I came to France with a simple golden rule; Go Native. Speak French, Act French, and Be French. Imagine then, the cognitive dissonance that came about when I was invited to McDonald’s; on the one hand, I was invited by a French person to join in, on the other hand it was to do something [...]
More petition signing today. Less successful than yesterday for some reason, everyone we spoke to were either tourists, (Je ne suis pas d’ici) or just amazingly busy (Pas de temps, pas de temps, pas de temps) though not as many were actually in favour of the new tramline. Yesterday I very nearly saw someone get hit [...]
A bit of whimsy on what will otherwise be a fairly gloomy (yet sunny) polling day. I’m just about to go off and vote, but now, this: The day before yesterday, I wrote complaining about how there had been no Cream Soda available in the shops for a week. Yesterday, I went in to have [...]
We interrupt the usual blogging to bring you this massive scandal. For over a week now, I have been trying to purchase a bottle of Cream Soda (and the accompanying ice cream), to no avail. Despite best efforts, at any given moment there are no bottles of the aforementioned soda in either Sainsbury’s or Co-Op. [...]
