Have a pleasant weekend from the center of nowhere in France! | EUROtoday

Good morning!

Next week we have fun May Day – considered one of 4 nationwide holidays this month in France. The outlets are stuffed with the scent of lily of the valley crops, because it's a practice in France to provide them to family members on 1st May (you will discover out extra about why we do that within the podcast hyperlink under).

My chickens in the meantime, are stuffed with spring fever, clucking coyly at cockerels George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Gregory Peck. I do know you suppose that I’m a bit cuckoo in the case of animals, however my pal Annette, who lives a few villages away, additionally retains chickens and geese, many greater than me, is much more cuckoo than I’m!

Once I visited her and she or he was strolling so slowly that I believed she was in ache till she confessed that she in truth had an egg in her bra. A rooster had been sitting on a duck egg for a couple of weeks and determined to desert it, however Annette mentioned when she picked it up, she may hear the infant fowl cheeping inside, and to maintain it heat she popped it inside her bra. That night time she went to dinner on the home of some pals, with the egg nonetheless in situ which each every now and then cheeped out loud. She mentioned she didn't dare inform her pals as a result of they’d suppose she was bonkers – it drove them mad making an attempt to determine the place the noise was coming from. The egg hatched the subsequent day, a cute, fluffy little duckling that lived in the home till it was sufficiently old to fend for itself, named Titania, after the Queen of the Fairies in Midsummer's Night Dream in fact.

Last week I nipped throughout the border of Pas-de-Calais the place I stay, and into Picardy to go to the brand new International Language middle which is a really fascinating exploration of the historical past of language – French and others. I'll be writing about it for the subsequent concern of The Good Life France Magazine (subscribe right here at no cost)! Next week I'm off to historic Arras in northern France, and after that I'll be scampering up the aspect of extinct volcanoes and exploring Clermont-Ferrand within the Auvergne space within the southeast France. Come with me by way of Instagram as I put up images and movies on my journeys.

Wishing you an excellent weekend, wherever you might be, from my little rural nook of northern France,
Kisses
Janine
Editor The Good Life France

Top photograph: It's wisteria time in France! This pretty photograph of Sarlat in spring is by Pat Bruce

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Janine Marsh is Author of My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream, My Four Seasons in France: A Year of the Good Life and Always France: Living the Dream in Rural France all obtainable as e book, print & audio, on Amazon all over the place & all good bookshops on-line. Her new guide How to be French – a celebration of the French life-style and Art of dwellingis out now – a have a look at the French lifestyle.

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