<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981</id><updated>2012-02-18T19:41:46.997+01:00</updated><category term='Holidays'/><category term='Nuggets'/><category term='Africa'/><category term='Unschool'/><category term='Baby'/><category term='SalonAuto'/><category term='Techno'/><category term='Dystopia'/><category term='Politico'/><title type='text'>Ben's Bilingual Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>Blog to tell the world about what we're up to, and we'll see what else. Ce blog se veut bilingue, mais pas forcement symétrique dans les deux langues.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1102</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3919871503903333102</id><published>2012-02-17T15:06:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T15:06:01.023+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dystopia'/><title type='text'>Not looking good ... Ca se présente mal</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fjp5Lwk50Qc/TzKCf84yaaI/AAAAAAAAEpM/tQRglUCnF-Y/s1600/theroad.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fjp5Lwk50Qc/TzKCf84yaaI/AAAAAAAAEpM/tQRglUCnF-Y/s320/theroad.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Avez-vous vu le film "&lt;a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="La Route" href="http://actu-film.com/la-route-bande-annonce-du-film/"&gt;La Route&lt;/a&gt;"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moi pas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ca ressemble beaucoup trop à un de mes cauchemars (éveillés). La terreur épouvantable d'une désintégration de la société.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certains chrétiens semblent souscrire à l'idée que le progrès est notre destin voulu par Dieu; ils prennent l'histoire des derniers 50 ans en occident et ils en déduisent que tout continuera pour toujours ainsi. Les choses ne feront que de s'améliorer - avec plus de gadgets, plus d'amusement, et plus d'argent. Leur théologie est souvent adaptée en conséquence (pré ou post-tribulation-machin, je me rappelle plus). Enfin, le pire est définitivement derrière.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Malheureusement ma disposition naturelle à l'optimisme démesuré ne m'inspire pas un espoir débordant par rapport à la bonté naturelle de l'humanité, surtout quand elle est dépouillée de l'essentiel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous aimons bien sermonné les pays du tiers monde qui détruisent les forêts tropicales, mais je vous garantie que si demain on coupait l'éléctricité et le chauffage ici en Suisse, il n'y aurait plus de sapins à Noël. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et c'est même pas cohérent avec d'autres choses qu'on nous dit. Si on parle tout le temps de 'développement durable' - cela sous-entend que ce que nous faisons maintenant n'est pas durable - ça ne peut pas durer. Et je ne crois pas que ça va durer. Mais qu'est-ce que j'aimerais avoir tort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voilà une citation intéressante d'un dirigeant du tiers monde "L'Europe a perdu beaucoup d'argent, vous êtes donc pauvre par rapport au passé. Vous refusez d'admettre que vous êtes pauvres. Vous ne pouvez pas vous en sortir en imprimant de l'argent. Il faudra apprendre à vivre selon vos moyens" ("&lt;a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="Europe is poor so should live within its means" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16918000"&gt;Europe is poor so should live within its means&lt;/a&gt;"). Un autre article (aussi en anglais, désolé &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024833/Nine-meals-anarchy--Britain-facing-real-food-crisis.html"&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/a&gt;) décrit le scénario prévu par un expert en cas d'une coupure de carburant de moins de trois jours - le titre est "Neuf repas avant l'anarchie".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans un sens, on devrait accueillir tout ceci avec bras ouvert: ça va nous obliger de vivre plus sobrement (dans nos moyens). Mais je crains que la population en général ne vas pas voir ça d'un si bon oeil...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alors que faire? Investir dans de l'or? C'est ce que font beaucoup de gens - le prix de l'or a pris l'ascenseur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personnellement, j'ai l'impression qu'on aurait meilleurs temps de parier sur des choses un poil plus prosaiques, et essentielles. J'y ai réfléchi un peu, et voilà quelques idées:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Du sel &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Colle, ficelle&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Des outils (y compris pelles et haches) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Des livres, beaucoup de livres. Surtout sur comment jardiner pour manger.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Malgré tout ça, je ne suis pas un grand survivaliste - j'ai jamais vraiment aimé les scouts - mais peut-être que je devrais, vu ma nature insouciante.... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Have you seen the film "&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/"&gt;The Road&lt;/a&gt;"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It looks much too much like what my nightmares (or rather daymares) are made of. The speechless terror of a breakdown of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some Christians seem to subscribe to an idea of a God-created progress; extrapolating the last 50 years of western history into the foreseeable future. Things are just going to keep on getting better - more whizz, bang, and buck. Their theology typically follows suit (pre- or post- tribulation wotsits, can't remember and can't be bothered to look it up).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm afraid my natural inclination to unbounded optimism doesn't fill me with great hope in the goodness of mankind, especially if the essentials are stripped away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We like to admonish third-world countries about destroying rainforests, but I can guarantee that if tomorrow there was no electricity or heating fuel here in Switzerland, there'd be no trees left by Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it's not even coherent with other things we're told. I mean, all the talk about 'sustainable development' presupposes that whatever we're doing now is 'unsustainable' - i.e., it can't go on forever. And I don't think it's going to. Though I'd love to be proven wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's an interesting quote from the BBC: "&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16918000"&gt;Europe is poor so should live within its means&lt;/a&gt;". And an article from the &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024833/Nine-meals-anarchy--Britain-facing-real-food-crisis.html"&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/a&gt; about food scarcity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a way we could/should welcome this, because it will force us to live more soberly. But I fear that the polis won't make the transition with such equanimity...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what do you do? Invest in gold? That's what lots of people are doing - the price is going through the roof.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suspect that your best bet is probably things that are slightly more mundane, and essential. I've thought about it a bit, and here are a few ideas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Salt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Glue &amp;amp; string&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hand tools (including spades and axes)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Books, lots of books. Especially ones about growing food.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;However, I'm afraid I'm not much of a survivalist - never did like scouts - though maybe I ought to be, with my sunny outlook. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3919871503903333102?