Blogue d'un québécois expatrié en Angleterre. Comme toute forme d'autobiographie est constituée d'une large part de fiction, j'ai décidé de nommer le blogue Vraie Fiction.
Saturday, 31 March 2018
The popularity of Wolfie
Yesterday, we went to an art class for toddlers. It was a special activity day for Easter, usually my wife goes there with Wolfie at other times during the week. She told me that the woman organizing it absolutely adores our son, to the point when she had told her that Wolfie is her favourite of all the children. I thought she probably said this to every parent. But now I think she was not saying this just to be polite: the first did she did when we got in, after greeting us and especially our boy with the most enthusiastic smile, was whispering to me: "You know don't say it to anyone, but your son is actually my favourite." And she said this with such earnestness that I believe her. It is not so surprising, many people told us how adorable he is and many women even went to say that he will break hearts when he grows up. Still, it's always nice to hear.
Question existentielle (324)
Demain c'est Pâques, nous sommes donc le Samedi saint (pour lui donner un nom bien catholique). Je le passe avec un mélange de fébrilité et d'ennui: on a en général des Pâques tranquilles en famille. Tout de même, je me pose cette question existentielle:
-Quoi faire un Samedi saint?
-Quoi faire un Samedi saint?
Friday, 30 March 2018
Sparky the Easter Dragon?

Les corneilles du Vendredi saint

Thursday, 29 March 2018
A fox in the playground

La Dernière Cène, version cthulienne

Pour tous les amis
Qui ont répondu
À l'appel de Cthulhu"
Pour la mise en contexte des vers plus haut, veuillez lire ce billet. Sinon, l'illustration que vous voyez ici, je la tiens de mon frère Andrew. J'ai pensé souligner le Jeudi saint avec un peu d'humour blasphématoire et j'ai trouvé que ça faisait parfaitement l'affaire, parce que la Communion et tout ça.
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
"Oh nooooo!" (says Wolfie)
Our son talks a bit and he has already acquired a certain eloquence, or at least a way to get out of trouble. When he throws something on the floor, especially messy stuff such as a bottle of water or a half full yogurt pot, he says a: "Oh nooooo!" with a sad puppy look on his face that means he finds this outcome very, very unfortunate. He simply has the face of the client every defense lawyer dream to have. It works every time, I am utterly unable to scold him. Because of this, his "Oh nooooo!" deserves to be a great unknown line.
Les oeufs de Pâques et moi

Tuesday, 27 March 2018
St Peter's for Easter?

Le lapin de Pâques

Monday, 26 March 2018
£10 back to the bookshop
Here is another little anecdote about the local bookshop explaining why I like them so much: I went there yesterday and I behaved myself: I only bought one book for Wolfie. I paid in cash, using a 20 pounds note, the person at the till gave me back a ten pounds note and some coins. When we went to make other purchases, we discovered that the ten pounds note was an old note, no longer in use and accepted in shops, but exchangeable at the bank. We went back to the bookshop, and we got it exchanged without a fuss or protest, or any question. Now I understand that I am a very loyal customer and that it is in the interest of a local business to be fair and honest to local customers, or customers in general, but nevertheless, this was nice and friendly and not all businesses, here and elsewhere, are like this nowadays.
La (trop) longue Semaine sainte...
Hier c'était le dimanche des Rameaux, qui commence la Semaine sainte menant à Pâques. Quand j'étais un enfant catholique, ça voulait dire que le Lundi saint, on faisait un deux en un et on célébrait la fête de la journée d'avant également, voir ce billet pour les détails. Maintenant, c'est juste une longue semaine avant les vacances de Pâques. L'attente est en général plaisante, mais cette semaine, je vais la trouver longue. Elle ne durera que quatre jours, mais je crains beaucoup de trouver le temps long. La vie était plus simple quand j'étais enfant catholique, du moins dans mon souvenir: on prenait ça mollo durant les quatre jours. Le pire, c'est qu'on n'a encore encore rien de préparé pour célébrer, mais ça ne fait rien, c'est le principe: quand t'as besoin de vacances, elles prennent toujours trop de temps à arriver.
Sunday, 25 March 2018
I, Claudius...

