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Mairi Craw in the Pyrénées Orientales (...)
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  • FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 7
    FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 7 with Gill Storey In July I talked about various movements which arose out of Romanticism, but later poets took up the cause of Symbolism (also known as the Decadents). They wished to move away from the somewhat impersonal standpoint of the Parnassiens, breaking (...) read more...


  • FRENCH POEMS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY AND SPRINGTIME
    FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY with Gill Storey In school, some of us read French poems and even enjoyed them but others did not. To fill in the gaps for people who missed out on the pleasure and to show that French poetry is not so different from the poems in English which we can all enjoy, I (...) read more...


  • FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 5
    FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 5 with Gill Storey This last week I have been working very hard in our potager, trying to catch up with the delays caused by the weather in spring. As I was toiling, a few lines kept coming into my mind, and I thought this would be a good poem to pass on. When we (...) read more...


  • FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 4 Maytime
    FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 3 - MAYTIME with Gill Storey Holiday times in France and England are not so different. In England, many poems were written about the pleasure of going “Maying” – going out into the country to gather may blossom with your girlfriends, and meeting young men and (...) read more...


  • FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - Il pleure dans mon cœur
    FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - Il pleure dans mon cœur with Gill Storey November is the saddest month. It is heralded by Hallowe’en – the feast of all souls - a very chancy time in older beliefs - and followed by Toussaint (All Saints), when the French visit their graves and (...) read more...


  • FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - La Cigale et la Fourmi
    FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 9 La Cigale et la Fourmi with Gill Storey Autumn is now well underway. The grapes have been gathered and the villages are redolent with the smell of crushed grapes – not always the greatest perfume. The careful gardeners and housewives are building up stores (...) read more...


  • FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 8
    FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 8 by Gill Storey Now the end of summer slides imperceptibly into autumn. At present, most of the trees are still green and fresh, although the horse chestnuts’ (conkers) leaves are beginning to turn. The valley temperatures are still high, in the late (...) read more...


  • FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - Cuckoos
    FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 3 - Cuckoos with Gill Storey I was reading a note of a radio programme on BBC R4 where a Professor Nick Davies was discussing the “extraordinary winged parasite, the cuckoo, whose unmistakeable (but rare) is usually first heard in mid-April.” It is not rare here in (...) read more...


  • FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - Carnival Time
    FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY - 2 Carnival Time with Gill Williams English folk customs included the fun of Shrove Tuesday, with pancakes and pancake races, where people had a last blow-out before the hardest part of winter, when food supplies were falling short and meat was almost unobtainable (...) read more...


  • Almost French
    Almost French by Sarah Turnbull Reviewed by Polly Cannie Click on cover to buy Almost French is an entertaining and heart-warming story of Australian journalist Sarah Turnbull who is most definitely a fish out of water and trying to blend into one of the most romantic cities in the world. (...) read more...



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