Happy Easter

You’ll be too busy eating chocolate to have much time for blogging, so a quick one today.
First up a photo of Ruadhri’s Easter Garden. He was in a rotten mood when he started it on Saturday afternoon, but he ended up enjoying the project, despite himself!
The main reason for his grumpiness was that the great [...]

E-Organisation

I had a computer crisis during the week. Thunderbird, my email program, suddenly stopped working. Chris patiently spent an afternoon sorting the problem out, and in the end installed a new program, Opera, instead. Opera happily uploaded the 30,000 emails in my archives. 30,000?!? I couldn’t believe it. Now, there do appear to be two [...]

April Sayings and Easter Traditions

Here are some old country sayings for April, taken from the 1932 and 1933 editions of La Prosperité à la Campagne.
Avril froid donne pain et vin – April doux est le pire de tous.
A cold April gives bread and wine – Mild April is the curse of all.

Si St Marc n’est pas beau, Pas [...]