Bonjour
I hope you and yours are properly.
I like this time of the yr in our little village, the meadows are stuffed with wildflowers and ripening wheat, leafy inexperienced potatoes, simply sprouting candy corn and all method of greens. Farmers are flitting about of their tractors working the land and hoping for a very good harvest. Tiny apples and pears like fruity Christmas baubles flourish in each backyard. Blackbirds sit on the wall exterior my workplace within the transformed pigsty (there is no such thing as a hint of the previous inhabitants right here I guarantee you!) instructing their infants to fly and sing. There may be one who trills like a phone which at all times makes me snicker. The air smells candy with the swell of the countryside rising as summer time approaches.
There has additionally been a frisson of pleasure within the village in the previous few weeks. Fish Man is on vacation. He delivers recent fish to the village on a Tuesday morning – he’s not truly a merman. Usually his spherical is roofed by his brother who seems to be identical to him, two peas from the identical pod – or because the French say, ‘like two drops of water’ (comme deux gouttes d’eau).
However Fish Man and Fish Man’s Brother have gone on vacation along with their households to Corsica for a month, and their good friend has stepped in to assist. The village grapevine is abuzz. Substitute Fish Man seems to be a bit like John Travolta (in his disco dancing days). He sings opera whilst you select your fish from the van’s show window (not John Travolta, Substitute Fish Man I imply), and has a profitable smile when he wraps your packages and pops in a bit little bit of parsley with as a lot pleasure as if he’s providing you with a diamond ring. A number of girls have confessed to purchasing extra fish than common
Bread Man (who delivers bread, muffins and croissants to our village) has been listening to his prospects tales of Fish Man Substitute’s charms. Bread Man seems to be a bit like Tremendous Mario, undoubtedly has a profitable smile, and tells me his is engaged on the voice – I predict that in some unspecified time in the future within the close to future my tarts might be delivered alongside Bread Man’s model of La Traviata and several other (oh) la las.
Wishing you a really bon weekend wherever you’re.
Bisous from a bit village in the course of nowhere the place nothing a lot occurs however life isn’t boring.
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: Dwelling the Dream in Rural France all out there as e book, print & audio, on Amazon in every single place & all good bookshops on-line. Her newest e-book Easy methods to be French – is a celebration of the French life-style and artwork de vivre.
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