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3919871503903333102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3919871503903333102' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3919871503903333102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3919871503903333102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/not-looking-good-ca-se-presente-mal.html' title='Not looking good ... Ca se présente mal'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fjp5Lwk50Qc/TzKCf84yaaI/AAAAAAAAEpM/tQRglUCnF-Y/s72-c/theroad.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-771472176108097866</id><published>2012-02-16T23:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-16T23:14:00.273+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bad hand ... Cicatrice</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZsRcRw11aQo/Ty2tv1tXiOI/AAAAAAAAEnk/9BdkDuufYfw/s1600/DSC06248.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZsRcRw11aQo/Ty2tv1tXiOI/AAAAAAAAEnk/9BdkDuufYfw/s400/DSC06248.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Je me suis fait enlever les points vendredi passé - ça ne s'est pas mal passé pour finir. En fait, cette blessure m'a vraiment pas trop fait souffrir. Un bout ne s'est pas fermé très bien, donc j'imagine qu'il faudra du temps pour que ça se cicatrise comme il faut.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Had the stitches out last Friday - wasn't half as bad as I expected. In fact, this wound hasn't bothered me much at all. At one end it didn't close as much as it ought to have done, so I think the cut will take a fair while to grow out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-771472176108097866?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/771472176108097866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=771472176108097866' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/771472176108097866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/771472176108097866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/bad-hand-cicatrice.html' title='Bad hand ... Cicatrice'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZsRcRw11aQo/Ty2tv1tXiOI/AAAAAAAAEnk/9BdkDuufYfw/s72-c/DSC06248.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-2840657401175122348</id><published>2012-02-15T17:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-15T17:10:00.382+01:00</updated><title type='text'>In passing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; A couple of interesting things I've read recently:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/dealing-with-the-wayward"&gt;Church discipline, another take&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2012/02/wycliffe-bible-translators-accused-of.html"&gt;SCANDAL: Wycliffe Bible translators adulterating the truth!!!! (or not)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/farewell-stack-exchange.html"&gt;Choosing fatherhood over career&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-2840657401175122348?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/2840657401175122348/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=2840657401175122348' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2840657401175122348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2840657401175122348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/in-passing.html' title='In passing'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8636401194031147131</id><published>2012-02-14T20:48:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-14T20:48:00.057+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Crumbs ... Miettes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2T5MHfJ8ya4/Tyroodf7fEI/AAAAAAAAEl4/r3xq2a7_SwQ/s1600/DSC06246.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2T5MHfJ8ya4/Tyroodf7fEI/AAAAAAAAEl4/r3xq2a7_SwQ/s400/DSC06246.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; "Kalia si tu continues à jeter les miettes par terre comme ça, tu devras passer l'aspirateur"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ah ouais? Chouette!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Au niveau éducatif, je ne sais dire si le bilan est positif ou négatif :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; "Kalia, if you keep brushing your crumbs onto the floor like that, it's you who'll have to vacuum them up."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Really? Cool!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not sure whether that counts as a positive outcome or not :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8636401194031147131?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8636401194031147131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8636401194031147131' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8636401194031147131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8636401194031147131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/crumbs-miettes.html' title='Crumbs ... Miettes'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2T5MHfJ8ya4/Tyroodf7fEI/AAAAAAAAEl4/r3xq2a7_SwQ/s72-c/DSC06246.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-4636972714280485399</id><published>2012-02-13T10:46:00.012+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-13T10:46:00.142+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lost balloon ... Ballon perdu</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2G4SAbHyQPE/TyroCu-JrhI/AAAAAAAAEko/o-gi-50Kd28/s1600/DSC06144.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2G4SAbHyQPE/TyroCu-JrhI/AAAAAAAAEko/o-gi-50Kd28/s400/DSC06144.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Celle-ci est d'avant Noël, mais il y a une histoire assez longue, qu'il fallait du temps pour coucher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'était le deuxième dimanche où je chantais dans le chorale de Noël. Les filles se sont arrêtés au marché de Noël à Montreux avant de venir m'écouter, et Rebecca a reçu un ballon Barbapapa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après le 'concert', on est rentré à la maison en bus - sauf qu'on a dû changer de bus au dépôt, puisque "l'ancien" avait fini sa tournée.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A peine montés sur le deuxième, Kalia s'est rendu compte qu'on avait oublié le ballon. Pendant qu'on gérait la crise qui s'en est suivie (alors que c'était le ballon à sa soeur), on est arrivé à notre arrêt. Arrivés à la maison, je me suis tout de suite rendu compte que j'avais laissé notre sac à dos sur le deuxième bus!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alors je suis ressorti dans la neige. Etant donné que la ligne de bus n'est pas circulaire, mais aller-retour, je me suis dit que j'avais une chance de choper le même bus au retour. Ca n'a pas manqué, après 2 minutes, un bus est arrivé, et le sac-à-dos était dedans. Je suis monté dedans et j'ai questionné le chauffeur sur la possibilité de récupérer un ballon rose, il m'a conseillé de demander au dépôt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arrivé au dépôt, j'ai collé mon nez contre le vitre, mais vu personne. Mais voilà que dérrière moi arrive le chauffeur du deuxième bus, qui venait de finir sa journée. Il est allé voir au bureau pour moi, mais et retourné bredouille, en m'expliquant qu'il y avait une chance que le ballon tournait encore dans un bus. "Mais non", je lui ai répondu, "c'était l'autre bus qui est retourné au dépôt - on a dû monté dans le vôtre". "C'est le 10 alors", il a dit, et 5 minutes plus tard, il est réapparu avec le ballon en main.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De retour à la maison, je leur ai dit, "Vous avez prié, pas vrai?" Et oui effectivement, elles avaient prié.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce qui me pose un monstre problème théologique. Comment Dieu peut-il s'intéresser aux ballons gonflables Barbapapa, alors qu'il y a des dizaines ou centaines de miliers d'enfants qui meurent de faim dans ce monde?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; This is from before Christmas, but there's a long story to tell about this balloon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second Sunday that I sang in the carols choir, the girls stopped in Montreux at the Christmas Market before coming to hear me do my thing. Rebecca got a Barbapapa balloon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the service, we took the bus home, but had to hop onto a 'new' bus at the bus station, as the old one had finished its run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was Kalia who suddenly realised that we'd forgotten the balloon, and while managing the ensuing meltdown (even though it wasn't her balloon), we got to our stop and got off. When we got home, I promptly realised I'd forgotten our rucksack on the second bus!