L’autre jour nous avions le plaisir douteux de partager le petit déjeuner dans notre chambre d’hôte avec un groupe de quatre Bavarois, dont au moins un parlais acceptablement bien le français. Notre hôte leur expliquait les différents pains, gâteaux et confitures qui ornaient la table à manger. Je me creusais déjà le cerveau pour trouver […]
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Asterix The other day I took out “Asterix and Son” from my Asterix collection, to read it again in a new light after several years. The “new light” revealed itself to be, rather unexpectedly, a few lessons for all new parents. I knew there were things to be learned from Asterix, but childcare? Be careful […]
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Given names The significance of names has changed over the ages. In Ancient Rome, so I have read, they stopped bothering about first names for girls at some point. In Eastern Frisia, my granny’s home, children would receive the same names over and over again from generation to generation, and if in those big families […]
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