The first week of the school holidays passed in a flash with the kids half at holiday camp and half at home engaged in creative pursuits like colouring or repeatedly hitting each other over the head.
I feel your pain with our phone numbers. Boutique Orange in Valence got so fed up with me mangling my number they reached under the counter and produced a dyno label machine. Result! Now when anyone barks a request for the digits, I whip out my phone, flip it over, and make them do the work squinting at the numbers.
I hear you on the numbers and much prefer how the French speaking Belgians and Swiss do it... Much more straightforward than the French, but still French! Also agree with your other readers on your humor and writing style. Always great.
I’m sorry for all your travails, but your post made me laugh—the children bopping each other on the head!—which I needed today, as I got the result of a biopsy I had on my lower left calf. Basal cell carcinoma so Mohs surgery in late August. I had the same procedure on my nose many years ago—no picnic—so I’m glad this one is on my leg! Listen people! Go get skin check ups every year! No joke. (And I agree: Dorie IS A TREASURE!) Bonne Fette Nationale! 🇫🇷❤️
The arrival of your substack makes stop whatever I am doing and read every bit. Thanks for your bright light spirit and personal insights!
I feel your pain with our phone numbers. Boutique Orange in Valence got so fed up with me mangling my number they reached under the counter and produced a dyno label machine. Result! Now when anyone barks a request for the digits, I whip out my phone, flip it over, and make them do the work squinting at the numbers.
I hear you on the numbers and much prefer how the French speaking Belgians and Swiss do it... Much more straightforward than the French, but still French! Also agree with your other readers on your humor and writing style. Always great.
I’m sorry for all your travails, but your post made me laugh—the children bopping each other on the head!—which I needed today, as I got the result of a biopsy I had on my lower left calf. Basal cell carcinoma so Mohs surgery in late August. I had the same procedure on my nose many years ago—no picnic—so I’m glad this one is on my leg! Listen people! Go get skin check ups every year! No joke. (And I agree: Dorie IS A TREASURE!) Bonne Fette Nationale! 🇫🇷❤️
Ha ha numbers! I remember trying to learn French at school and numbers were alway tricky! Hope your medical check ups are ok. Kisses 😘
Not only do I love the humour in your columns, I love your photos. Thank you for the pleasure you bring me every week.
Now, all your readers are mentally trying to parse their telephone numbers in French. Thanks for that! 😂 and Bon Fete! 🇫🇷