Friday, 31 March 2023
Japanese tea-bowl
Mon mars (et le vôtre)
Bon, ben mars se termine aujourd'hui (cliché retentissant ici). Comment a été votre mois de mars? Moi, assez ordinaire: je perds mon emploi (c'est ma dernière journée de travail aujourd'hui). Au moins il y a du mouvement dans ma recherche d'emploi et ma femme va commencer un nouvel emploi au cours du mois d'avril. Mais mettons que ça n'a pas été un mois facile et que je suis bien content qu'il finisse. Et vous?
Thursday, 30 March 2023
About Michelangealo's David (from The Simpsons)
There is a certain stupid controversy in the US at the mooment. I will not comment on it, I will just leave here this clip from The Simpsons. In this episode. Yes, they were prophetic. And I'm not the only one saying it. I hope the clip makes you feel a little bit better.
L'escoufle sur le chemin de l'école
Dans notre petite ville, nous avons comme voisins ailés des milans royaux (mais je préfère les appeler escoufles). On les voit souvent voler, parfois se percher sur les arbres, mais il est plus rare de les voir au sol. Or, c'est ce qui est arrivé, lorsque nous marchions de retour de l'école de petit loup. Nous sommes tombés presque nez à bec avec cet escoufle, qui mangeait je ne sais pas quoi sur l'asphalte. Il s'est envolé avant que l'on puisse s'en approcher plus, mais j'ai eu le temps de prendre cette photo.
Waterstones and me
Something struck me recently, I don't know why: it has been ages since I set foot in a Waterstones bookshop. There is one relatively close, in a nearby town, but I try to avoid said town because, well, it's ugly and dodgy. The Waterstones there is maybe the only place I love, with the library. Last time I went to this particular franchise. was probably two years ago or so, before going to the cinema, I only went briefly and did not buy anything. I used to love going to Waterstones, used to do it fairly often. I think our local bookshop really reduced my need to go there. Unless it is a big shop of the franchise, the choice isn't that different and I always prefer to encourage local businesses. All the same, I'd like to revisit a Waterstones at some point.
Le sable et l'eau
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
A Milwaukee stand?
Le Colporteur
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Railway reading in a nutshell
Tintin: qui a enlevé le Professeur Tournesol?
Monday, 27 March 2023
Updates on the work front
As you may remember, I am being made redundant. It came off as a bit of a surprise and since then I have been job hunting. I have been to some interviews, but so far none have worked out, either I didn't suit the role or the role didn't suit me. Thankfully, things are nevertheless looking better. First, because my wife got a job last Friday. It will start in the middle of April. It's only a temping job, but it will keep pressure off me for a few months. Also, I will have at least one interview this week and I am fairly confident about this one: the role suits my background pretty much perfectly and I have a pretty good feeling about it. And I know I am getting noticed for other roles. So yes, things are looking better.
Maux printaniers
Bon, petit loup a été malade la semaine dernière. Pas beaucoup, mais une petite fièvre bien vilaine, qui l'a gardé à la maison le vendredi. Bien entendu, je l'ai chopé tout de suite après: dès samedi soir, j'avais le frisson et je ne me sens toujours pas tout à fait remis. Chaque année, c'est pareil: aux alentours du mois de mars je me tape une fièvre ou un rhume. Souvent, ça arrive au changement d'heure. C'est pire depuis que je suis papa. Je crois que le printemps est une saison plus porteuse de virus et de contagion que toutes les autres. Enfin, c'est mon expérience.
Sunday, 26 March 2023
Essential torches
I blogged back in January about the two torches my wife bought me for Christmas, to replace my old one that had broken now. I said how useful torches are, essential even. Well, yesterday I was reminded of another way a torch can be useful: when you walk out at night, especially when you are alone. My wife went to celebrate the birthday of a friend and our neighbourhood does not have very good street lights. So she borrowed one of my torches. She felt much safer and I felt reassured. I always carry a torch when I am out and about and I know I will have to walk back home at night time. I think you should never leave without one.
Le vieux foyer
Saturday, 25 March 2023
The Guinness Cake gentrified
Mercedes en bois de grange
Friday, 24 March 2023
Orange Clothes
Well, maybe it is a strange case of synchronicity, maybe I have just become more aware of that. So I blogged on Wednesday about orange vehicles. In January 2022, I blogged about orange coats. And since last Wednesday, I see orange everywhere. Particularly in pieces of clothing: coats, yes, but also woolie hats. Sometimes they are bright orange, more often the kind of dark, fiery, almost red, ochre type of orange. You know the one. It seems that orange clothes are everywhere, a sort of quiet fashion statement. I love orange as a colour, so I don't complain, but I just find it strange that I notice its omnipresence nowadays.
Hurlevent
Au moment où j'écris ces lignes, il vente très fort dehors. Genre à écorner les boeufs. À chaque fois qu'il vente dans ce pays, j'ai une pensée pour le classique Wuthering Heights d'Emily Brontë, connu en français comme Les Hauts de Hurlevent. Le tire original, je n'arrive pas à le prononcer, soit dit en passant. Je l'ai lu au cégep, ça fai de cela plus de 25 ans. Je ne l'ai jamais relu depuis, il faudrait peut-être. Le nom Hurlevent prend tout son sens lorsqu'il vente dans ce pays. Ca devrait être un terme.








