Alan and Pat live and work in Bordeaux. Alan is a pastor and Pat was a nurse. Now we work with UFM worldwide. Read on! (If you'd like to know what took us to Bordeaux, then start with the archives from September 2004)
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See if you can name the birds in English. I think the chappie lying down is part of the thing with the boiler suits. Either that or he's just tired.
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Anonymous said…
sparrowhawk; swift and little owl??? And the bottom picture is a tired missionary preacher?
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As I don't believe that the sparrow hawk hovers, (look at the spread of the tail feathers), I would plump for the kestrel at number one but I haven't looked up the translation. If the translation is 'sparrow hawk' I feel assured that the author of the article couldn't be wrong (could he?) and so will defer.
As for the little owl, I'm certainly inlined to agree, look at the plump little body. Also look at how cleverly the artist captures the feathered edges of of the um... feathers, which enable it's silent flight. Very clever with such a 'blunt' medium as that used for the illustration.
They're really different. I think I have already mentioned that while in the UK people generally find a private teacher for their instrument, or do it through a school scheme, here there are municipal music school, conservatoires and so on. The situation is a little more complex than I had first understood, because the schools vary in the rigidity of their organisation: the most, the conservatoires, next the municipals, then the associations. Our music school is an association, but it tends to apply the standards of the municipal schools with its programme of cycles, etc. Britain - grade 1 to 8, grade 8 being roughly equivalent to A-level, pre university/conservatoire. France - 3 cycles, each taking about 4 years, with 3ème cycle being roughly equivalent to grade 8. Theory of music - UK to take grade 8 you need theory grade 5. In France you study theory alongside your instrumental studies, very slowly. Catrin's flute music is MUCH more difficult than the stuff she does in theor
Our new apartment will be equipped with toilet and bathroom etc. but not with anything at all in the kitchen. Not even a sink. So we need to purchase a kitchen and engage a kitchen fitter. A friend who knows how to fit kitchens suggested buying an Ikea kitchen. "They're guaranteed twenty years and they honour their guarantee", he said. "I've proved it". Well I don't know any other kitchen laces in France, and I can't imagine there's much that's cheaper than Ikea, so I was happy to accept his advice. So it was that on Monday I booked an appointment with the Ikea Kitchen Planning Service in the centre of Bordeaux. The woman was friendly. "You've already started the process", she said, (have we?) "so that will save us lots of time". "What are you aiming for?" Something not too country, something discreet, something that can adapt to whatever colours we put in the rest of the room. She understood our dislike of
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As for the little owl, I'm certainly inlined to agree, look at the plump little body. Also look at how cleverly the artist captures the feathered edges of of the um... feathers, which enable it's silent flight. Very clever with such a 'blunt' medium as that used for the illustration.
My instinct is for crécerelle = kestrel.
crécerelle (petit rapace diurne) nf kestrel