Bière, circonstances et tempérament

Saturday, 24 March 2018
Bridge Over Troubled Water
I thought I'd put some music on this blog, as I have not done so in a long while. Today, as we were driving home after an afternoon out of town, Bridge Over Troubled Water was playing and it got stuck in my head. This song has one rare quality: both my wife and I love it. We were singing it along on the way back, to Wolfie's indifference (he was asleep). I am not sure what I like about it, or what it is about, but I do find it quite sweet and very soothing.
Jean Sans Peur (contre Kludde)

Et en bout de ligne, j'ai pu retrouver le film sur YouTube, dans plusieurs versions de qualités inégales, dont l'une en flamand sous-titré en anglais. Malgré ses défauts, j'ai quand même eu un grand plaisir à le voir à nouveau et Kludde est toujours aussi effrayant.
Action Men Mania

Les fleurs du mal
Photo prise dans le Derbyshire afin d'illustrer mon propos. Je ne sais pas qui a fait cette représentation d'orchidées, mais elles sont à la fois jolies et vaguement menaçantes. Je me suis déjà demandé si les orchidées étaient les fleurs du mal. J'ai déjà dit que je les trouvais sinistres. Je les regarde dans cette représentation, à la fois sculpture en deux dimensions et tableau, et j'en suis à peu près persuadé: on dirait une hydre végétale, dont les fleurs sont autant de têtes.
Friday, 23 March 2018
Fish & Chips for Good Friday?

5000g de lapin Lulu
No, non, je ne parle pas d'un vrai lapin, mais bien d'un lapin en chocolat Lulu. Ils l'offrent dans un concours pour Pâques. 5000 grammes, c'est énorme et ça doit se manger en famille. Je recommande donc aux chanceux vivants au Saguenay d'y participer. Lulu est un très bon chocolatier et une tradition saguenéenne du temps de Pâques. Leurs animaux sont aussi, comme ce lapin, beaucoup plus réalistes et moins cartoonesques que ce qu'on retrouve trop souvent ailleurs. celui-ci est anthropomorphique (attention: ceci est notre mot du jour) juste ce qu'il faut, mais il a tout de même l'air d'un vrai de vrai lapin. Sauf que vous ne vous sentirez pas coupable de la manger. Ou peut-être que si, parce qu'il est vraiment bien réussi.
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Oh dear, oh deer!
I took this picture in Derbyshire and I am uploading it here as it illustrates a recent anecdote about little Wolfie that my wife witnessed. Anyway, we bought to our son at Jojo Maman Bébé a Forest Stacker Tower: a bunch of wooden animals which the toddler piles up. Well, in Wolfie's case, he throws them around or simply make them stand on the floor or the sofa. Or make them lie down. Whatever he does, he simply loves them. So my wife was having Wolfie play with them, giving him the name of every animal as he was touching them. After a while, as he was holding the deer, he looked at it intensely and said "deeer!" Now my son knows a few words already (he's one and a half after all), but still, that moved us a lot. And luckily enough, my wife was taking a video of him.
Homère
Le dernier hôtel où mes parents et mon frère PJ sont demeurés lors de leur séjour en Angleterre avait beaucoup de classe et avait bien des tableaux intéressants, dont celui-ci. Je suis à peu près certain que c'est le poète grec Homère. L'auteur de l'Iliade et de l'Odyssée, qui n'a sans doute jamais existé. C'est un tableau un peu sombre pour illustrer la Grèce antique, mais je l'aime bien quand même. Ça fait longtemps que je voulais partager et je me suis dit que c'était le bon temps, parce que Pâques arrive et que j'associe Pâques à la mythologie grecque (voir ce billet). Et puis Ulysse étant mon héros grec préféré, je suis reconnaissant à Homère, même s'il est aussi fictif que ses personnages, de l'avoir popularisé dans deux grandes oeuvres épiques.
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Caution: green paint
This is another anecdote about my son I have heard from my wife, but sadly did not witness it. I wish I had. It's a very silly one, a non event which I find nevertheless very funny. So anyway, my wife and Wolfie went to an art class yesterday. They go there every week and little Wolfie enjoys it a lot, although he does nothing except playing with whatever he can find and run around like some wild anarchist that he is. As usual that day, my wife did most of the work, gluing stuff on a sheet of paper and doing the colouring and so on. But Wolfie took a bit of paint and put it on my wife's jeans. Some orange paint and some green one too. And that's the funny part: my wife detests the green colour. And now she has some on her favourite jeans. It should go with a laundry wash. One hopes.
Printemps maudit
Vous remarquerez sans doute que je n'ai pas blogué sur l'équinoxe du printemps hier, alors qu'on était pourtant... l'équinoxe. Pour une ou deux raisons. La première, c'est que j'écris de plus en plus mes billets à l'avance et que ça m'était passé six pieds par dessus la tête jusqu'à ce que je remarque que l'on était le 20 mars. Je vais confesser une chose: je ne l'aime plus guère, l'arrivée du printemps. Que je considère marqué par le premier du mois, pas l'équinoxe, mais c'est une autre histoire. Je n'aime pas trop le printemps parce que c'est une saison sournoise, comme c'est le cas maintenant: il fait froid, c'est vraiment désagréable dehors. Également, parce que les journées qui rallongent, j'aime ça moyen. Je trouve ça moins relaxant. Bon, c'est plaisant une ou deux semaines... s'il fait beau. Enfin, je râle, mais suis-je le seul à râler et à ne pas (beaucoup) aimer le printemps? Enfant, c'était ma saison préférée, pourtant. Il faudra peut-être que je blogue à ce sujet, d'ailleurs, ça me ferait moins grogner sur la saison et je lui retrouverais alors peut-être quelques vertus oubliées.
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
The Famous Grouse

