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I'm not very interested by the celebrations of our national day, it's a kind of folklore every country has and probably needs for his identity, but I don't mind them either, as long as I don't have to participate. The only 14 juillet parade I ever saw was in 1989 because we celebrated the bicentenary of the Revolution and so there was a particular ( Read more... )

And it's already begun. If you're not more interested than me in football, you probably don't know that Italy and France are fighting tonight in the World Cup finale. I've heard car horns and crackers outside for more than one hour but the last minutes have been even louder, so I guess the match has begun ( Read more... )

but I have a good reason. No, strike that, I have a lot of good reasons ! ( If you don't care, there's no point in clicking )

I wanted to post earlier this week but... I think I'll need a vacation from my vacation ( Read more... )

One of Alex' entries made me think of this poem of La Fontaine we all learn here in the first classes, La cigale et la fourmi. I've always been more of a "cigale", money interests me only if it's able to help me being happy and that means using it, not keeping it away ( Read more... )

Summer doesn't seem so far today. Finally ! Last week was cold and rainy, 14° in the afternoon, and now they announce 31° for next week ! That's France for you ;) I never know what to wear when I dress in the morning ( Read more... )

A lovely lady asked me to share with her the files I had saved of Top Gear and Soccer Aid, so here they are for anyone who would be interested. Ewan is so adorable in Top Gear, don't miss it ;) Top Gear part 1, Top Gear part 2, Soccer Aid.

The files are .flv, so you need the VLC media player to watch them. It's very easy to use and it plays ( Read more... )

Time to celebrate the end of my vacation. It was good, even if it was of course too short ;) I've been playing like crazy with Photoshop but my interest these days lies much with some French movies I've seen recently so I don't think many of you will be interested too. Anyway, here's a first post about two actors and three movies. ( Albert & Christopher )

Just a little thing to encourage you to watch A very long engagement, as you talked about it earlier this week.

( Marion )