Monthly Archives: October 2006

Happy Halloween

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Happy Halloween Happy Halloween

 
 

Update
I see that I have been misleading you. Halloween is not at all a French tradition. For totally commercial reasons it started to be celebrated some years ago. Kids don’t go trick or treating but you will see them dressed up here and there.
I happen to like the colour orange and took lots of photos of pumpkins when I was in New England. So the mosaic above is not made of French pumpkins but of American ones.

Happy birthday, Judy!

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Happy birthday Happy Birthday, Judy

Don’t forget to go and wish Judy at JustAskJudy a happy birthday! She has a great post today that gave me a laugh!

Can you believe that I didn’t have one single picture of a frog, real or other among my 12,000 and some photos? What a shame for a Frenchwoman! ;) So I borrowed a photo from JonnaMarco on flickr and used fd’s Captioner for the captions.

Cowboy

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To listen to this post in French, click below

Perhaps because my parents had named me Claude, and Claude is a name both for boys and girls in France, I always wanted to be a boy. I was what the French call un garçon manqué, a tomboy. When I was a child, every year there was a fancy dress ball at the town hall in district and all my girl-friends would dress like princesses or fairies. Not me! To me it was the ideal opportunity to dress as a Captain Hook or a musketeer. My best costume ever was a cowboy’s. I had the Texan hat, a toy revolver, hanging from a belt, a red scarf, neatly tied around my neck I can’t remember where I had found cowboys’ boots and can remember how wonderful it felt to walk with what I thought to be a cowboys’ gait. I had even drawn a fine moustache on my upper lip.
The only problem was no boy wanted to dance with a cowboy and no girl would dance with a girl! Nothing is perfect!

  1. First 50 Words triggered my memory and gave me the idea for this post.
  2. I made my cowboy avatar at the mini-mizer, where you can make your own ;)
  3. These days, this is more how I would see myself.
  4. When I first thought of a pic for this post, I rather fancied the flamenco moo, but she was a ‘she’, so I rejected her.

Tempus fugit

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8 o’clock already! How had she not woken up earlier? Since she was retired, she had noticed that she was waking up later and later. « Nothing wrong with that », she thought. « I am just taking my time ».
Taking your time… one of the privileges of age. Perhaps because you had both more time and less time. Less time because you had lived the largest part of your life and you were going to die. More time, because you didn’t HAVE TO do things right away. Anything could wait till tomorrow. She turned over and went back to sleep.

Has any of you heard anything from Susan at Sazsecrets? Not a word on her blog since October 1st.

Elderbloggers fun and a blog grand opening

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wiredPhonecon: Connecting people

The first Elderbloggers Phonecon took place yesterday afternon (Paris time), and it was a lot of fun. Lots of people on the phone, from all places in the US, and one caller from France (me). I was hoping some Europeans would call but they probably didn’t have time.
Lots of things were talked about, politics, blogging, aches and pains, rodeos, jokes, storytelling… People calling from home, airport, bathrooms at work, from cell-phones on their way to work, there were both bloggers and non-bloggers, talkers and lurkers hoverers, I got to talk to people who until yesterday were only names in our comment boxes or blog titles, and it was so nice to be able to put a voice on them! No doubt Ronni from Time Goes By who we have to thank for this, will give a list of the callers.
We missed Millie Garfield would couldn’t be there yesterday and Savtadotty, who could get through from Israel and lots of other people but I’m sure there’ll be another time and more people will join in.

Now something grand happened. One of our great commenters, Joared, actually started a blog!!!!
It’s called Along the way, the first post is entitled Seduction, which should arouse your interest. Tout un programme, as we say in French!
Don’t miss it!

What else can I say? When I hung up, my head was swimming from so much talking, laughing and friendship.
Ronni, all I have to say is: thank you and by all means, let’s do it again!!!

Elderbloggers phonecon on other blogs

  1. Naomi from A Little Red Hen wrote: Blogging, the Possibilities
  2. Ronni from Time Goes By at Elderblog Phonecon success
  3. Elaine from Kalilily Time at Hooray for the Elderbloggers PhoneCon-ers!…
  4. Jeneane Sessum from Allied at Elderblogger Phonecon a success