Citation apocryphe de Nietzsche
"Tout ce qui ne tue pas rend plus fort, à l'exception de la neuro-syphilis."
-Nietzsche
Cette citation est apocryphe (notre mot du jour), parce que c'est de mon frère Andrew. Je l'ai trouvée bien drôle, surtout que je n'ai jamais si tant trippé que ça sur Nietzsche (à part quand il a dit que Dieu était mort, ça, ça va, c'était bien envoyé.) Mais dans tous les cas la citation apocryphe est hilarante et est ici homologuée comme grande réplique inconnue.
-Nietzsche
Cette citation est apocryphe (notre mot du jour), parce que c'est de mon frère Andrew. Je l'ai trouvée bien drôle, surtout que je n'ai jamais si tant trippé que ça sur Nietzsche (à part quand il a dit que Dieu était mort, ça, ça va, c'était bien envoyé.) Mais dans tous les cas la citation apocryphe est hilarante et est ici homologuée comme grande réplique inconnue.
Monday, 19 March 2018
The Wallingford Connection

La simplicité du grilled cheese

Sunday, 18 March 2018
Naughty, greedy Domino

"Le savais-tu?"

Saturday, 17 March 2018
Guinness time

Corto Maltese en Irlande

Happy Saint-Patrick's Day!

Smoothie de la Saint-Patrick

Friday, 16 March 2018
The Italian sandwiches

Les berceuses du hibou
Thursday, 15 March 2018
The Ides of March... on the stage!
Today is the 15th of March, the Ides of March, also known as the day Julius Caesar was murdered. It is an anniversary I commemorate every year on this blog. The date and the name is also famous because of the famous line "Beware the Ides of March" from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Which I have neither read nor watched in its entirety yet. I could have the chance to see it no later than this month, as the National Theatre has the play in production and will broadcast it live on the 22nd of March. It is a fitting time of year to show the play. And a fitting time in British life as well, due to current events, which I don't intend to dwell on for now. It seems that we must indeed beware the Ides of March.
On annonce de la neige...
Photo prise dans le parc près de la job, c'est joli et ça sert mon propos. Tout ça pour dire que malgré le temps doux des derniers jours on annonce encore de la neige pour en fin de semaine. Et on est à la moitié du mois de mars, pratiquement au printemps. J'en ai comme un tantinet ras le bol, surtout qu'ici, ils ne savent pas gérer ça. Morale de l'histoire: même ma nordicité a des limites. Et il faut se méfier des Ides de mars.
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
A Clockwork Orange in Liverpool
Everybody knows the movie, not as many people know the original novel by Anthony Burgess, but there is another medium to (re)discover A Clockwork Orange if you are in Liverpool: on stage. The Everyman Company made its own adaptation. First I have a rhetorical question: why wasn't such project made when I was working and living in Liverpool? If I didn't have family obligations, I would probably take time off to go and see it. Having lived there for a year, I have an attachment to it, I also consider it a very fitting place for a stage adaptation. It's a Northern city with a history of violence. Burgess loved it almost as much as his native Manchester. In fact, the story of A Clockwork Orange could very well be set in a nightmarish Liverpool. Anyway, it's from Saturday the 14th of April to Thursday the 12th of July, for those lucky enough to go and see it. And here is the video of their rehearsal. It does not merely make me want to see the play, I want to be back on stage just looking at it! Or better still: I want to be on stage, in Liverpool, playing a role in an adaptation of something by Anthony Burgess.
Les armoiries de McGill
