I’m closing an existing blog and, rather than lose the posts have put them on a page – ‘Exploring France’ -which you can find above the header photograph alongside ‘Home’ and ‘About’.
I’ve put two up here on the main blog previously…but I think they best belong in a category of their own, describing as they do some early visits to France…long before I ever came to live there.
It strikes me as being a rather clumsy process….one following on from the other…so if anyone has any idea as to how to better present them I’d be glad to hear!
But, for the monent, there they are…demerdez-vous!
The Venomous Bead 
Thanks for that – even tho I didn’t actually tell you so I really enjoyed the first two
Cathy
Life can be too full to comment at times, can’t it!
I’m glad you enjoyed them…it all seems so far away in time now…but so very close in terms of memory.
“..it all seems so far away in time now…but so very close in terms of memory.”
I understand that!
Yes, I enjoy the posts you write about past times too.
One cannot help but feel that perhaps you should be selling these delightful tales rather than giving them away for free.
Perhaps in your second bestseller maybe?
You have a point.
My problem is that these posts were on a blog I’m about to lose…so I thought I’d keep them somewhere handy
I agree dear lady, but would suggest a virtual safe. Far too good to give away. Best saved for your first encore.
Knowing me…I’d lose the virtual key!
I love the photo. A swift roll through Exploring France did not give me a glimpse of it, so I’ll leave that page for a winter’s afternoon.
Although I do not speak the language, there is little ambiguity about the sign. I thought the little yellow sticker might say “have heart” until I saw MERDEZ! Something about death. So, I looked it up. Preserver. Even more hilarious. You warmed up a cold morning.
That sign took me straight back to France!
The sticker is lovely as a commentary…the ‘root’ word you need is ‘merde’ – shit…so the meaning runs like this
‘Sort it out for yourself….’ or get yourself out of the shit….
Better yet! I may need to have a gross printed up. Adhesive backs and everything. There are so many places to stick them.
Oh yes! So many appropriate targets!
wonderful! success with the book!
I’m trying to sort stuff out into themes….just the thing for a rainy afternoon! And several more to come!
A good idea to separate them out, but I’m afraid I have no idea how to arrange them in a different way. Thanks for enlarging my French vocabulary too. Very expressive. 🙂
Well, there are other translations…
I’ve been looking on WordPress and it seems Ican do sub pages…but then there’s all sorts of stuff about having references on the side bar and altering URLs…so i’ll have to look again.