Bonjour!
I hope that you simply and yours are properly.
Right here in my little bit of France I’m considering of constructing an ark – we’ve had a heap of rain. My 4 pups, Reggie and Ronnie Kray the Labradors, and Nina and Woman the Australian Shepherds are loving splashing by the massive puddles and muddy fields – me, not a lot.
I’ve had my head down more often than not engaged on the brand new subject of The Good Life France Journal – it’s almost prepared and it’s trying beautiful – I can’t wait to share it with you (it’s completely free to subscribe – simply click on right here: Subscribe).
The strangest factor occurred a few weeks in the past. I used to be working within the backyard cleansing the rooster coops out, after I heard a number of voices shouting ‘HELLO’, ‘HELLO.’
Effectively, there was nobody within the backyard besides me and the canines and I used to be fairly certain it wasn’t them – they communicate French as does everybody else in our village. The yelled greetings had been coming from the little street in entrance of our home, so I wandered spherical and there have been 4 women hanging over the fence.
“Whats up, whats up – are you the superstar Janine Marsh?” they mentioned. That made me snort out loud.
“Effectively, I’m Janine Marsh” I replied, “However I’m not a celeb, I believe you may have mistaken me for another person.”
“We’re Belgian women” mentioned one in all them, “And we all know you write books – you’re a superstar! And we wish to have our pictures taken with you.”
I used to be lined in mud and really dishevelled, however they insisted on the pictures, so I gave in and gave them my finest grin as I posed not very celebrity-like in entrance of our dustbins! After all Pierre the farmer who lives on the high of the hill selected that very second to go by in his tractor, shaking his head at this newest odd behaviour of his unusual English neighbours.
“We’ll have to maneuver now” mentioned my husband Mark after I advised him. “It’ll be like Peter Mayle, coaches will begin turning up subsequent!”
He was in fact joking. However he needn’t fear – it seems that they had been mates of our Belgian neighbours a few villages away, they usually’d revealed the place I reside as the women had been participating in a treasure hunt get together and one of many challenges was to discover a superstar and have your photograph taken with them. Phew… we will keep!
Greatest needs and bisous from a ‘superstar’ in the course of nowhere rural northern France,
Bisous
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 Yr of the Good Life and Toujours la France: Dwelling the Dream in Rural France all obtainable as e book, print & audio, on Amazon in all places & all good bookshops on-line. Her new e-book How you can be French – a celebration of the French life-style and artwork de vivre, is out now – a take a look at the French lifestyle.
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