Si vous possédez une bibliothèque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut. If you possess a library and a garden, you have all that you need. —Cicero. (Two garden sheds (cabanons) in Soave, Italy). le jardin (zhar-dehn) noun, masculin : garden Do you know any "jardin" terms and expressions? Please share them here or click to see what others have … Continue reading jardin
A child care center in Flayosc. Seems like yesterday that my son went to the crèche… read on in today’s column (a re-blog from 2 years ago…). une apocope (ah-poh-cowp) : the dropping of one or more syllables (or letters) at the end of a word Ado, MacDo, frigo, véto, resto… the French seem to love abbreviation. This is not to say that others of … Continue reading apocope
Jackie. This is my daughter and she tells the best stories, just like her grand-mère, Jules. (photo taken in 2010) "It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the … Continue reading beurre
Chez David and Tessa's this weekend some of us spoke with exaggerated English accents while others of us spoke with authentic ones. (Still others of us simply clucked.) pêle-mêle (pel-mel) adverb : pell-mell, higgledy-piggledy, any old way, at random, chaotically noun: multiple photo frame A fun synonym or two to pêle-mêle is en vrac or tohu-bohu Audio File and Example Sentence Download WAV … Continue reading pele-mele
