Sunday, 31 March 2024
Praise Judas!
Licorne de Pâques?
Mozart's Agnus Dei for Easter
Happy Easter everyone! I always add Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to my Easter and this year is no exception. I shared this very video before, but it is worth sharing it again.
Le gâteau de Pâques
Joyeuses Pâques tout le monde! C'est devenu une tradition ici, je ne sais pas trop pourquoi ("parce que vous êtes excessifs" dirait ma mère) de faire un gâteau pour l'occasion. En plus du reste, je veux dire. Mais je ne le fais pas seul: Wolfie gère les opérations. Il a aussi cassé les oeufs (enfin, un oeuf) et a fait pas mal de brassage. C'est un peu "son" gâteau. Alors il en est très fier.
Saturday, 30 March 2024
Easter Lamb Cake Season?
Écureuil de Pâques
Friday, 29 March 2024
Fish & Chips for Good Friday
Où sont les chocolats de Pâques?
Mozart for Good Friday
It is becoming a tradition for Good Friday (and also Easter) on this blog to put something of Mozart. His music makes most of my Easter playlist. I have shared the Kyrie from his Great Mass in C Minor time and again, but it fits this day so well, I have to do it again. Here it is sung by French soprano Julie Fuchs, who makes her débuts on Vraie Fiction (ha, ha!). She is also really cool as a person, check her on social media, she reallly is fun. Anywya, now onto more solemn matters, enjoy this great piece of music.
Question existentielle (387)
Cette question existentielle pascale est un peu le contraire de la question existentielle 44, posée en 2011. Alors la voici:
-Quelle est la figurine de Pâques en chocolat la plus incongrue et la moins pascale?
Thursday, 28 March 2024
Preparing for Easter
We are Maundy Thursday, which for the religious among you (although I doubt many if any read this blog), means an important celebration in the time right before Easter. For the Godless heathen that I am, it is... well, it is the last working day before the Easter holidays and the moment when I start panicking before I haven't prepared enough for Easter. No, just kidding, I think we will be all right, albeit I do find that Easter comes a tad too early for my liking this year. Anyway, I will take it easy this evening after work and maybe even tomorrow, but I will also make time to get things ready with Wolfie. When you are a parent, Easter is all about the children.
Canard de Pâques
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Writing in the train?
I have been wanting to blog about this for a while. A few weeks ago, I read this article on the Guardian, from author Benjamin Dean: My unlikely cure for writer's block: I catch a train to Cambridge. I don't know Dean, never read any of his books, but he seems to be a nice guy. Writer's block or not, I never read in the train. I do however read more and a lot when I travel by train. Call it my cure for reader's block, which has somewhat increased in recent years, maybe because I don't commute or travel by train anymore. I do think also that my mind wanders more in a train, I mean even more than it usually does. So I can easily believe that train travels are more inductive to creativity. Maybe we should have a writing workshop in a train. That would be nice, if nothing else.
Encore Joe Bine
Goldfinger for Spy Wednesday
Today is Holy Wednesday, also called, more dramatically... Spy Wednesday. I prefer to call it the latter. It has nothing to do with real spies or spy fiction, however I take this opportunity to mention that a few days ago, last Saturday, was the 65th anniversary of the publication of Goldfinger. I learned about it on the official Facebook page of Ian Fleming. To celebrate its publication, they are selling a couple of cool fancy stuff, go check it out. I just thought the novel is a fitting read for Spy Wednesday. The film would make a great watch too, come to think of it, especially if you are not into Biblical things or fluffy bunny stuff. Butgive the novel a try.
















