Quick blog post to celebrate one anniversary: my wife and I have been married for 14 years today. The end of August is kind of fitting for a wedding day: it is a month of changes and transition. We probably will not do all that much to celebrate this year, being in the middle of the working week. Also, we are busy preparing Wolfie (and ourselves!) to his first year of school. We might do something bigger for our fifteen years anniversary. Once you have children, every anniversary becomes all about them in any case.
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
14
Hot doyes stimés
Monday, 30 August 2021
To rediscover Mary Shelley
Les tournesols à planter
Sunday, 29 August 2021
The smell of bonfire in the night
Last night for a few minutes, waiting for Domino to get back home, as he was out and about (he often is out and about). I could smell in the air bonfire. It might have been from pretty far away because I could not hear the fire and the smell was faint, but I could definitely smell it. Or maybe it was near and it was a neighbour burning incense or something. I love the smell of bonfire in the night. It's one of these things that I find very appeasing.
La marche nuptiale (Brassens)
Bon, aujourd'hui n'est pas mon anniversaire de mariage, mais comme on s'y approche et comme c'était l'anniversaire de mariage de mes parents récemment, j'ai en tête cette chanson de Georges Brassens, que je partage aujourd'hui. Les circonstances de mes noces étaient très différentes, beaucoup moins dramatiques (et puis je suis plus jeune que les époux de la chanson). Mais bon, c'est une façon de souligner tant mon anniversaire de mariage que celui de mes parents.
Saturday, 28 August 2021
Writing Workship from Zoom
Big news yesterday: the hostess of our writing workshop I used to go to before the pandemic broke down has had the brilliant idea to start it all over again, this time on Zoom. I had suggested it before and it was about bloody time we'd make a move about it. It will be the Saturday every six weeks for the time being. Otherwise it will be the usual: 2,000 words of a work each, we comment on it, give advices, etc. I haven't written all that much, since I am focusing on working on that draft I sent to my editor, but I have plenty of long short stories I want to share. Crime fiction, it goes without saying. That will give me something to look forward to and hopefully it will push me to write more and stop procrastinating.
Le Salon du livre en mode hybride
Bonne nouvelle rérionale: il y aura une 57e édition du Salon du livre du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. Du 27 septembre au 3 octobre, le moment idéal dans l'année., juste au coeur de l'automne. J'ai appris aussi dans un article du Quotidien qu'elle sera en version hybride, donc virtuellement ainsi qu'en chair et en os (et en papier). C'est mieux que rien. Je m'ennuie du Salon du livre à chaque année.
Friday, 27 August 2021
A Railway Book
Une photo de la Sûreté du Québec
Quest for Tea
Here is another post on my favourite non alcoholic drink, I hope you don't mind. You may remember a tea company I blogged about back in 2016, called Jollybrew. Jollybrew sadly got bankrupted, or disappeared suddenly: the website ceased to exist and they suddenly got silent on social media. I think it was around 2019. I was really sad: once it was everywhere around here, in local shops and cafés, then suddenly Jollybrew was gone. But two days ago, as I was browsing through my blog, I clicked on the old link to Jollybrew and lo and behold, it lead to a new tea company, called... the Journey Tea Company. So it appears that they resurrected the old Jollybrew into this new entity, also based in Thame (lovely town by the way). And they must have at least some of the same blends. So now I have a new quest: find products from the Journey Tea Company.
Les animaux de nuit
Thursday, 26 August 2021
Sure sign of autumn
Image du temps qui passe
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
The Great Resignation
I don't know if my readers have heard about it, but since the last fewmonths of the pandemic, there is a phenomenon on the job market that has been observed, called the Great Resignation. Basically, members of the workforce have been massively quitting their job, changing career and soon. It's funny, because I have been witnessing it in my current and last job. Heck, I have been part of it, in a way! But yes, this week a colleague in my team resigned due to personality clash and my direct manager found a better position somewhere else. And I counted another person resigning for a better job. I'm glad to know that the employees have the upper hand for now and maybe for a while. I'm happy with my job, but it's good to know there are options available. I remember how miserable I used to feel not solong ago. Now I feel more in control of my career.
"Entre le néant et le chagrin..."
"Entre le néant et le chagrin, j'aime mieux le lard, comme disent les Auvergnats". Ceci est une citation tirée de La position du tireur couché de Jean-Patrick Manchette. Je suis retombé sur celle-ci par hasard hier et ça m'a frappé comme c'était bon. Je me rappelle de l'histoire, mais c'est la prose de Manchette que je veux redécouvrir, parce que je ne crois pas l'avoir appréciée pleinement à l'époque. Je n'ai lu qu'un roman de lui, mais je devrais en lire plus, et relire La position un coup parti.
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
"Back to School" for real this time
Journal "intime"
Monday, 23 August 2021
About Afghanistan
I found this meme online and I thought it was very funny. I was wondering what to say about the Talibans taking over Afghanistan again, or indeed if I should say anything at all. And I thought this meme truly said it all. It was the most eloquent one. So this is all I'm going to say about Afghanistan. There are so many specialists about it, all of a sudden, I might as well not add into it.