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So with all family members parked, I set back out (in the driving snow) to the bus stop. Given that the bus route is a there-and-back affair, I figured I had a chance of waiting for the bus to get to the end and come back. And bingo - after waiting 2 minutes, a bus turned up, and there was the rucksack on the bus! I got in, and quizzed the driver as to my chances of finding a pink balloon on another bus. He said that there was no guarantee, but I could try the bus station.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I go to the station, I looked vainly through the windows, but no-one was around. Until up behind me walks the driver of the second bus, who was just knocking off. He said he'd go and ask in the office, but nobody had reported anything. He said maybe the bus was still driving round, to which I replied, "No, we got off it onto your bus". "Oh, it's number 10" he said, and came back 5 minutes later, balloon in hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I got back home, I said "you prayed, didn't you?" And they had.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which causes me a monumental theological dilemma. How could God be bothered about helium-filled-pink-Barbapapas, and yet simultaneously tens or hundreds of thousands of children are starving?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-4636972714280485399?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/4636972714280485399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=4636972714280485399' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4636972714280485399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4636972714280485399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/lost-balloon-ballon-perdu.html' title='Lost balloon ... Ballon perdu'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2G4SAbHyQPE/TyroCu-JrhI/AAAAAAAAEko/o-gi-50Kd28/s72-c/DSC06144.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-4343930241073183921</id><published>2012-02-12T23:17:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-12T23:17:00.356+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Alphabet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y6PWctT0onI/Ty2um-zkPRI/AAAAAAAAEnw/-UU2iGEAJaQ/s1600/DSC06259.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y6PWctT0onI/Ty2um-zkPRI/AAAAAAAAEnw/-UU2iGEAJaQ/s400/DSC06259.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xfqQyWDu_9w/Ty2unGp_QfI/AAAAAAAAEn4/86027Ky8aVA/s1600/DSC06262.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xfqQyWDu_9w/Ty2unGp_QfI/AAAAAAAAEn4/86027Ky8aVA/s400/DSC06262.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; J'ai fait un petit 'puzzle' de l'alphabet, à l'intention de Rebecca, mais c'est Kalia qui s'est amusé à l'aider à le compléter. Rebecca adore faire la peinture ces temps-ci.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; I made an alphabet 'jigsaw' for Rebecca, but I think Kalia had more fun 'helping' her with it. Rebecca is really into painting at the moment too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-4343930241073183921?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/4343930241073183921/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=4343930241073183921' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4343930241073183921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4343930241073183921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/alphabet.html' title='Alphabet'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y6PWctT0onI/Ty2um-zkPRI/AAAAAAAAEnw/-UU2iGEAJaQ/s72-c/DSC06259.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7495622824506544023</id><published>2012-02-11T13:19:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-11T13:19:00.091+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Before/after ... Avant/après</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Des photos de la cuisine avant et après la peinture des murs et la pose du sol.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Photos of the kitchen before and after painting the tiles and laying down the vinyl flooring.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sluKFfCHgLc/Ty2u_gesnQI/AAAAAAAAEow/pe-zIZHki74/s1600/DSC05599.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sluKFfCHgLc/Ty2u_gesnQI/AAAAAAAAEow/pe-zIZHki74/s400/DSC05599.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zX8vUOKQoqE/Ty2vAUSXPiI/AAAAAAAAEo4/Zor5og3s43M/s1600/DSC05600.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zX8vUOKQoqE/Ty2vAUSXPiI/AAAAAAAAEo4/Zor5og3s43M/s400/DSC05600.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FZXLSHhdSv4/Ty2u-aZamhI/AAAAAAAAEoI/WBQbnSTsR6s/s1600/DSC06256.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FZXLSHhdSv4/Ty2u-aZamhI/AAAAAAAAEoI/WBQbnSTsR6s/s400/DSC06256.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fZZOEUlBvfA/Ty2u-lBMM1I/AAAAAAAAEoY/aXr-CbNmVQg/s1600/DSC06257.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fZZOEUlBvfA/Ty2u-lBMM1I/AAAAAAAAEoY/aXr-CbNmVQg/s400/DSC06257.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kNFgTomESu4/Ty2u_f3-z3I/AAAAAAAAEog/97hqBoFxOyg/s1600/DSC06258.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kNFgTomESu4/Ty2u_f3-z3I/AAAAAAAAEog/97hqBoFxOyg/s400/DSC06258.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7495622824506544023?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7495622824506544023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7495622824506544023' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7495622824506544023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7495622824506544023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/beforeafter-avantapres.html' title='Before/after ... Avant/après'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-1856531815855765010</id><published>2012-02-10T20:52:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-10T20:52:00.231+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Balloon festival ... Montgofières</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-StNUlLp2ocY/Tyrpk85QPQI/AAAAAAAAEmI/OXBNfpJeSbE/s1600/DSC06227.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-StNUlLp2ocY/Tyrpk85QPQI/AAAAAAAAEmI/OXBNfpJeSbE/s400/DSC06227.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Réponse à &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/teaser-enigme.html"&gt;l'énigme&lt;/a&gt; de l'autre jour: c'est une lachée de ballons. J'ai pris congé un mercredi après-midi pour aller au festival de Montgolfières à Château-d'Oex.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Follow up from the &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/teaser-enigme.html"&gt;teaser&lt;/a&gt;, it was a how-far-will-your-helium-filled-balloon-go competition (whatever the name for that is in English). Culmination of a special 'kids afternoon' at the hot-air-balloon festival in Château-d'Oex.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j2jEDupa92s/TyrplFUe5BI/AAAAAAAAEmQ/vgCTp0G8HLU/s1600/DSC06209.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j2jEDupa92s/TyrplFUe5BI/AAAAAAAAEmQ/vgCTp0G8HLU/s400/DSC06209.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; C'était un après-midi spécial enfants - avec des vols attachés (le bonnet rose c'est Kalia).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; There were free tethered flights for children - the pink hat is Kalia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R_Hp1rsoOgQ/TyrplD51XrI/AAAAAAAAEmk/RlQm6uECnzw/s1600/DSC06187.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R_Hp1rsoOgQ/TyrplD51XrI/AAAAAAAAEmk/RlQm6uECnzw/s400/DSC06187.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Il y avait toute sortes de Montgolfières rigolotes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; And lots of interestingly-shaped balloons (spot the piper).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JZNZxvdAb1k/TyrpmI5yCaI/AAAAAAAAEms/k8FV6_z7uKE/s1600/DSC06161.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JZNZxvdAb1k/TyrpmI5yCaI/AAAAAAAAEms/k8FV6_z7uKE/s400/DSC06161.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Il y a de la neige aussi là-haut. Voilà une fraiseuse - et dérrière le camion était chargé de ... neige!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Lots of snow 'up there' - here's a special snow blower - followed by a truck full of ... snow!