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APRIL FOOL'S!

April 1 is the day jokes. So where does this tradition of hanging paper fish on the back in France? It is said that it originated in 1564 when King Charles IX decided that the year begin on 1 January, marks the lengthening days instead of late March, spring arrives. The king had found while traveling in different parts of his kingdom, according to the dioceses, the year does not begin on the same day. With this edict of 1564 steadies the beginning of the year throughout its domain.

According to legend, some people decided to continue to celebrate around the 1st of April. But as this was not the true beginning of the year, gifts were false gifts. The use of fish is more confused. As at the beginning of April, France, fishing is prohibited because it is the breeding season, it is said that some were throwing herring to the river to make jokes to fishermen and that they then cried "April Fool!"

Today is hung, as discreetly as possible, a paper fish on the backs of people who walk in street are also made jokes to family, friends, and then writes "April Fool!" when the joke is discovered or to warn that the story we told is false. This custom of making jokes on April 1, has spread in other countries: the U.S. and Britain have their April Fool's Day, the Germans, their Aprilscherz. This custom also exists in the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Japan.

The media also want to make jokes that day. On 1 April 2009, the presenters of the show "The Magazine of Health" on France 5 Announce development of a fuel made from human fat after liposuction. YouTube displays its interface in reverse: clips, titles, comments, orders, etc.. To resolve this problem, the site advises users to flip the screen, tilt the head, or .... emigrate to Australia.


NORMANDY


that Tuesday, the morning tide, the sea is dark, it's not nice. Yet 200,000 men landed on the beaches of Normandy ... This is the June 6, 1944 , the longest day ", Allied soldiers came to liberate Europe.

Thousand years earlier, the Normandy coast know another landing, the Viking, aboard their Viking ships. These men will become the North Normans from 933, Normandy is an important duchy of France. In 1066, the most famous of them, William the Conqueror , accompanied by 50,000 soldiers and horsemen conquered England after winning the Battle of Hastings. This struggle is told in the famous Bayeux Tapestry. Bayeux is also the first town liberated in France June 7, 1944. England remains associated with France until 1204, when Philip Augustus recovers Norman lands.

All this explains why the English language contains many words borrowed from Latin or Scandinavian. Nowadays, the monarchs of Great Britain still exercise sovereignty over the Channel Islands, located 200 meters off the French coast, under the title "Duke of Normandy."

The two flags of Normandy. The first two leopards repesentative (nicknamed the Norman p'tits cats) and is identical to the old coat of arms of Normandy. The second is the flag of the Cross of St. Olaf, Norman movement's flag, created in 1939 and is derived from the banner at the papal cross given to William the Conqueror by the Pope. We see it in different media, although the majority of the Normans uses p'tits cats.

Here are some photos from Normandy

Throughout Normandy, the climate is temperate and humid, however there is a wide variety of landscapes (meadows, groves, forests and coastal areas). The coasts have different aspects: high white cliffs, headlands crystalline beaches of pebbles and sand. You can visit the Romanesque churches and abbeys and Gothic castles and manors, towns and vile the ages. To know a little better Normandy, click the following link: http://www.routard.com/guide/normandie/301/itineraires_conseilles.htm

Norman gastronomy is based on four products: apples (cider, calvados), milk (dairy products, cheeses like Camembert, Livarot, the bridge-l'évêque among others), meat and seafood

Click on the links below if you want to know more about pie:
http://www.maisonducamembert.com / index.html

http://www.camembert-country.com/cwp/cwp_rect.htm

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fight against small (and not so small) animals in an environmentally

Photo and text: © Sandrine New

How to protect small animals without poisoning the environment, or some ideas and recipes for Grandma's garden and house without pesticides and insecticides :


- Birds eat your fruits?

* hang pieces of aluminum foil in the trees using fishing line. You can even cover the aluminum shell to add the sound of their Rattled your scarecrow.
* If the fruits are almost ripe, put a bag over palstique: they continue to mature ... safe.


