It’s ironic. It’s European Week for Waste Reduction (Semaine Européene de la Réduction des Déchets) and here am I, sat at my computer, with a pile of le pub (publicity emanating mainly from supermarkets that’s delivered every Tuesday) on my lap. I’d intended to do a blog about these pointless publications full of Christmas tat, [...] [...]
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Oh boy, it’s the Christmas season. The ads on telly began a week or so back. When we were in Limoges at half term collecting Benj, the Christmas lights were being put up. Gueret and Boussac have theirs in place now, and so does Nouzerines, but only because the glowing light tube on the church [...] [...] Ruadhri sang this song at one of his Christmas concerts, and it’s stayed a favourite – La Grève des Sapins by Dominique Dimey. So I’ve done my own translation of it. Enjoy! Chorus : It’s a strike by Christmas Trees And their pine cones, if you please! They’ve decided, every one, That fruit trees have a lot more fun. Plums are what they’d [...] [...] Nouzerines’ Marché de Noël got underway this afternoon. Caitlin has been busy with it for a couple of months now, going down to the school on Saturday mornings to make Christmas decorations and other trinkets to sell on the Comité des Fête’s stall. Benj went down to help one morning but was sent off to [...] [...] |
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