Always make sure your words are sweet and tender... one day you may have to eat them.

Name: Catherine Jeffcoat

Current location: Malakoff, Paris

Current timezone: UTC/GMT +1 hour

About me: Francophile, dancer, from Wellington New Zealand. I moved to Paris in March 2007 and haven't stopped pinching myself yet.

The image is a mural on the side of the Cook Islands Library and Museum in Rarotonga, where I took my first solo holiday in seven years. What can I say - once a librarian, always a librarian.