ‘real pizza’ show how incredibly demanding but also rewarding this time was. Looking back, she feels this whole experience has been very positive for herself and her children. ‘This adventure has been hard but for me it’s been very positive because I had to do something that I would never have thought I was able to do so - it was a big challenge actually.’ The interview was recorded on Thursday 1st September at 1 pm CEST.

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