I hope that you just and yours are nicely.
This week in my a part of France we’ve had snow, solar, rain, cloud, hail, blue skies and fog – the climate gods are actually having enjoyable.
La Chandeleur is arising subsequent week – 2 February – pancake day right here in France! The Fête de la Chandeleur (Candlemas within the English language) is when just about everybody in France will get to feast on crêpes although no-one is aware of why for certain. It’s an historic custom, and a few say it goes again nearly 1500 years when Pope Gelasius I provided pancakes to pilgrims.
I’ll be again simply in time for the occasion from the French Alps the place I’m going to stroll within the snow, meet goats and huskies and make a snow angel, a dream come true for me (I’ll be posting on Instagram so include me). I’ll be whipping up a batch of the French type skinny crêpes (fail proof recipe under), and I’ll get the low down on what the season has in retailer from our very personal Punxsutawney Phil. In the event you’ve seen the movie Groundhog Day, you’ll know {that a} cute groundhog emerges from his cosy winter den in Pennsylvania, America, to foretell the climate annually on 2 February – mid-winter. If he can’t see his shadow it means an early spring. Properly the place I stay, we’ve got Jean-Claude, my neighbour also referred to as Monsieur Partout – Mr. In every single place as he appears to be in all places you go within the village!
Jean-Claude, who will not be cute, will emerge from his cosy farmhouse on 2 February to foretell the climate as he does daily after we speak previous with our canine. After I first moved to this village, I used to imagine all the things he mentioned, he claims his forecasts are based mostly on ant and frog spawn exercise however I now know from his spouse that they’re the truth is based mostly on his creativeness and purple wine. Very often he will get his hunches proper, and we’re au fait together with his methods and assume that no matter he says it’s going to most probably be mistaken. With the climate we’ve had these days although, he has a superb likelihood of a minimum of getting the quick time period forecast proper!
I want you a heat and cosy weekend wherever you might be,
Bisous from chilly France
Janine
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Janine Marsh is Creator of My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream, My 4 Seasons in France: A 12 months of the Good Life and Toujours la France: Residing the Dream in Rural France all out there as e book, print & audio, on Amazon in all places & all good bookshops on-line. Her new e book The way to be French – a celebration of the French way of life and artwork de vivre, is out now – a take a look at the French lifestyle.
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