Petit préambule: j'ai déjà blogué sur le même sujet ou à peu près, mais ça fait longtemps. Voici donc les armoiries de l'Université McGill. Avec en dessous la devise latine Grandescunt Aucta Labore ("Tout s'accroît par le travail"). C'est bien mcgillien, avec le rouge, le blanc, les tit oiseaux et tout le kit. Il y a une autre devise, dans l'écu lui même, tout en haut au centre: In Domino Confido inscrite dans un livre. Cela dit, de droite à gauche, ça se lit "In ConDom Fiino Do" que j'ai traduit par: "Fais-le dans un condom fin." Morales de l'histoire: 1)je suis un impie, 2)j'ai l'esprit mal tourné, et 3)c'est vraiment un calembour atroce.
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Hou Yi and the Ten Suns
I took this picture from Dragons, Gods & Spirits from Chinese Mythology. This is Hou Yi, one of the few legendary Chinese heroes I know and one of the few I liked. This illustrates the story of his mission to free the earth from the ten suns that were turning it into a oven. He had to shoot down nine of them with his arrows, then to fight the monsters which were roaming the earth due to the heatwave. You can read one version of the story here. In a way, Yi is like the Chinese version of Herakles. Don't know why I blog about him today, maybe because I don't like heat and long days, so Hou Yi is my kind of hero. Maybe because this image is beautiful and elegant yet has a subdued violence. Yi is killing the suns there. And maybe because I am about to finish reading the book and wanted to share one of its lush images that bring the stories to life.
Question existentielle (323)
Une qui me vient en tête à chaque fois que j'ai à les utiliser:
-Pourquoi les services en ligne, au lieu de nous simplifier la vie, nous la rendent si compliquée?
Je dis ça, et j'ai déjà eu un emploi où je donnais des services en ligne, que ce soit au téléphone ou sur un clavardage.
-Pourquoi les services en ligne, au lieu de nous simplifier la vie, nous la rendent si compliquée?
Je dis ça, et j'ai déjà eu un emploi où je donnais des services en ligne, que ce soit au téléphone ou sur un clavardage.
Monday, 12 March 2018
How to celebrate St Paddy's?
In less than a week, it is Saint Patrick's Day. One of my favourite holy day, celebrating a nation I deeply love. And I really wonder how to celebrate this year: the local Irish pub is now gone and I am now a father, which limited me considerably last year. I think I will mostly celebrate it on this very blog, as I always do in any case. This is here that I share my past experiences with drunkenness, her, I mean, partying, here where I share what I learned about and from Irish culture. I might sound like an old man, but I do think I have a few memories and thought that do deserve to be put in writing here. And my liver cannot take as much abuse as it used to. Come to think of it, this might be quite an interesting St Paddy's, albeit lived mostly virtually.
La photo mignonne du jour
Sunday, 11 March 2018
The hare on the bottle
I blogged before about the Gem from Bath Ales, a beer I really like and drink far too seldom. That said, it was yesterday evening's poison. What is interesting is that it was actually Wolfie's choice: I showed him the two beers I bought and asked
him which one I should have. He enthusiastically pointed at the Gem.
Then tried to grab it, then got grumpy because I wouldn't let him take it. Must
be the hare on its label. And the colour: Wolfie, just like me, loves darkish orange and amber colours. I don't want to get him too enthusiastic about beer at such tender age, but this was a funny little moment.
Le Manoir du Saguenay
Je ne sais pas trop pourquoi, j'ai récemment songé au Manoir du Saguenay, sur lequel j'ai blogué en 2013. On allait parfois y bruncher lorsque j'étais enfant et son architecture et l'atmosphère qui y régnait avaient le don de stimuler mon imagination fertile. Depuis mon billet, j'ai lu deux articles sur le Manoir, tous deux venant du Quotidien: celui-ci et celui-là. J'espère qu'il est encore parfois ouvert au public, car j'aimerais bien le revisiter et voir si mes souvenirs sont exacts.
Saturday, 10 March 2018
The Action Men are back!


