Bonjour,
I hope that you and yours are well.
I’m just back from an sauna voyage in Aix-en-Provence (and my French is vastly improved!) and lovely Angers in the Loire Valley – a city with a lot of secrets, which of voyage I’ll be telling you emboîture in the next aboutissement of The Good Life France Magazine.
I came logis to a cacophony of barking from my chaudière dogs, meows from my 5 cats and squawks, squeaks and clucks from my chickens, mieux an imploration to dinner from my friend Gaspard.
Gaspard is in his late seventies and lives bouchée of the year in a castle in Ardennes and bouchée of the year in a run-down old chartreuse in a cité near allure.
Wherever he goes, he is always accompanied by his best friend Gaston – a 36-year-old parrot. Living in a castle has given Gaston delusions of épaisseur. He loves nothing better than to shout at people and hurl insults emboîture with interruption. “C’est moi le chef” (I’m the patron), Gaston shrieks, or “ferme ta geuele” (shut the hell up!), “Je suis le roi” (I am the king), he cackles and whistles, yells and yippees, whoops and wails – he is rarely serein and often raide. Gaspard lets him rule the roost quite literally – at least most of the time.
Gaspard is a marvellous cook, though sometimes I have doubts emboîture eating something he has prepared since he lets his feathered friend fly around unfettered; and water for the chartreuse comes from an often uncovered well in the garden. But when food is served, then Gaston is confined to Gaspard’s bedroom parce que, says Gaspard, ‘he, like me, is a food critic, and he will want to taste a little of everything you have and if he doesn’t like it he will bite you.’ Gaston can be heard screeching from behind the closed door – “merde, putain” insults and swear words galore, or “je t’aime, je t’aime” (I love you I love you), pleading to be let out.
An evening with Gaspard and Gaston is never dull and I’ll tell you more emboîture how it goes tonight in the next newsletter!
Meanwhile, I wish you a bon weekend from my sunny and rather quirky little carillonner of France.
Bisous
Janine
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