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4VYgFhdkjw/TyrpmC-EftI/AAAAAAAAEm8/IrHxXRGXqcg/s1600/DSC06156.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4VYgFhdkjw/TyrpmC-EftI/AAAAAAAAEm8/IrHxXRGXqcg/s400/DSC06156.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; On est allé en train - le Golden Pass. C'est mythique, on a traversé un tunnel, ET un nuage!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; We went by train on the Golden Pass line - through a tunnel in the mountain, and through a cloud!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4XA6IrN1KPw/TyrpocGwZRI/AAAAAAAAEnE/-Xe9PiAYZZ0/s1600/DSC06153.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4XA6IrN1KPw/TyrpocGwZRI/AAAAAAAAEnE/-Xe9PiAYZZ0/s400/DSC06153.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-1856531815855765010?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/1856531815855765010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=1856531815855765010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1856531815855765010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1856531815855765010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/balloon-festival-montgofieres.html' title='Balloon festival ... Montgofières'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-StNUlLp2ocY/Tyrpk85QPQI/AAAAAAAAEmI/OXBNfpJeSbE/s72-c/DSC06227.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8440057336730331682</id><published>2012-02-08T10:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-08T10:47:00.040+01:00</updated><title type='text'>More cake ... Encore du gâteau</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cNJJ8O-_iUs/TyrobN0TGvI/AAAAAAAAElA/2eO_kJPl1c0/s1600/DSC06239.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cNJJ8O-_iUs/TyrobN0TGvI/AAAAAAAAElA/2eO_kJPl1c0/s400/DSC06239.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-daFArtTTC-o/TyrobfXYSSI/AAAAAAAAElM/L2YG0gr1-PE/s1600/DSC06241.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-daFArtTTC-o/TyrobfXYSSI/AAAAAAAAElM/L2YG0gr1-PE/s400/DSC06241.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6CQOpRVMpFo/TyrocXJnicI/AAAAAAAAElc/jYwbA5Pna1U/s1600/DSC06242.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6CQOpRVMpFo/TyrocXJnicI/AAAAAAAAElc/jYwbA5Pna1U/s400/DSC06242.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Les filles se sont à nouveau essayer à la décoration de gâteau...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; More cake decoration practice!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8440057336730331682?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8440057336730331682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8440057336730331682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8440057336730331682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8440057336730331682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-cake-encore-du-gateau.html' title='More cake ... Encore du gâteau'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cNJJ8O-_iUs/TyrobN0TGvI/AAAAAAAAElA/2eO_kJPl1c0/s72-c/DSC06239.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-455611481225221680</id><published>2012-02-07T11:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-07T11:53:35.361+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Teaser ... Enigme</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ODecafWgRRg/TyroKS9TbZI/AAAAAAAAEk0/79Sqk8NQrr8/s1600/DSC06230.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ODecafWgRRg/TyroKS9TbZI/AAAAAAAAEk0/79Sqk8NQrr8/s400/DSC06230.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Que regarde-t-elle?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; What's she looking at?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-455611481225221680?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/455611481225221680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=455611481225221680' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/455611481225221680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/455611481225221680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/teaser-enigme.html' title='Teaser ... Enigme'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ODecafWgRRg/TyroKS9TbZI/AAAAAAAAEk0/79Sqk8NQrr8/s72-c/DSC06230.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3887435875403633702</id><published>2012-02-03T16:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-03T16:00:13.419+01:00</updated><title type='text'>7 years go today ... Il y a 7 ans</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang=FR&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Etre père c'est la seule chose que j'ai jamais eu qui ressemblait à une vocation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voyager dans le temps: &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2005/02/kalia-anna-simkins-hallelujah.html"&gt;clic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang=EN&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Paternity is the closest I've ever come (so far) to a vocation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2005/02/kalia-anna-simkins-hallelujah.html"&gt;Click &lt;/a&gt;for time warp.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3887435875403633702?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3887435875403633702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3887435875403633702' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3887435875403633702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3887435875403633702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/7-years-go-today-il-y-7-ans.html' title='7 years go today ... Il y a 7 ans'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-4308900228976972476</id><published>2012-02-03T13:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-03T13:26:16.356+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Good, very good.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang=EN&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Parody of a typical journalistic write-up of 'science'.&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1"&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-4308900228976972476?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/4308900228976972476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=4308900228976972476' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4308900228976972476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4308900228976972476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/good-very-good.html' title='Good, very good.'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-6464953249936625416</id><published>2012-02-02T20:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-02T20:45:43.024+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uQjgPybnzWQ/TymxYbIXCII/AAAAAAAAEkc/myWzJjzMtm8/s1600/DSC06147.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uQjgPybnzWQ/TymxYbIXCII/AAAAAAAAEkc/myWzJjzMtm8/s400/DSC06147.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; (Kalia qui fait un dessin pour l'anniversaire de sa maman).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vous vous rappellez de &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/speechless-sans-mots.html"&gt;mon coup de gueule&lt;/a&gt; de l'année passée?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disponible maintenant en version &lt;a href="http://www.bildungzuhause.ch/"&gt;allemande&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; (Kalia up in her bunk doing a birthday drawing for her Mummy).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember my &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/speechless-sans-mots.html"&gt;little rant&lt;/a&gt; from the end of last year?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now available in &lt;a href="http://www.bildungzuhause.ch/"&gt;German&lt;/a&gt;!.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6464953249936625416?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6464953249936625416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6464953249936625416' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6464953249936625416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6464953249936625416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/art.html' title='Art'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uQjgPybnzWQ/TymxYbIXCII/AAAAAAAAEkc/myWzJjzMtm8/s72-c/DSC06147.