tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post5611075565389094082..comments2024-03-28T15:15:32.175+01:00Comments on Living the life in Saint-Aignan: Heavy trafficKen Broadhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-565543053072533842008-08-03T20:30:00.000+02:002008-08-03T20:30:00.000+02:00C-H - your second guess is correct.Ken - 'struth' ...C-H - your second guess is correct.<BR/>Ken - 'struth' = contraction of 'God's truth', a very common Australian exclamation.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06472449597146519943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-38149729480974663172008-08-03T18:49:00.000+02:002008-08-03T18:49:00.000+02:00Yes, a good game. I'll keep taking pictures of the...Yes, a good game. I'll keep taking pictures of the plants and flowers I see out on my walks. Hope you are doing well.Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-48812756682416310842008-08-03T18:24:00.000+02:002008-08-03T18:24:00.000+02:00Nice old game, good to keep Alzheimer away.I am al...Nice old game, good to keep Alzheimer away.<BR/>I am almost sure now that the lovely blue flower is a Viper's Bugloss (Blueweed) Echium vulgare, [Vipérine in French].Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-24599223029053382722008-08-03T17:20:00.000+02:002008-08-03T17:20:00.000+02:00Merci, CHM, I'll have to take your word for it! My...Merci, CHM, I'll have to take your word for it! My blog is becoming a version of an old game show: Name That Plant!Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-39856205525243712152008-08-03T13:12:00.001+02:002008-08-03T13:12:00.001+02:00And what does "struth" mean?And what does "struth" mean?Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-9053140257602108802008-08-03T13:12:00.000+02:002008-08-03T13:12:00.000+02:00Simon, I sympathize. But don't take it personally....Simon, I sympathize. But don't take it personally. You just have to tell people arriving from overseas that it is a 10-hour, €150 drive up to Roissy and back (counting tolls, parking, and fuel). And that's on the best day. It can take many more hours. <BR/><BR/>And then the people you have been kind enough to go fetch just sleep in the car as you drive back and keep asking you: "Are we there yet?" No, trains were invented to prevent such suffering on the part of drivers.Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-17237899873314847822008-08-03T11:51:00.000+02:002008-08-03T11:51:00.000+02:00Struth......... (talking about traffic, that is).S...Struth......... (talking about traffic, that is).<BR/><BR/>Susan's family have a penchance for arriving on poor traffic days; her parents arrived on the last day of the May holidays in Paris and I had to drive up to meet them, and her sister arrives on the last day of the August holidays.<BR/><BR/>I refused, this time, to drive to Paris, but insisted they catch the train to Poitiers.<BR/><BR/>I didnt know about this weekend. If I had, I am sure someone would have fashioned an arrival for this date.<BR/><BR/>They do it to torment me, you know..........Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06203768991989701121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-85645489271071611742008-08-03T10:57:00.000+02:002008-08-03T10:57:00.000+02:00It seems to me the blue flower could be a "phacéli...It seems to me the blue flower could be a "phacélie à feuilles de tanaisie (Phacelia tanacetifolia)" in the same family as borage [bourrache]. <BR/>The white flower is a wild clematis [clématite sauvage ou clématite des haies]. <BR/>www.englishplants.co.uk/wildclem.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com