Bonjour,
I hope you and yours are effectively. And in case you haven’t seen a publication from me this yr – bonne année, completely happy new yr, it’s a convention to say it all through the entire of January right here in France!
It’s a quiet month on the entire the place I stay, the climate adjustments from daily – we had a variety of snow a few weeks in the past which the canine cherished (you possibly can see them right here on Instagram – it’s the final video on my day by day life highlights), then we had some sunny days, adopted by torrential rain, and an enormous storm that purchased down bushes and cellphone poles. It even blew submit packing containers off the wall (in France we’ve got small metallic submit packing containers mounted to a wall, typically separate from the property, we don’t have letter packing containers within the entrance door like within the UK).
Claudette, my beautiful, nonagenarian neighbour says that this bitterly chilly and fierce wind is named the Écorche-Vache – The Skinned Cow, as a result of it blows so arduous folks say that it will probably strip the pores and skin proper off a cow (although she admits that nobody has ever truly seen this occur). This icy blast roars throughout the Seven Valleys the place I stay within the north of France, bending younger bushes, breaking branches, swinging the nice balls of mistletoe that dangle like monumental baubles. It puffs foolhardy birds off target, levitates my chickens like tiny, feathered fairies, flapping and squawking indignantly, and it throws buckets of rain towards home windows, whereas above the sky rages. When this mighty wind rampages by the village, all of us keep inside, shutters closed tight.
The Skinned Cow is rarer than the North Wind which rattles the shutters, wafts the smoke from chimneys into frenzied patterns, and spooks the canine when their fur is ruffled by invisible assailants as they take their day by day walks. The locals name the North Wind a ‘bise’ – a kiss, because it blows the rain clouds far-off and kisses the sky to make it smile once more.
However already the wintry days, when the darkness of the night time appears to the touch the darkness of the morning, are rising longer, the mimosa is blooming vibrant yellow within the south and snowdrops and daffodils are pushing their heads by the earth within the north. And adventures await…
Wishing you a really bon weekend from a breezy little nook in northern France,
Bisous from France,
Janine,
Editor
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