Bonjour!
Subsequent week we have fun Might Day – considered one of 4 nationwide holidays this month in France. The outlets are stuffed with the scent of lily of the valley crops, because it’s a practice in France to provide them to family members on 1st Might (yow will discover out extra about why we do that within the podcast hyperlink under).
My chickens in the meantime, are stuffed with spring fever, clucking coyly at cockerels George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Gregory Peck. I do know you assume that I’m somewhat cuckoo in the case of animals, however my buddy Annette, who lives a few villages away, additionally retains chickens and geese, many greater than me, is much more cuckoo than I’m!
As soon as I visited her and he or she was strolling so slowly that I believed she was in ache till she confessed that she in truth had an egg in her bra. A rooster had been sitting on a duck egg for a number of weeks and determined to desert it, however Annette stated when she picked it up, she may hear the newborn chook cheeping inside, and to maintain it heat she popped it inside her bra. That night time she went to dinner on the home of some pals, with the egg nonetheless in situ which each and every from time to time cheeped out loud. She stated she didn’t dare inform her pals as a result of they might assume she was bonkers – it drove them mad making an attempt to determine the place the noise was coming from. The egg hatched the following day, a cute, fluffy little duckling that lived in the home till it was sufficiently old to fend for itself, named Titania, after the Queen of the Fairies in Midsummer’s Night time Dream after all.
Final week I nipped throughout the border of Pas-de-Calais the place I stay, and into Picardy to go to the brand new Worldwide Language centre which is a really fascinating exploration of the historical past of language – French and others. I’ll be writing about it for the following concern of The Good Life France Journal (subscribe right here free of charge)! Subsequent week I’m off to historic Arras in northern France, and after that I’ll be scampering up the facet of extinct volcanoes and exploring Clermont-Ferrand within the Auvergne space within the southeast France. Include me through Instagram as I publish photographs and movies on my journeys.
Wishing you a really bon weekend, wherever you might be, from my little rural nook of northern France,
Bisous
Janine
Editor The Good Life France
High picture: It’s wisteria time in France! This beautiful picture of Sarlat in spring is by Pat Bruce
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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 out there as e book, print & audio, on Amazon all over the place & all good bookshops on-line. Her new e-book Tips on how to be French – a celebration of the French way of life and artwork de vivre, is out now – a have a look at the French lifestyle.
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