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3461583850747468103</id><published>2012-02-01T22:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T22:39:54.164+01:00</updated><title type='text'>WIP</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yot0KTy6J8E/TxsdkZMFMyI/AAAAAAAAEio/6CLxNP_nqjg/s1600/DSC06132.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yot0KTy6J8E/TxsdkZMFMyI/AAAAAAAAEio/6CLxNP_nqjg/s400/DSC06132.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; La cuisine à mi-chantier: il y avait un dénivellé de passé 15mm que j'ai rempli avec du 'ragréage' auto-nivellant. (Ceci avant de me &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/maths-of-stupid-un-calcul-de-con.html"&gt;charcuter&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The kitchen floor half-way through. There was a 15mm drop-off to the right that I filled with self-leveling compound. (This was before I &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/maths-of-stupid-un-calcul-de-con.html"&gt;butchered &lt;/a&gt;my hand).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3461583850747468103?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3461583850747468103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3461583850747468103' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3461583850747468103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3461583850747468103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/02/wip.html' title='WIP'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yot0KTy6J8E/TxsdkZMFMyI/AAAAAAAAEio/6CLxNP_nqjg/s72-c/DSC06132.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-6688976757264784843</id><published>2012-01-31T21:21:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T21:21:00.367+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Playmobil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_7l83c-0hms/TxseM9G76qI/AAAAAAAAEjA/3ay_Q9M13YY/s1600/DSC06135.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_7l83c-0hms/TxseM9G76qI/AAAAAAAAEjA/3ay_Q9M13YY/s400/DSC06135.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Pas facile à voir, mais c'est une mise en scène Playmobil, illuminée par une lampe de poche.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; This one's a bit hard to see, but it's a little Playmobil scenario, lit by a torch hanging off a chair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6688976757264784843?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6688976757264784843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6688976757264784843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6688976757264784843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6688976757264784843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/playmobil.html' title='Playmobil'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_7l83c-0hms/TxseM9G76qI/AAAAAAAAEjA/3ay_Q9M13YY/s72-c/DSC06135.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-2004836846088181167</id><published>2012-01-30T11:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T21:41:22.795+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Helping hand ... Aide</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8bzr8kh6AEU/TxseBvonVeI/AAAAAAAAEi0/bpjRa6PHdWY/s1600/DSC06133.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8bzr8kh6AEU/TxseBvonVeI/AAAAAAAAEi0/bpjRa6PHdWY/s400/DSC06133.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Rebecca qui m'aide à faire le sol de la cuisine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Rebecca helping me do the floor in the kitchen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-2004836846088181167?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/2004836846088181167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=2004836846088181167' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2004836846088181167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2004836846088181167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/helping-hand-aide.html' title='Helping hand ... Aide'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8bzr8kh6AEU/TxseBvonVeI/AAAAAAAAEi0/bpjRa6PHdWY/s72-c/DSC06133.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-266118503770821982</id><published>2012-01-29T21:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T21:39:54.298+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Resourceful ... Debrouille</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7LRiw7hhce4/TxsdMi31JYI/AAAAAAAAEic/EdC2ZYYAQz8/s1600/DSC06121.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7LRiw7hhce4/TxsdMi31JYI/AAAAAAAAEic/EdC2ZYYAQz8/s400/DSC06121.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-266118503770821982?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/266118503770821982/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=266118503770821982' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/266118503770821982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/266118503770821982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/resourceful-debrouille.html' title='Resourceful ... Debrouille'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7LRiw7hhce4/TxsdMi31JYI/AAAAAAAAEic/EdC2ZYYAQz8/s72-c/DSC06121.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5131318931589898613</id><published>2012-01-28T11:18:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T07:43:16.575+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Laura Dekker</title><content type='html'>&lt;img border="0" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/8/28/1251451594883/Laura-Dekker-13-on-her-sa-001.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s1600/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Que pensez de Laura Dekker?&lt;br /&gt;Si vous ne savez pas de qui il s'agit, faites un petit détour par &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Dekker"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personnellement, même si je sais que si c'était ma fille, j'aurais eu les chocottes à mort, je serai fier à exploser d'un tel exploit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puis l'attitude des services sociaux me laisse perplexe: je comprends tout à fait leur souci pour son bien être et sa capacité à prendre une telle décision si jeune, mais s'acharner parce qu'elle va louper une année de scolarité?! C'est complètement ridicule. Qu'est-ce qui peut comparer avec l'expérience éducative de devoir préparer et se préparer pour un tour du monde à voile en solitaire?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et franchement, il y a peut-être moins de danger dans un bâteau en plein océan que dans les cours d'école... Au moins elle faisait pas de la drogue!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai pris le temps de lire un peu son &lt;a href="http://www.lauradekker.nl/English/News.html"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;. Ca ne donne pas l'impression d'une petite jeune en train de réaliser les rêves de ses parents, ni poussé par l'ambition des records. Juste une passionnée de la voile avec un rêve, et beaucoup de volonté.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapeau. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; What do you make of Laura Dekker?&lt;br /&gt;If you don't know who I'm talking about, check &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/23/laura-dekker-sailing-heroine-times"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally, even though I know that if it was my daughter, I'd have been racked with worry throughout, I'd be proud to busting of such an amazing accomplishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I can't really get my head round the social services' attitude: I completely understand them worrying about her physical well-being and her ability to make such a momentous decision at a young age: but insisting on her not missing a year of school seems completely ridiculous. What could possibly compare with the educational experience of preparing for and completing a round the world solo sailing trip?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In some respects she was probably safer in the middle of the ocean that in a school ground - at least she won't have been doing drugs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've read through a bit of her &lt;a href="http://www.lauradekker.nl/English/News.html"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;, she doesn't read like someone who's fulfilling her parents' dreams, or driven by competitivity to beat a record. Just someone who has a vision and is passionate and tenacious enough to see it through.