- flies, bees, wasps are around your glass of juice? *

with creativity you a stopper foil and slip a straw.
* build an insect trap with a plastic bottle: Put a solution made it a 1 / 2 cup water and a 1 / 2 cup sugar, then add 1 cup cider vinegar a banana skin. After shaking, fill halfway with water, make a hole 2 cm up, and hang from a tree.


- Moles destroying your garden?

* for hunting without harming them, mix 1 / 2 cup of castor oil to 7.7 liters of water and sprinkle generously with the molehills.
* simpler if you have a cat, pour the soiled litter into mole hills! Moles take their legs around their necks!


- Prevent rodents or moles spoiling your plants?

* place wire mesh, wire mesh for such housing with the location of your lawn. Cover with a thick layer of soil, plant.


- squirrels or other critters, love your flowers?
coat * Rod Vaseline to prevent them from climbing.


-The cat insists to his needs in your flowerbeds?

* mix the rest of coffee in a filter with an orange peel and place this mixture at the base of your plants. The cat will do his business elsewhere and the mixture is also a good fertilizer.


- A plague of aphids?

* bury a banana skin dry or cut into small pieces and 2.5 cm deep at the base of the plant attacked: aphids will soon pack their bags!


- Snails and slugs love too your garden or your flowers?

* Protect your planting with a gate ash: it sticks to their bodies and Dryer poor predators.
* variant: sprinkle of crushed chalk at the base of plants.
* place a container of beer at the base of plants attacked: snails and slugs are attracted by its smell, but soon find themselves drunk and drown ... *
to prevent slugs and snails getting into your flower pots, place them on sandpaper, even used, some rough exposed.


- Do not want to get bitten by ticks or mosquitoes?

* Coat your legs and pant legs to chest rubs. These little critters hate the smell pungent.
* in the same vein, you can also try the onions, skins of citrus, vanilla essence.


- You've been bitten by a mosquito or a bee?

* a few aspirin will relieve skin moistened. You can also use an onion or salt.


-mice moved into the garage?

* place there a few mothballs: the mouse will move. *
once marked the entrance holes of mice, cover them with sponges metal, hard to nibble.


- The little creatures are attacking food for your pets?

* place the bowl in a container as a low aluminum tray, which you fill with water.
* Please circle the bowl of cat or dog baking soda: it will keep insects at bay and not likely to poison your pet.


- Too many flies in the house?
* build your own fly paper kills by covering a cardboard toilet paper roll of tape, sticky side exposed. Hang it in a strategic location.

- A problem with ants?

* protect the closet or the object coveted by ants by a rampart of adhesive tape, sticky side exposed. *
less aggressive (why kill the ants when you just have to hunt?): Use a barrier made of crushed chalk or flour.
* you can also sprinkle the entries of the closet, and the passage of ants lemon juice, and place slices of lemon in the closet. *
can still spray the ants (or nests) of a mixture of half water and half vinegar.
* if the ants climb onto your table, place each foot into a small container filled with water.


- Moths invade your closet?

* Clean your drawers and closets with a solution of ammonia (1 half cup per 1 liter of water). Allow to air dry.


-The house is overrun with cockroaches and fleas?

* mix the juice of 4 lemons to two liters of water, wash your floor, and watch the critters escape: they hate the smell.
* to get rid of fleas, you can also put a few drops of dishwashing liquid mixed with water in a dish placed on the ground near a lamp. Fleas attracted to the light jump in base and drown.


- Your pets domestic (especially dogs, cats hate this treatment ...) have problems with ticks and fleas?

* sprinkle them with a mixture of vinegar and water in equal doses.

Signs That A Period Is Coming

The "Box of Kyoto: a solar cooker available to all

© Sandrine Nouvel


John Bohmer, de Kyoto Energy, vient de remporter le 1er prix du Forum pour l'Avenir (Forum for the Future)assorti d'une somme de 75 000$ offerte par Hewlett -Packhard.

The Forum for the Future is a British NGO which is interested in sustainable development. In partnership with The Financial Times, the Forum has launched a competition in November 2008, whose theme was "the most innovative combat global warming."

