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Monday, 25 August 2025

Dimanche Le 24 Aout

 Start the day clean! At the Élephant Bleu...where the water is recycled.. essential at any time...

Then a walk to feed the fish...I will add more later... breakfast time and blogger isn't cooperative!



Then a short walk before our day out





Starting at the football club that Friend's son#2 plays for


A new phrase for me..." Ici le crédit est hors-jeu"...Here, credit is "offside"!!!








Over an hour and a half hour's drive away, but a good day..good playing despite over physical opponents...a picnic on a bench beneath pine trees before the game...listening to conversation in the car before and after..and being brave enough to have a conversation with a Sant Brice supporter in the last half hour of the game...Mainly in French..as her English was 1960's school English, equivalent of my French!!


14 comments:

  1. I had to look it up…..Blue Elephant is a strange name for a car wash. Do you know the reason for that?

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    1. I suppose because the elephant sprays itself from its trunk...like a hose....and it recycles the water and prevents pollution from going to the environment...so blue.

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  2. Bit slow on the uptake aren’t I this morning. I was thinking green = environmentally friendly forgetting we’re talking about water

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  3. Thanks for teaching me a new French term -- Élephant Bleu!

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    1. And I've learnt a new one too..."ici le crédit est hors-jeu"... Here, credit is "offside"!!

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  4. Here, credit is "offside!" Is this a football term?
    What does it mean?
    It looks like great weather for a day out and about.

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    1. It means don't ask for credit at the bar in the clubhouse!!

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  5. Still looking mighty parched there!

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  6. Lovely photos. Everything looks very dry.

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  7. More fabulous stone barns and batements - or are they villas?

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    1. Houses and barns in the centre of the hamlet

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