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I envy her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(PS: here's &lt;a href="http://familyonbikes.org/blog/2012/01/if-sailing-around-the-world-doesnt-count-as-education-what-does/"&gt;someone else&lt;/a&gt; who agrees. And some words &lt;a href="http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/the-gist/The-Kid-is-Alright.html"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;express part of what I wanted to convey: "Dekker pulled off a voyage that is unusually pure") &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5131318931589898613?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5131318931589898613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5131318931589898613' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5131318931589898613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5131318931589898613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/laura-dekker.html' title='Laura Dekker'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-1211301959907610427</id><published>2012-01-27T06:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T06:27:00.260+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Blogs of note</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Here are a few blogs/sites I discovered recently that are worth checking out:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill Gates' blog: &lt;a href="http://www.thegatesnotes.com/"&gt;http://www.thegatesnotes.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copenhagen Suborbitals: &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/rocket-shop/"&gt;http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/rocket-shop/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DIY Q&amp;amp;A: &lt;a href="http://diy.stackexchange.com/"&gt;http://diy.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-1211301959907610427?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/1211301959907610427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=1211301959907610427' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1211301959907610427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1211301959907610427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/blogs-of-note.html' title='Blogs of note'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-1487520564101480510</id><published>2012-01-25T09:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T09:14:00.956+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Poorly ... Malade</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UG_sVEy3MDY/Txscq56X_kI/AAAAAAAAEiQ/FQe3b-YPLxk/s1600/DSC06108.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UG_sVEy3MDY/Txscq56X_kI/AAAAAAAAEiQ/FQe3b-YPLxk/s400/DSC06108.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Maintenant elle va mieux, mais elle a passé une semaine difficile de toux, maux de gorge et fièvre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; She's better now, but she did have a rough week of coughing, spluttering, sore throat and high temperatures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-1487520564101480510?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/1487520564101480510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=1487520564101480510' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1487520564101480510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1487520564101480510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/poorly-malade.html' title='Poorly ... Malade'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UG_sVEy3MDY/Txscq56X_kI/AAAAAAAAEiQ/FQe3b-YPLxk/s72-c/DSC06108.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8040200545673695866</id><published>2012-01-21T10:41:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T10:41:39.966+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The maths of stupid ... Un calcul de con</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QBZoGvZB-M8/TxqCuD164DI/AAAAAAAAEh8/tph6QuJbx9A/s1600/eejit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QBZoGvZB-M8/TxqCuD164DI/AAAAAAAAEh8/tph6QuJbx9A/s640/eejit.jpg" width="192" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; "Encore juste ce petit bout avant de me coucher" - et voilà, pour une fois j'aurais mieux fait de regarder la télé!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vous vous demandez peut-être comment j'ai fait pour me blesser à deux endroits en même temps. Et ben, c'était pas en même temps - la première blessure est de 2 jours avant. Oui, je me suis fait avoir deux fois! C'est pas pour rien que c'est marqué 'con' dans le titre!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; "I'll just finish this bit off before going to bed" - for once, I'd have been better advised to watch the telly!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may be wondering how I managed to cut myself in two places at once. I'm afraid that it wasn't at once, it was twice - the first cut was from two days ago. I managed to knacker myself twice. That's why it says 'stupid' in the title...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CNVW6OxIS78/TxqEMLfW3kI/AAAAAAAAEiE/9RLltLvacpM/s1600/DSC06141.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CNVW6OxIS78/TxqEMLfW3kI/AAAAAAAAEiE/9RLltLvacpM/s320/DSC06141.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Pour les curieux, voilà la taille et position de la blessure, dessiné sur l'autre main. Et oui, j'ai dû passé à l'hôpital (l'autre j'ai soigné tout seul). 1 point soucutané, 4 points normaux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bizzarrement ça n'a pas fait trop mal - sur le coup il y avait l'adrenaline, pendant les points il y avait l'anethésie, et puis j'ai pris juste un anti-douleur pour dormir. Je me suis dit que la journée c'est mieux sans anti-douleur - comme ça j'évite de faire de nouvelles conneries.&amp;nbsp; De toute façon j'ai interdiction de bricoler pour l'instant. Dommage, parce que j'ai toujours pas fini la cuisine!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; For the curious, here is the (approximate) size and position of the cut, drawn on the other hand. Notice how it artfully avoids ligaments and veins. It piddled quite a bit, but not in jets. I handled the first cut on my own - the second one I had to go to the hospital. After a 2 hour wait, I got one subcutaneous stitch, and 4 surface ones. The staff at the hospital were delightful (more Cameron than House).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Strangely, it didn't hurt that much - immediately afterwards the adrenaline worked wonders (I even had time to clean the blood stains off the floor!). I got a local anaesthetic during the stitches (just as well, 'cos she had a good ol' poke around inside before to try and see how bad it was. Just one pain killer for tonight. This morning it's bearable and I figure it's best to keep the pain as a reminder not to do any more stupids. In any case, Madame has put her foot down with regards to my DIY activities. Shame, 'cos the kitchen's not finished yet. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8040200545673695866?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8040200545673695866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8040200545673695866' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8040200545673695866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8040200545673695866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/maths-of-stupid-un-calcul-de-con.html' title='The maths of stupid ... Un calcul de con'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QBZoGvZB-M8/TxqCuD164DI/AAAAAAAAEh8/tph6QuJbx9A/s72-c/eejit.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-828031260660122956</id><published>2012-01-17T11:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T11:53:17.903+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Catching up .. Rattrapage</title><content type='html'>&lt;img border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zeOdRMKjH2o/Tu-mWI-86mI/AAAAAAAACSw/m8QwkF_WLUY/s320/intouchables1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Le temps passe, pas le temps pour faire un article par 'chose', alors voilà en vrac:&lt;br /&gt;- La semaine passée, pas mal de bobos chez nous - toux, autites, maux de gorge. Trucs de saison, quoi.