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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I didn't have the chance to run this by Mom and get her permission to post her photo… so I'm taking advantage of the fact that her computer is broken. She can kill me later (for the fabricated "rain dance" caption) when her laptop is repaired and she catches up on all the missed editions of French Word-A-Day. I know she misses the stories–and especially … Continue reading une mare