Firstly a huge thank you to everyone who upgraded to a paid subscription this past week which resulted in over €300 donated to the United Nations Population Fund to send emergency birth kits where they’re needed most. It’s a drop in the ocean but everything we can do to help a mother have a safer birth experience helps. Mille mercis!
This week I made a muddle of the French language, confusing degustation (tasting) with deguisement (disguise), sending my small children to school in full costume when really they were supposed to take a plate of crêpes to celebrate carnaval, and entreprennent (to start something) with entrepreneur (business person/owner), among many other miscommunications. Mercury isn’t even in retrograde so I’ll just have to accept my incapacity to take in any more French. My bra…
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