&lt;br /&gt;- J'ai commencé à bricoler le sol à la cuisine - photos bientôt.&lt;br /&gt;- On a été (à deux) au cinéma pour voir &lt;a href="http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=182745.html"&gt;Intouchables &lt;/a&gt;(photo ci-dessus). Si vous êtes francophone et vous ne savez pas de quoi il s'agit, vous êtes encore plus coupé du monde que moi! (Sérieusement, ça vaut la peine).&lt;br /&gt;- J'ai aussi regardé deux films à la télé ce week-end (Dune et Ronin) - chose très rare pour moi, mais &lt;i&gt;peut-être&lt;/i&gt; en relation avec le fait que Madame occupait le PC!&lt;br /&gt;- Je viens de découvrir un livre hyper intéressant sur les énergies renouvelables - gratuit en &lt;a href="http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/translate/french/sewtha_20111001_lowres.pdf"&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt; et bientôt disponible en &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.fr/L%C3%A9nergie-durable-Pas-seulement-vent/dp/2804168956/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1326796215&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;papier&lt;/a&gt;. Je viens de le commander, je vous conseilles de faire de même (ou de me l'emprunter, sauf que je l'ai commandé en anglais)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Time flies, and I haven't had time to post each event independently, so here's a brief overview:&lt;br /&gt;- Last week, lots of lurgy in our house - sore throats, coughs, ear-aches, fever, the seasonal works.&lt;br /&gt;- I started a &lt;a href="http://diy.stackexchange.com/q/11322/3539"&gt;side project&lt;/a&gt; for the kitchen floor (photos coming soon)&lt;br /&gt;- We went (just the two of us) to the cinema to watch &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/"&gt;Untouchable&lt;/a&gt;. Definitely worth seeing if you can: my advice would be to &lt;i&gt;avoid&lt;/i&gt; watching trailers or reading up on it if you can, the pleasure is proportional to the novelty.&lt;br /&gt;- I also watched two other films (Dune and Ronin) over the week-end (partly while waiting for self-leveling compound to dry). Exceptional consumption for me, possibly related to the fact that Madame was using the PC!&lt;br /&gt;- Just discovered &lt;a href="http://www.withouthotair.com/"&gt;this book&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/"&gt;xkcd &lt;/a&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/pro-nuclear-japan-fukushima"&gt;George Monbiot&lt;/a&gt; on Guardian website) about the science of renewable energy. Definitely worth a read (&lt;a href="http://www.withouthotair.com/download.html"&gt;free pdf&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0954452933/davidmackay0f-21"&gt;paperback&lt;/a&gt;)!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-828031260660122956?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/828031260660122956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=828031260660122956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/828031260660122956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/828031260660122956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/catching-up-rattrapage.html' title='Catching up .. Rattrapage'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zeOdRMKjH2o/Tu-mWI-86mI/AAAAAAAACSw/m8QwkF_WLUY/s72-c/intouchables1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8198600751319764542</id><published>2012-01-11T22:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T22:48:00.484+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy and sad ... Heureux et triste</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oGWC8XBC_zg/TwImRm4yGmI/AAAAAAAAEhY/hP8cmuXK9ZM/s1600/DSC06090.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oGWC8XBC_zg/TwImRm4yGmI/AAAAAAAAEhY/hP8cmuXK9ZM/s400/DSC06090.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wP57vjguypc/TwImSeZUM6I/AAAAAAAAEhk/iOatEzeicrM/s1600/DSC06092.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wP57vjguypc/TwImSeZUM6I/AAAAAAAAEhk/iOatEzeicrM/s400/DSC06092.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; 'Là haut dans les montages' chez nos amis, il y avait assez de neige pour faire un bonhomme de neige. Ils nous l'ont même commencé avant qu'on arrive. Comme vous pouvez le constaté, son humeur s'est améliorer dès qu'il a reçu son chapeau, son écharpe, et des mains!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; With our friends up in the mountains there was enough snow to do a snowman - they were even kind enough to start it before we arrived. As you can see, his humour picked up a bit once he got a scarf, hat and some hands!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8198600751319764542?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8198600751319764542/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8198600751319764542' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8198600751319764542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8198600751319764542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-and-sad-heureux-et-triste.html' title='Happy and sad ... Heureux et triste'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oGWC8XBC_zg/TwImRm4yGmI/AAAAAAAAEhY/hP8cmuXK9ZM/s72-c/DSC06090.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7627323236325085403</id><published>2012-01-10T13:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T13:43:00.934+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cat ... chat</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qiXaVqSmLeQ/TwImSiTXbGI/AAAAAAAAEhs/fdyu5AeUjp0/s1600/DSC06098.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qiXaVqSmLeQ/TwImSiTXbGI/AAAAAAAAEhs/fdyu5AeUjp0/s400/DSC06098.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Chez nos amis au Val d'Illiers, généralement Kalia réussi à térroriser le chat. Cette fois-ci elle a su rester tranquille assez longtemps pour qu'il accepte de se faire carresser.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; At our friends house, Kalia is usually so excitable that the cat flees in a panic. This time she managed to be calm enough to get to stroke him, though he doesn't look really relaxed...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7627323236325085403?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7627323236325085403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7627323236325085403' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7627323236325085403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7627323236325085403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/cat-chat.html' title='Cat ... chat'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qiXaVqSmLeQ/TwImSiTXbGI/AAAAAAAAEhs/fdyu5AeUjp0/s72-c/DSC06098.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7682747360216254448</id><published>2012-01-08T16:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T16:42:00.582+01:00</updated><title type='text'>'Help' ... 'Aide'</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K62F4FglbmE/TwImRXpHrTI/AAAAAAAAEhM/m7jWkJNVSXU/s1600/DSC06077.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K62F4FglbmE/TwImRXpHrTI/AAAAAAAAEhM/m7jWkJNVSXU/s400/DSC06077.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Parfois quand je demande aux filles de m'aider, je n'ai pas toujours ce que j'attendais...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Sometimes the girls' idea of 'helping Daddy' is...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7682747360216254448?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7682747360216254448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7682747360216254448' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7682747360216254448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7682747360216254448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/help-aide.html' title='&apos;Help&apos; ... &apos;Aide&apos;'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K62F4FglbmE/TwImRXpHrTI/AAAAAAAAEhM/m7jWkJNVSXU/s72-c/DSC06077.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-448641245634499734</id><published>2012-01-07T15:42:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T15:48:22.580+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Candy house ... Maison de pain d'épices</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3rq9InUVflk/TwImQqP5ozI/AAAAAAAAEhA/bvD7N-qypvs/s1600/DSC06072.