Well done!

French

Pictures from AFP PHOTO/BERTRAND GUAY; found here
Just a quick post to congratulate Yolande Moreau and Déborah François, both Beglian actresses who won a Cesar yesterday.
Well done !
Video (English version):
7 Cesars for Seraphine

Séraphine - trailer (French with English subtitles):

I look forward to seeing it!

U2 gave us a magnificent impromptu gig in Central London

French

Here is a post which will make some of you very jealous…
5 pm this afternoon, I receive a link announcing U2 will give a free gig in an hour in Central London. Info? Hoax? We’ll see… I take my camera and dash over to Oxford Circus where I have an appointment with my boyfriend.
We run to [...]

A famous pedestrian crossing

French

Just received this link… I am sure some of you will recognize that you yourselves have done the same once in your life…
Did they imagine all the people taking pictures there…?
Enjoy ! (with the sound )

By the way, did you know animal names are used to distinguish several types of pedestrian crossings [...]

Little people can cause big misunderstandings

French

Hello everyone,
Yesterday night, I was surfing the internet and checked the websites of the companies I used to work for. I was particularly impressed by Duval Guillaume’s blog on which I found this crazy ad…
Here is the background: Every year a Belgian charity called Islands of Peace sells ‘little men’ keyrings in the shape of [...]

In UK today it’s…Pancake Day

French

Picture found here;
AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTO

Hello,
While in Belgium, they celebrate Mardi Gras, while in Venice takes place a famous Carnival, today within UK, it’s Pancake Day, in other words the tradition to make and eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday (’shrove’ stems from old English word ’shrive’, meaning ‘confess all sins’) is the day [...]

Un peu de lecture…

French

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Expressions of the week

In French, many expressions contains the word “chat” (=cat) and I was wondering how they were translated in English.

Image found here.
Here is what I found:
Donner sa langue au chat => to give in but you can also say “Put us (me) out of our (my) misery, kill us (me) know”;
Il n’y a pas un [...]

How to define Web 3.0?

Yesterday, I had a job interview to work within a social networking website…We spoke about my passion for social media, Web 2.0, my blog…
They also asked this very interesting question: what’s the Web 3.0?
Although I had already seen this expression in different articles, I wasn’t really able to give a precise definition…

When I came back [...]

Kit Kat: ‘Working Like a Machine’ campaign

People need a break from the monotony of day to day life. And Kit Kat, UK’s number one biscuit brand, seems to have understood it…If you’re passing by London Victoria National Rail station, look out!

All the story here