Category: Daily life

British Phlegm illustrated

Reading the following article on the BBC website concerning yesterday afternoon’s rioting in London, I came accross these paragraphs which perfectly illustrate British Character:

As protesters surged, a succession of windows were smashed and demonstrators flooded into the entrance.

Security guards scattered and the handful of police inside were completely overrun. As the police tried to stop them, protestors clicked a battery of cameras in their faces.

A few yards away, in surreal calm, guests carried on eating in the adjacent Pizza Express.

It was a bizarre sight inside the building.

The full article is here.

The mystery newspaper

I found today’s Ouest-France (our regional newspaper) in the letter box this lunch time. It is delivered in the area every morning before 7 am. There is only one problem: I haven’t subscribed. So, it must belong to one of my neighbours, but who?

Like a good Sherlock Holmes, I went to investigate. I phoned the paper who confirmed that two of our closest neighbours do receive the newspaper: n°24 and 25. So I went to ask them thinking they’d be glad to get their paper. But both of them have received their copy this morning. The paper is still without a home. So I decided to read it, hoping it won’t happen again.

Children’s amazing memory

Children have an amazing ability to absorb anything and remember them/ I mentionned before that we are learning some of the Psalms in the Huguenot Psalter in our Family worship. It is very simple. We chose one, learn the tune, and sing it every evening for a month or so. We started with Psalm one, and we have moved on to Psalm 25.

Now, what happens. The children know the first paragraph of Psalm 1, and we can sometime hear them sing it. Jean-Baptiste even mentioned some time ago that he had sung it in the courtyard at school.