I hope that you just and yours are effectively.
Right here we’re anticipating some snow to reach within the subsequent week or so, it’s not that frequent the place I stay within the north of France however each few years we get a good quantity – sufficient for teenagers to toboggan down the perimeters of the steep hills that make up the Seven Valleys the place I stay. Bread Man, who delivers bread, croissants, desserts and pastries to our space in all weathers, is planning to make snowball desserts as he calls them – pastry circumstances stuffed with crunchy chewy meringue on the bottom, then white chocolate crème and topped with candy coconut flakes, alongside his scrumptious Galette des Rois desserts that we’ll all be consuming on 6 January (discover out why!).
It’s conventional for the French to want you Completely happy New 12 months from 1 January and all through the month, not earlier than as my neighbours remind me once I overlook! “Bonne année” is the frequent greeting right here, and I’ve taught Bread Man a Scottish conventional greeting which a good friend despatched to me this 12 months: “Lang might your lum reek.”
Since this was the primary time I’ve ever been wished a reeking lum, I needed to look it up and it apparently means, actually, “lengthy might your chimney smoke” and it’s a heartfelt option to want somebody prosperity, good well being and heat for the 12 months forward. I’ll take that! Bread Man, who for a number of years has been instructing me French whereas I educate him English, likes to know genuine English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish phrases, and lapped this one up, although his Scottish accent wants a bit of labor. So should you ever come to the north of France and meet a baker who appears like Tremendous Mario with a beret and in January, alongside together with your baguette and snowball cake, he mutters “lang might your lum reek,” you’ll know why!
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Janine
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Janine Marsh is Writer 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 accessible as e book, print & audio, on Amazon in every single place & all good bookshops on-line. Her newest ebook How you can be French – is a celebration of the French life-style and artwork de vivre.
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