les Davey de France

OK. This heating system. It sure works. Oh boy, does it work ! The temperature in the lounge was at 21° and rising. There's no thermostat or timer. There is just the knob on the boiler itself to switch on and off and to make it run hotter or less hot. And the boiler is in the loft. I had a brianwave. There's a whopping great switch on the electricity distribution board that cuts the current. Can we use that to switch it on and off ? I emailed the boilerman. He phoned back. "Well yes, you can, but the best way to use the heating is to set it low and leave it on all the time." "What ? From now till March ?" "Well, yes." So two things happened. One, I turned the knob on the boiler all the way down - it couldn't go any lower without being switched off. Two, the weather turned mild. We gave up and turned it off at the distribution board until the cold snaps come ! Oh - and I did a quick experiment last night - I turned it on just a...

Grace Pooley ! For the weekend !

Marc 1:9 - 3:12 Bloc A (1:9 - 20) Le baptême et la tentation de Jésus ( 9 - 13) Jésus annonce la bonne nouvelle (14 - 15) Jésus appelle les premiers disciples ( 16 - 20) Bloc B ( 1:21 - 2:28) a  Jésus chasse un démon (1:21 - 28) b  Jésus guérit la belle-mère de Simon et d'autres personnes (1:29 - 34) c  Jésus dit que sa priorité est d'enseigner (1:35 - 39) d  Jésus guérit un homme lépreux (1:40 - 45) d' Jésus guérit un homme paralysé (2:1 - 12) c' Jésus appelle Lévi et mange avec des gens de mauvaise vie (2:13 - 17) b' Jésus prédit la rupture radicale avec le Judaïsme (2:18 - 22) a' Jésus est maître du sabbat (2:23 - 28) Bloc C (3:1 - 12) Jésus provoque de l'opposition en guérissant le jour du sabbat (3:1 - 6) Jésus bénéficie d'une popularité grandissante (3:7 - 12)

At FAC we're learning the structure of Mark's gospel, from Andrew Page's book "Marc : l'expérience". Here's the intro: (Marc 1 : 1 - 8) a  Le témoignage de Marc concernant Jésus (1) b  Le témoignage des prophètes de l'Ancien Testament (2 - 3) c  Le baptême de Jean suscite beaucoup d'intérêt (4 - 5) b' Jean ressemble à un prophète de l'Ancien Testament (6) a' Le témoignage de Jean concernant Jésus (7 - 8)

Marianne Faithfull à Pessac Mercredi 10 novembre à 20h30 Marianne Faithfull sera sur scène au Galet (35, avenue du Pont de l’Orient) pour une lecture musicale accompagnée par Vincent Segal au violoncelle. Elle mettra en voix "Sonnets de Shakespeare", durant une heure. Réservez vite au 05 56 45 69 14 Télécharger la saison culturelle de Pessac 2010-2011 www.pessac-en-scenes.com

So we went together to see "Il reste du jambon". Kind of "My big fat Greek wedding" but Franco-Arab. It was ok. Feel-good in the end kind of film. Some language (you get worse on Facebook !) No steamy bits. Nice to be out together.

Bin Laden thinks France is a good target . Nevertheless France remains unattacked. Why ? Perhaps because Bin Laden can't do anything - he's holed up and hiding. Perhaps because France's intelligence agencies are more efficient than those of Britain, Germany or Spain. What do you think ?