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Springing Into Life

Springing Into Life
It’s well and truly spring here in Creuse. How do we know? Here are 11 sure signs:

Wise Words for March

Here are some traditional French sayings from the 1932 and 1933 copies of La Prosperité à la Campagne magazine.
Autant de brouillard en mars – autant de gel en avril
There’ll be as much frost in April as there is fog in March.
(A saying from the South-West)
Autant de brouillard en mars – autant d’orages en été
There’ll [...]

January blues

I’ve read in several places that round about now (the 20th or so of January) is the most depressing time of year. It’s a month since Christmas, it’s the middle of winter and there’s nothing much to look forward to in the immediate future. Except perhaps more snow.
The very worst day is so-called Blue Monday, [...]

Frozen solid

The temperature hasn’t gone above minus 5 for four days now.