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Little Calamities

Handy tool in every French home

Visited Cassis last week with my belle-mère and my father. At La Plage du Bestouan we saw this charming home perched over the sea. More photos and videos of this past week's happenings–at Instagram. la serpillière (sair-pee-yair)     : floor cloth, mop, swab une pompe serpillière = utility pump for draining flood waterla serpillière gaufrée = cloth with a deep waffle pattern, handy for soaking … Continue reading Handy tool in every French home

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Little Calamities

Thunder, Lightening, and a flood

Best to be prepared! Good, Braise, one can never be too prévoyant… for holidays–or for the weather! Read on… (photo taken in Ste. Cécile-les-Vignes. We moved away from the vineyard one year ago. alerte météo (a-lairt-may-tay-oh) : weather warning Example Sentence: (Audio files will return, we’re a little sunk at the moment…) Une alerte météo, ou une météorologique, est un bulletin d’avertissement de l’imminence de … Continue reading Thunder, Lightening, and a flood

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