October sayings – and a bright future

I know we’re halfway through October but it’s not too late to share some October sayings with you. These come from the 1932 and 1933 editions of La Prosperité à la campagne.
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To eat – or not to eat

Every year there is a fête de champignons in Boussac. The French don’t differentiate between mushrooms and toadstools the way we do – they call everything a champignon. But some you can eat, and some you can’t.
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Prayers for pets

Two of our animals went to church this morning.
There was a special animal blessing ceremony to celebrate St Francis’s day at Nouzerines. We set off with Seamus and Brendan the alpacas, and also Archer the guinea-pig in a wastepaper basket. But we were a bit late, the alpacas weren’t in a mood to be hurried, [...]

Sick of sick notes

A frustrating morning. Ruadhri has been sick all week with a very bad cold that has left him tired. So he’s been off school, obviously. Anyway, his teacher phoned me up today and quoted at great length from French law (which I really did NOT appreciate) to inform me that when a child is off [...]