alittlebitfrench Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Dead excited.Has not snowed here properly for yonks.I bet that Andy has spent the whole day digging out his house in the Ardeche. LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 It's started here, just tiny flakes so far but it's the first we've had since early winter.Blinkin' cold too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alittlebitfrench Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 No 'quelques flocons' (I love that phrase) just yet.But it has gone very dark and grey. Fingers crossed. I want 10 cm's at least. The kids want their school to close... but the school is only a 3 mins walk. So that is really not going to happen. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Flocons is just a lovely word - quelques flocons, flocons d’avoine etc. Some pics of snow in Paris, although not a lot of snow, definitely not 10cms:https://www.thelocal.fr/20180205/city-of-white-stunning-images-of-the-snowfall-in-paris-copy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 ALBF wrote:I bet that Andy has spent the whole day digging out his house in the Ardeche. LOL. Sorry to disappoint. it did not stop until 16:00 and then there was about 5-8cm to clear - unlike around 10 days ago when we had a 35cm dump of snow in 24hrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 "The kids want their school to close... but the school is only a 3 mins walk. So that is really not going to happen. Lol."Is that logic? Doesn't it depend on whether the teachers also live 3 mins walk away? If no-one else can get in, it won't open specially for your kids. Maybe you will all be able to build bonhommes de neige after all.It's so long since I built a snowman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 ALBF wrote:- "Dead excited. Has not snowed here properly for yonks."I hope you up to your oxters in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Thank you Hamser for the word oxters it's a lovely word, and I had never heard it before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Please keep your snow as far away from here as possible; cold nasty wet stuff fit only for skiers and postcards. Hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Eurotrash - oxters is Scottish for armpits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 My Dad used to use it - but he wasn't Scottish, I've never seen it written so had to look it up to find out how to spell it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alittlebitfrench Posted February 6, 2018 Author Share Posted February 6, 2018 I read it as 'Oxted'....but that is dyslexia for you. I went to school there once. Oxted that is, not dyslexia. I think dyslexia is in America. Live update from Tours.....no snow. Well a scattering of flocons. Little boy woke up this morning and said "is that what you call f***** snow". LOLI blamed the French and said that if he lived in the UK he would have proper snow. And something proper to eat for breakfast. Croissant vs Bacon, egg, sausage, bake beans and diabetes ???? Tough one. Especially if you are hangry. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 The only time and place that almost anyone eats a full English breakfast is if they're staying in a hotel. As any fule no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alittlebitfrench Posted February 6, 2018 Author Share Posted February 6, 2018 My daughter is doing a presentation on the UK for school and I said that is what the British eat for breakfast. So what do I change it to ? What do the chavs and wags eat then ?Rice Crispies ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogs Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Nothing wrong in an English breakfast, can be done quite healthily with grilled bacon, sausage, mushrooms and tomatoes and good scrambled or poached eggs. Mmm Yummy!Chavs probably have it all fried ? and wags would have fresh fruit and yoghurt, I should think?. Good luck for her project ALBF.No snow for me today but it's now forecast for tomorrow. I'd rather have snow with blue sky than this awful grey and wet we've had for around 2 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 In Paris today, 6th February 2018 - a report on the weather from another forum:The buses have been pulled off the roads, the RER is not running into the suburbs and trains are being cancelled. Some companies are asking employees not to come in to work tomorrow, as the commute would be too dangerous. I have never seen Paris quite like this before.Anybody know if it really is that bad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 We have a full English breakfast for lunch or even dinner sometimes.HATE grilled bacon, or sausage etc I NEVER grill meats or fish It's for toast,crumpet or teacakes and maybe just to finish browning something like a gratin.British press always reckons that an inch of snow brings everything to a halt, and on the continent THAT never happens, well the Ile de France etc has had about an inch of snow and 700kms of traffic jams!!!!!Love the snow, where it should be up int mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Oh, ALBF...so as far as you are concerned, Britain is made up of people who eat a full English breakfast, chavs and wags. You really are stuck in the 1990's aren't you?You need to update your vocabulary as well as your knowledge, although as you know everything, that'll be a tough one. We have hipsters and millennials now. They tend to have avocado on toast, or stuff that makes a nice photo on Instagram. Breakfast bowls are all the go. Lots of chia seeds,organic muesli with healthy grains, artisan breads with spreads made from organic ingredients. Green smoothies. Vegan stuff....I can't think of anyone over 11 who would entertain the idea of coco pops or Rice Krispies, nor anyone who would eat anything fried. Although come to think of it, there's a cafe in Shoreditch that sells only breakfast cereal. It got set on fire by those people who were camping outside St Paul's in protest against capitalism. They shot themselves in the foot a bit, because it's a small business run by two brothers who were doing it in a sort of retro/ironic way, and I don't think they have quite the same capitalist creds as Lehman Brothers. So you can eat Coco Pops as a sort of ironic thing if you are a hipster. I wonder whatever happened to wags and chavs? I think they're extinct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alittlebitfrench Posted February 7, 2018 Author Share Posted February 7, 2018 [quote user="Gardengirl "]In Paris today, 6th February 2018 - a report on the weather from another forum:The buses have been pulled off the roads, the RER is not running into the suburbs and trains are being cancelled. Some companies are asking employees not to come in to work tomorrow, as the commute would be too dangerous. I have never seen Paris quite like this before.Anybody know if it really is that bad?[/quote]Yes it was that bad. What happened is that people were advised Monday not drive to work Tuesday and rely on public transport. That is what a lot of people did but they decided Tuesday to cancel a lot of the public transport services in the afternoon. So people got stuck. Does not sound like France at all !OH was in Paris yesterday and was intending to drive back but I said catch the train. She was stuck at Montparnasse for 4-5 hrs. She was eventually told to just get on any train. Her original train that was due to leave at 15:20 had still not left at 18:00. I think it was then cancelled. The TGV's could only run at around half their normal speed so their were all out of sync.Paris had record traffic jams yesterday. The N118 which is a popular route out of Paris was closed and I guess a lot of people got stuck and spent the night in their cars.So yes, it was a big mess.Here, we have 6-8 cms of snow. Looks all very pretty. Just wondering now if the school is open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Thanks, ALBF. I hope that your OH managed to stay warm; I assume that she finally arrived home, as you didn’t say otherwise.I feel very sorry for those stuck yesterday, around 1,000 spent the night at Montparnasse, for those in the flooded areas who now have snow as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 About half a dozen floccons in London. BTW real workers need a real breakfast as can be testified by the no of full cafes in the city.The snowflakes and chavs can keep their yak milk mocolattes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Reading ALBF's tales of woe regarding his OH makes me think that living out in the sticks really can have its advantages.WE don't have to travel to any big cities - although ironically we can easily drive to the next town. There never was any public transport so we learn to not rely on it.We are prepared that the weather might be bad sometimes and plan accordingly - freezers full; good stock of tinned foods; pasta and rice stocks high and big bags of long lasting vegetables held in cool storage - potatoes, onions, carrots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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