IMAGES OF THINGS THAT SPEAK OF HOME………. Black, white, fat, skinny, frothy, latte, Turkish, French, Italian, Patagonian, Arabica, Robusta, long, short,double, single, married, divorced – whatever your style of coffee, whether you drink it to stay awake, to round off a great meal or to revive your flagging spirits, that powerful aroma brings with it…
Tag: French
New Kid on the Blog
In which we enter a new world and attempt to learn a new language – twice… When we first moved to France almost 13 years ago, armed with our reasonable school French and an extra dose of advanced grammar, we were happily confident that we could cope on an everyday level with the language barrier….
Watching TV
In which we ponder the mysteries of French television schedules……. We’ve watched a little television these last few evenings and caught up with the latest season, in France that is, of Grey’s Anatomy. For a few years we watched this strangly addictive hospital drama in the dubbed French version. Never was a person more disappointed…
From Plural to very Singular
In which we consider daily exercise and I decide to blog it alone….. Yes, today I’ve decided to drop the royal ‘we’ in favour of the more comfortable imperial ‘I’. Writing in the plural doesn’t always trip off the mental tongue and in any case it’s hard to write for two when the other part…
View from a French Hillside 