November past and present

I have just read through the November 1932 issue of La Prospérité à la Campagne and picked out the following to share with you:
Some sayings:
La Toussaint venue – plus de charrue
All Saint’s Day has come – no more ploughing.

Autant d’heures de soleil le jour de Toussaint-
Autant de semaines à souffler dans ses mains.
For every hour [...]

Halloween

Halloween is huge in the Dagg household. Coming from Ireland, like Halloween itself (Irish people fleeing to America during the Famine brought with them the tradition of having a knees-up on 31 October, the day summer was said to end – and the Americans loved the idea!), we celebrate it in style. Trick or treating [...]