I’ve often noticed plaques on the wall in various places around Gueret. And they all have the date 7 juin 1944 on them. While waiting for Benj to take his German oral exam last Friday, I walked round and took photos of the ones I could find. Then I did some research to find out [...] [...]
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We’re test-driving a vehicle at the mo. Not a brand new Lamborghini, sad to say, but a 50 year old Mc Cormick Farmall Intenational 265 tractor. These were churned out in large quantities between the 1920s and 1970s as a sensibly priced, all purpose tractor aimed at medium-sized family farms. They could do enough of [...] [...] My two teens are taking their bacs at the moment. The bac, le baccalauréat, introduced by Napoleon in 1808, is the qualification students gain (hopefully!) at the end of their three years in lycée, when the majority of them are aged around 18. Technically it is an academically qualifying degree, so if a student definitely [...] [...] I happened across this by chance the other day – a proposal to Euroify English. I think it’s absolutely brilliant! It is attributed to Dolton Edwards who wrote it some time in 194os, at the very beinning of the EU. (It’s first appearance was as the European Coal and Steel Community.) Maybe I [...] [...] |
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