old-fashioned, posh British clothes. We had lots of things to do, but I took a few moments to take a few snapshots. Not very good ones, but still. I really find them uber cool and wish they could keep them on display all year long, displayed differently depending of the time of year. I wonder why they show up now. In any case, I will take a look at them again. One day, when he is old enough, I might buy some for Wolfie.
L'enfant et l'armoire
Il semlerait que les jeunes bambins ont une relation particulière avec les armoires et ce qui s'y trouvent: ils veulent absolument ouvrir la porte de l'armoire et en connaître le contenu, dont ils vont faire l'inventaire immédiatement, même s'ils ont des jouets dans le salon qui ont coûté une beurrée et qui devraient les divertir amplement. Mais non, c'est ce qu'il y a dans les armoires (et sur les étagères, et dans les bibliothèques) qui les intéresse. C'est du moins mon expérience de père. Tout ça pour dire que petit loup a décidé de vider le contenu d'une armoire de la cuisine ce matin. Au
moins je sais maintenant qu'on a trois bouteilles de vinaigre
balsamique.
Crime (fiction) report
I learned recently that South African crime writer Deon Meyer (one of my favourite crime writers) is working on a new crime novel with recovering alcoholic police detective Benny Griessel as protagonist. His sixth appearance as main character. The book should be available in English in... October 2019. That is a long wait. I hate waiting that long, but that means circa November 2019, after my Halloween reads, I will have a new Deon Meyer to read. Now when the author made the announcement on social medias, I could not help but ask him if we would see bodyguard Martin Lemmer, my favourite of his creations (more about him here). The author's answer (I can say it since he gave it publicly): "You never know". Which seems to indicate we can see Lemmer again. I also asked about pickpoket Tyrone Kleinbooi (more about him here and here), another one I really liked, but I have no answer for this one yet. Still, Griessel, possibly Lemmer, maybe eventually Tyrone... I can't wait to meet them again. They really feel like old friends.
L'escoufle sur une branche perchée

Friday, 9 March 2018
The Long Goodbye
Sometimes I wonder if Vraie Fiction should not be renamed Crime Fiction. Anyway, I recently finished a novel which I wanted to recommend to my readers: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. His longest
novel, his most autobiographical, maybe the most literary, maybe also
the most existentialist.It was also the one Chandler considered to be his best. In it, private eye Philip Marlowe befriends
Terry Lennox, alcoholic married to the daughter of a media mogul and
reluctantly helps failed writer Roger Wade, also alcoholic. Both plots
intertwine and merges seamlessly, death and violence abound, in the end
the dead have little to envy the living, who manage to survive but at a
heavy price. They are wounded, scarred, both emotionally and physically. It's more than four hundred pages, but it never feels like it, in fact you would wish the story to last a little longer, so as not to say goodbye too early.
Le soleil et les heures printannières

Thursday, 8 March 2018
Tea for Easter
You will forgive me if I blog again about teas. I do it often these days. Easter is on its way and that means businesses are getting their Easter themed stuff to sell. This is the case for David's Tea: they have a new Easter Collection. Among the accessories this year there is a cool design of rabbits. I always prefer their autumn collection, which for me is always so perfect for both the season and the teas, but I have to say, these mugs are very, very cute and I would happily add one extra mug to my collection. I think I could even convince my wife. Even though she does not like tea, she often likes the designs from David's Tea and sometimes even uses the mugs for her coffees. As for Wolfie, he adores the mugs we already have and love rabbits. But sadly, I am a bit far away to make a purchase.
Snickers aux amandes (et autres)

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Mornings and evenings
First signs of springtime I noticed: the sun rises earlier everyday sun goes down later and later every evening, enough so I do not leave work when it is pitch black. It is March after all and thus the days are getting longer as we are getting nearer the equinox And I am not sure (at all) if I like the longer days. It generally means less time to sleep in the morning and I find it far less relaxing. I know this is strange, but I can't help it.
"En Califournie"
Je pense à la Californie ces temps-ci et je ne vous dirai pas pourquoi afin de ne pas vendre la mèche, mais j'ai une anecdote anodine et assez bête sur le sujet. Dans un cours de français de secondaire 5, ma classe avait dû lire une nouvelle de Félix Leclerc qui justement parlait de Californie: deux frères en revenaient avec des oranges et ils se disaient y avoir ait fortune. Et le prof disait, "Califournie" À l'époque, ça m'avait fait tiquer. Un prof de français. Ça ne m'a pas autant agacé que "vangance" et "squolettes", mais tout de même un tantinet.
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Master Wolfie
Here is a charming little British tradition I discovered since I became a father: they use the word Master as a form of address for young boys. In the Wikipedia entry, they say that it is used for male heirs of a large estate, which is not the case for our son. It is a bit restrictive, however: when we got him prescribed medication, "Master" was on the form before his name. For doctors, dentists and others, he us therefore Master Wolfie. Which makes sense: he kind of rules the household sometimes, or tries to, and wherever he goes behaves like a ruler. So Master as a form of address is our word of the day. And it might become one of Wolfie's sweet names.
Un tronc d'arbre

