Sunday, April 25, 2021

All for a small dish of pasta!

This is a response from an email of Lucy's


I am no less crazy than any of you... When I talk to my hens, I respectfully call them "Mesdames les poulets" ("Ladies Chickens" ?). Today, Bertille flew vertically, like a helicopter, at least 2 meters high (for a small dish of pasta). What energy! 



 

Friday, April 23, 2021

Pays Chabal

The land of Chabal pays tribute this month to Bertille, Ficelle and Guenievre with these commemorative stamps. The pride of Chabalians is to wear the original costumes of their ancestors from the time of William Shakesperica.

Le pays de Chabal rend hommage ce mois-ci à Bertille, Ficelle et Guenievre avec ces timbres commémoratifs. La fierté des Chabaliens est de porter les costumes originaux de leurs ancêtres de l'époque de William Shakesperica.





Sunday, April 11, 2021

But our hearts are half sunny (half-funny)

 The creative process + 

Joy of collaboration = moments of bliss. Even for ones who have just bowed out (Mark, lol) for they cannot help themselves.

Yes, here comes the recognition that the effort involved +
The desire to sleep in a warm bed +
The need to keep food in the fridge = 
work cluck cluck work.

And, in addition the necessity of earning a living, while perhaps  accepting a pair of tired old hips, might remind you of many a long lost ship
that crashethed in the rocks
just when it thought its journey might finally amount to something.

Oh dear,
Oh dear.
Where shall we be go from here?

E.C.

( by Erica Charlesworth)






( by Erica Charlesworth) ( Mark says it looks like they are dancing on eggs)


Pour "plusieurs types créatifs", "types" ne marche pas en français dans ce sens là. On pourrait peut-être mettre "esprits créatifs" ? Ou simplement "plusieurs créatifs" (à combustion lente). Ou autre chose.
So funny and beautiful !


Yes, on the sunny egg of Sundra.

The weather report said it would rain, but it doesn't
So maybe I'll go to Vieux Lyon with my guitar and my pavement chalks I bought few days ago

(...and of course, immediatly as I'm out, it will rain!

It's time of melancholy....
But our hearts are half- sunny (half-funny)

Response par Henri 


And finally this morning, Raphael made the news with his beautiful cabins in the trees.










Thursday, April 1, 2021

Je suis Francophone

Je suis devenu obsédé par l'apprentissage du français. Et donc je me plonge dans la langue française. Je regarde les médias français, je lis des histoires françaises et maintenant je vais commencer à bloguer en français et en anglais. La nuit, je rêve même en français. 


Pour commencer, je partage le poème de Mark avec la traduction d'Henri.