So, as you probably have noticed, today is Friday the 13th. We have three this year, so the superstitious among you better brace themselves: it's going to be a heavy year. I never was superstitious, except maybe when I was a child, and then it was more for fun than anything else. I always had a certain shiver of fear, of playful uncertainty, when it was Friday the 13th. When we were walking back from school, we sometimes walked along the way with a fellow pupil, not a friend but a friend of a friend. He had a wild imagination and had invented a sort of Doomsday calendar for Friday the 13th. He used to say that this particular day was Zombie Day, or Axe Wielding Maniacs Day, or some such things. He started saying whatever horror Apocalyptic things was meant to happen on this specific Friday the 13th we were on. Then he carried on for the rest of the week. It might have sounded scary, but I found it entertaining in its sinister way. So yeah, this is my most vivid childhood memory of Friday the 13th. What is yours?
Friday, 13 February 2026
Question existentielle (401)
Nous sommes le vendredi 13, j'ai donc une question existentielle sur le sujet:
-Avez-vous des souvenirs spécifiques liés au Vendredi 13?
Moi j'en ai, voir le billet suivant.
Thursday, 12 February 2026
Latest Train Travel
Oiseau d'argile
Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Schnitzel
La charrue et son ombre
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Bigfoot Sighting in Cannock Chase
This bit of news dates back from last January. For some reason, I hadn't seen it. But anyway, here's something interesting for whoever is into cryptozoology, even if only as a skeptic (like me): a man saw a Bigfoot in Cannock Chase. Now, like I said, I am very skeptical every time someone claims to have seen a cryptid, wherever it is in the world. And I read that Cannock Chase is (in)famous for many sightning of various cryptids and paranormal activities. It sounds like an hoax or a genuine mistake. All the same, I like a place with a lot of local folklore and this story and others could make for an interesting work of fiction. So I intend to learn more about Cannock Chase in the future. Maybe even visit it.
Le Concorde en Lego
Monday, 9 February 2026
Condor Thriller(s)
I love a good spy thriller, as you know, and I try to read all of the classics of the genre and watch them when there are any available. I watched Three Days of the Condor a few times, I even read James Grady's Six Days of the Condor. Great author to read, by the way, I suggest you see his other works (I haven't many of them, but still), not only the one that made him famous. Anyway, I recently learned that, like many iconic stories, this one got readapted in 2018, a TV series simply titled Condor. There's too many of them these days, on too many streaming services, it's hard to keep track, so I had no idea it even existed. I guess I will have to check if I can see it somewhere. If you have seen it, please leave a comment. In the meantime, I recommend the original novel. You might also find interesting that Grady wrote a sort of sequel to it, condor.net, setpost 9/11, with a new protagonist with the same codename.
Courvoisier
Je regardais ce film il y a quelques jours, quand j'ai vu une bouteille de Courvoisier sur la table. Et je me rends compte encore une fois que je ne connais vraiment pas grand-chose sur le cognac et ses marques. Je bois très rarement des spiritueux. La plupart du temps, quand ça arrive, c'est une shot de whiskey pour accompagner une bière, ou alors quand on m'offre un verre. Mais je suis depuis l'an dernier plus curieux en ce qui concerne le(s) cognac(s). Vous avez bu du Courvoisier? C'est comment? Dites-le moi dans les commentaires.
Sunday, 8 February 2026
Ludo
Princesse/Impératrice Sissi
Sherlock and Baskerville Hall
Anecdote à Salsbourg
Saturday, 7 February 2026
My Terrestrial Globe
Une occasion pour du mousseux
Friday, 6 February 2026
Tracking Trackers
I am finishing for the second time South African crime writer Deon Meyer's novel Blood Safari.It is just as good as I remembered it and it made me eager for more. The hero appears in another novel, Trackers, which was adapted into a TV series of the same name (and not to be confuse with this one, same title except without an s). So yeah, I have beend esperate to find it. It's not on Netflix, but apparently (as far as I understand from the researches I made) it's on Sky TV, on Apple TV and on Amazon Prime. Just not the streaming services I am subscribed to. This is really frustrating. I was hoping to find it on BBC iPlayer, but no luck there either. This is very frustrating. I am kind of tempted to get Prime, but not sure it is worth it. I will be patient.
Voltaire (citation apocryphe)
Tiens, j'en ai appris une bien bonne aujourd'hui et je voulais la raconter. C'est une citation apocryphe de Voltaire, mais quand même, elle est drôle. Donc, sur son lit de mort, le 30 mai 1778, un prêtre vient à son chevet.
Le prêtre: "Renoncez-vous à Satan, mon fils?"
Voltaire: "Mon bon monsieur, ce n'est vraiment pas le moment de me faire de nouveaux ennemis."
Bon, comme je dis, c'est apocryphe, mais c'est plein d'esprit. Une part de moi espère vraiment que ce soit vrai.














