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Stings and Stumbling Blocks
1 minuteYesterday’s bike ride provided Poppy with one of her little life’s firsts: a bee sting. But hearing us say that she got stung, she calls it her ‘stung’. She handled the pain extremely well though. What a strong little lady. It’s a 14km roundtrip to the park where the stung stung, an otherwise tranquil journey […]
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Un Mélange
3 minutesTonight, as I was flicking through Poppy’s MP3 player (one her Uncle Matt did swapsies with Daddy a while ago), trying to find her something mellow to listen to as she falls asleep, I came across my Dawson’s Creek soundtrack. (This MP3 player has all kinds of extremely random stuff on it, including theological sermons, […]
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In Summer, the Song Sings Itself
1 minuteHaving arrived in country just in time to bring in the New Year we have the privilege of getting to know our corner of Gaul one season at a time. Winter was beautiful and white. Spring was fresh and green. Summer is hot and energetic. By July, seven twelfths of the year has blossomed–like the […]
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Can You Read?
1 minuteIt’s hard for native speakers to avoid the conclusion that you are uneducated, or stupid even, if you speak their language less than satisfactorily. On Thursday a woman asked me if I knew how to read. I was dumbfounded and so simply replied by saying, “Qui? Molière?” She laughed.