Norwegian John Bohmer, based in Kenya, won the first prize for an invention of great simplicity: "Box of Kyoto", a solar oven that could well be revolutionary.

At the base of his invention, a simple idea: to make solar ovens more accessible by presenting a model very easy to do yourself, and whose cost would be only 6 dollars or 5 euros .

Kyoto's Box consists of two simple cardboard boxes, one slightly smaller than the other. The interior of the smallest is painted black to better retain heat. The interior and most of rabas are covered with aluminum foil. The two boxes are placed one inside the other, and covered with a sheet of acrylic glass.
It only remains to put the water to be heated in a container in the center of the smallest box, under the glass plate, and expose all the sun.

Temperatures in the kiln can reach at least 80 ° C, allow to cook, and even boil water, according to its inventor. John Bohmer

hopes his solar oven, available to residents Third World countries, will fight against deforestation, replacing the wood fire cooking - is still practiced by 2 billion persons, and to fight together against global warming by reducing emissions substantially dioxide carbon. Box Kyoto could thus reduce the CO2 emission of two tonnes per family per year.
The solar oven could also improve the living conditions and health conditions of millions people, and reduce fire hazards associated with cooking with wood. If the box

Kyoto can be done easily at home, hoping Bohmer get to produce it in large numbers. His oven is already produced by a factory in Nairobi with a capacity of 2.5 million cans a month. It plans to produce a stronger version, replacing the box from recycled plastic. If the box

Kyoto is especially suited to hot climates, why not try it also in developed countries and temperate in summer? After all, in these countries, too, boiling water has a financial cost, and is not neutral for the planet. In addition, Kyoto's Box is easy to perform and appears as a perfect science experiment to do with his students or children, even young. It's never too early to raise awareness of the ecology and become world citizens informed and responsible!

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Candlemas

Candlemas? It is the day that the pancakes are prepared with family or friends. You have to flip the pancake with the right hand and if it returns with address (do not let it fall down or catch it all wrinkled), we will be lucky to Candlemas next.

Candlemas is celebrated on February 2, 40 days after Christmas. Its name comes from "candle". One of the origins of this celebration goes back to Roman Parentalia: annual festival in honor of the dead we watched with candles and torches. This festival is also connected to the god Pan; all night, his followers roamed the streets of Rome in carrying torches. They also say that it is a symbolic Celtic; pancake symbolizes the sun gear and the gift to the gods, without which the wheat would be bad this year.

In 472, Pope Gelasius first Christianize the festival that is celebrating the presentation of Jesus in the temple. We then organized a procession with candles. According to popular tradition, it should bring home the lit candle to not die in the year. It also said the flame protected from lightning if it is lit during a thunderstorm. It seems that Pope Gelasius pilgrims rewarded by giving them pancakes.

Then there was another custom, that of the room. Farmers were first pancake blow with his right hand while holding a gold coin in his left hand. Then we rolled up the part in the pancake, which were deposited on top of the cabinet. The following year the piece was recovered and it gave the poor come first.

Today, candlelit processions and rituals have all but disappeared o na preserved the tradition of pancakes.

Comptine Proverbs

It Candlemas tomorrow,
Tomorrow we eat pancakes, pancakes
round pancakes blondes
pancakes that fly
As pigeon flies.
Attractive golden pancakes
Who else we could skip
on the nose.

Proverbs

for Candlemas
When the sun is shining
It's colder after
before.

If Candlemas is beautiful and shines
Six weeks goes down the bear.

BRITTANY

Click http://www.louisbourdon.com/bretagne.php and you can see beautiful pictures of Britain.
And if you click http://www.louisbourdon.com/bretagne9.php , you'll see the traditional caps in this region.
If you wish to travel to Britain, click on: http://www.routard.com/guide/bretagne/312/itineraires_conseilles.htm

Below, Alan Stivell, songwriter, musician and performer French from Brittany sings "Sort Martolod," a song in Breton. Alan Stivell has encouraged the revival of the Celtic harp and song modern Breton. His music has become universal and has influenced many artists.