Monday, 5 March 2018
About secret passages
This is the classic board of Clue (or Cluedo as it was originally known in the UK) which is one of my favourite board games. there are two sets of secret passages: one between the kitchen and the studio and one between the conservatory and the lounge. As I blogged before, I always loved the mansion in the game. For many reasons, but one of them being the presence of these secret passages. Secret passages might be cheap tropes in whodunits an detective fiction, so gratuitous in fact that they were heavily criticized early on, but they were also a common element in my make belief games as a child. My brothers and I used them as plot points, sometimes as atmospheric settings themselves (and not merely part of the setting) or even as MacGuffin. We even had a few "real ones" to use sometimes (read my post here). And it never completely left me: I still love the idea of secret passages in fiction, if used properly.
Trouvez la pie

Sunday, 4 March 2018
Darjeeling and Earl Grey mix
The teas from Tea Pigs are fairly popular in the region where we are, as an upmarket brand of tea. I don't often think of buying them, but I enjoy them from time to time. Last week, we went to a tea room in a nearby town, and they had their products, including a Darjeeling and Earl Grey mix. It was delicious, a delicate tea with just enough caffeine to give the bit of extra energy to keep you alert for the rest of an afternoon. After this discovery, I think I should explore the products of this brand a bit more.
Le soleil et le temps
Saturday, 3 March 2018
To stay in or to go out?
The snow that recently fell has now mostly melted and it looks very dreary and grey outside. The kind of time when you would rather stay in, if only because it's so depressing when you look outside the window. And it's not like there is no chores to do here, in fact there are plenty. However, the snow falls and "severe" weather warnings had forced us to stay in as much as possible all week and thus we tend to feel very much cabin feverish, my wife, little Wolfie and I. And just staying in all day on a Saturday, it's just as depressing. We live for the weekend and want to make the most of it. So we compromised and went out for a little bit more than an hour, after spending a lot of time inside. It felt good, in spite of the very miserable look of the outside world after the lovely snow. I wonder what we will decide to do tomorrow.
"Tu es si petit, c'est si grand le monde..."
Il fut un temps où j'étais un avide spectateur de Samedi jeunes, qui passait à tous les samedis matin. J'ai notamment souvent regardé Nils Holgersson (que j'ai par après lu). Ce n'était pas ma série préférée, mais j'ai beaucoup aimé malgré tout, notamment la musique du générique final. Maintenant que je suis papa, je me la rechante souvent et je la chante à mon fils et les paroles prennent vraiment tout leur sens. Alors j'ai décidé de la partager avec vous ce soir, pour tous les parents et futurs parents notamment.
A cat in the snow

Premiers pas dans la neige

Friday, 2 March 2018
A (future) visit to the bookshop

Le parc sous la neige
Il semblerait que l'hiver veuille s'attarder ici: il a neigé beaucoup depuis quelques jours, en tout cas pour les standards anglais. Un gros centimètre environ, là où on est, ce qui crée des routes bloquées et du chaos partout. Cela dit, ça crée des paysages saisissants, par exemple le parc près du travail. Je me suis promené là hier et c'était vraiment magnifique.
Thursday, 1 March 2018
Griff the Dragon
Today is the first of March, which means Saint David's Day, which is also the national day of Wales, as he is their patron saint. I have one very specific memory of the day, which I told here. But to commemorate this year, I have decided to present on this blog another member of my son's plush menagerie. This is Griff the Dragon, who is very Welsh, as we bought him during our stay in Cardiff. Wolfie was quite fond of him when we bought Griff. He cuddles him a bit less nowadays, maybe because Griff is a bit small. But Griff is out of the teddies' bag today and ready to celebrate his homeland's national day with little Wolfie.