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I hope that you just and yours are effectively.

Here we’re anticipating some snow to reach within the subsequent week or so, it isn’t that frequent the place I stay within the north of France however each few years we get a good quantity – sufficient for youths to toboggan down the edges of the steep hills that makes up the Seven Valleys the place I stay. Bread Man, who delivers bread, croissants, truffles and pastries to our space in all weathers, is planning to make snowball truffles as he calls them – pastry instances crammed with crunchy chewy meringue on the bottom, then white chocolate crème and topped with candy coconut flakes, alongside his scrumptious Galette des Rois truffles that we’ll all be consuming on 6 January (discover out why!).

It’s conventional for the French to want you Happy New Year from 1 January and all through the month, not earlier than as my neighbors remind me once I neglect! “Happy New Year” is the frequent greeting right here, and I’ve taught Bread Man a Scottish conventional greeting which a buddy despatched to me this yr: “Lang may your lum reek.”

Since this was the primary time I’ve ever been wished a reeking lum, I needed to look it up and it apparently means, actually, “long may your chimney smoke” and it is a heartfelt option to want somebody prosperity, good well being and heat for the yr forward. I’ll take that! Bread Man, who for a number of years has been instructing me French whereas I train him English, likes to know genuine English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish phrases, and lapped this one up, although his Scottish accent wants a bit of labor. So should you ever come to the north of France and meet a baker who seems like Super Mario with a beret and in January, alongside together with your baguette and snowball cake, he mutters “lang may your lum reek,” you will know why!

I hope you will have a number of enjoyable plans for 2025 – why not be part of me in Paris for a week-long tour to immerse your self within the coronary heart of the town? There are just some areas left for this very unique, out of the strange go to which has been organized by an expert tour firm in order that all the pieces is taken care of from probably the most fabulous eating places, lodge, transport, websites, exhibits and secret locations. I’m so excited to be internet hosting this tour and sharing ‘my’ Paris with you. Find out extra at: tourwithabsolutely.com

Janine
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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 out there as e book, print & audio, on Amazon all over the place & all good bookshops on-line. Her newest e-book How to be French – is a celebration of the French way of life and artwork of dwelling.

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