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3rq9InUVflk/TwImQqP5ozI/AAAAAAAAEhA/bvD7N-qypvs/s400/DSC06072.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Je me suis achete une poche à douilles (et ai appris le vocabulaire en même temps) pour aider les filles à monter une maison en pain d'épices 'Hello Kitty'. Malheureusement, le glaçage que j'ai fait était deux fois trop liquide, alors il a fallu rester un bon moment à le tenir en place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; I had to go out and buy a piping kit to help the girls make their Hello Kitty candy house. Unfortunately I made the icing far too runny, so it didn't really help hold the house together - I had to sit holding it for quite a while (before settling for propping it up with a couple of mugs).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-448641245634499734?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/448641245634499734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=448641245634499734' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/448641245634499734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/448641245634499734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2012/01/candy-house-maison-de-pain-depices.html' title='Candy house ... Maison de pain d&apos;épices'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3rq9InUVflk/TwImQqP5ozI/AAAAAAAAEhA/bvD7N-qypvs/s72-c/DSC06072.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7767379107684231134</id><published>2011-12-29T09:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T09:30:00.480+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Change ... Monnaie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4AJGI35Ixfo/Tvt6f1GDylI/AAAAAAAAEgo/Txbgf4rGpR4/s1600/DSC06069.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4AJGI35Ixfo/Tvt6f1GDylI/AAAAAAAAEgo/Txbgf4rGpR4/s400/DSC06069.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Une gauffre à 4 francs, une pièce de 5 francs, 1 franc de monnaie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; A waffle costs 4 francs, we have a 5 franc coin, that makes 1 franc change.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7767379107684231134?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7767379107684231134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7767379107684231134' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7767379107684231134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7767379107684231134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/change-monnaie.html' title='Change ... Monnaie'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4AJGI35Ixfo/Tvt6f1GDylI/AAAAAAAAEgo/Txbgf4rGpR4/s72-c/DSC06069.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-112931202280996020</id><published>2011-12-28T08:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T08:00:02.797+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas party ... Fête de Noël</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tImUbNEqs_Q/Tvo61InjrzI/AAAAAAAAEgE/ASybFOxf2dU/s1600/DSC_2767.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tImUbNEqs_Q/Tvo61InjrzI/AAAAAAAAEgE/ASybFOxf2dU/s400/DSC_2767.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Cette année, pas de voyage à l'étranger pour Noël, mais on n'est pas resté tout seul chez nous non plus. Avec d'autres, nous avons organisé une fête de Noël à l'église - pour les autres personnes 'seules' comme nous. On pensait avoir peut-être une trentaine de personnes - mais pour finir il y avait 120 inscrits... Madame a passé quelques heures à trouver la meilleure façon de disposer les tables, et de mettre la décoration.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; This year, we didn't travel abroad for Christmas ('abroad' is travelling anyway, as it happens), but we didn't stay at home keeping ourselves to ourselves. Together with a few others, we organised a Christmas party at our church, for any other people who would otherwise also be 'alone'. We expected maybe thirty people to come, but in the end we had 120 people. Madame spent a long time working out the best way to place the tables, and setting out all the places.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-REAXQ8bqBPU/Tvo604JwhmI/AAAAAAAAEf4/PYxf0n3dYb4/s1600/IMGP4802.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-REAXQ8bqBPU/Tvo604JwhmI/AAAAAAAAEf4/PYxf0n3dYb4/s400/IMGP4802.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Puisqu'on a aussi été invités la veille jusqu'à tard, j'ai attendu que les filles se réveillent (à 10h!) pour partir à l'église. Du coup j'ai loupé le culte, mais j'ai eu deux petits anges qui étaient en pleine forme et ont pu s'adapter à la journée peu ordinaire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Given that we were invited out 'til late the previous evening, I stayed at home Christmas morning until the girls woke up (at 10am!) before setting off the church. I missed out on the Christmas service, but in exchange I got two non-crotchety daughters who were up to handling a very non-standard day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3vShB9MsqHM/Tvo61oqBm0I/AAAAAAAAEgQ/yHdjDot1lwI/s1600/IMGP4900.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3vShB9MsqHM/Tvo61oqBm0I/AAAAAAAAEgQ/yHdjDot1lwI/s400/IMGP4900.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Après la soupe, plat principal, fromages et desserts, il y a eu un moment d'animation avec histoires, chants et poésies. Ici Kalia se propose pour une poésie (ne se rappelant plus de poème, elle a dû improviser, mais s'en est bien sortie quand même).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; After the soup, main course, cheeses and desserts, there was a song and stories time, with some kids reciting poems. Here's Kalia volunteering. Once she got there she realised she couldn't remember any poems, so she ad-libbed her way out of it admirably.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tu3FAi81Ito/Tvo62JX3vYI/AAAAAAAAEgc/McG2FrXPVKw/s1600/IMGP4923.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tu3FAi81Ito/Tvo62JX3vYI/AAAAAAAAEgc/McG2FrXPVKw/s400/IMGP4923.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Un copain de Kalia et sa mère se sont donné beaucoup de peine pour faire des centaines de biscuits de Noël de qualité professionnelle!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; One of Kalia's friends (and his mum) made hundreds of Christmas biscuits which looked shop-bought, they were so good!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-112931202280996020?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/112931202280996020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=112931202280996020' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/112931202280996020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/112931202280996020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-party-fete-de-noel.html' title='Christmas party ... Fête de Noël'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tImUbNEqs_Q/Tvo61InjrzI/AAAAAAAAEgE/ASybFOxf2dU/s72-c/DSC_2767.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5211884906816601828</id><published>2011-12-27T15:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T21:19:08.213+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Spot the girl ... Trouver la fille</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U2dvVnUylCQ/TvnStauBucI/AAAAAAAAEfg/fukv1l6AKfw/s1600/DSC06059.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U2dvVnUylCQ/TvnStauBucI/AAAAAAAAEfg/fukv1l6AKfw/s400/DSC06059.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Le bureau de Rebecca.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Rebecca's desk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e5tFMRfDOIg/TvnSthoYKOI/AAAAAAAAEfs/juUUas42qBU/s1600/DSC06063.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e5tFMRfDOIg/TvnSthoYKOI/AAAAAAAAEfs/juUUas42qBU/s400/DSC06063.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Promenade du 26.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Boxing day walk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5211884906816601828?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5211884906816601828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5211884906816601828' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5211884906816601828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5211884906816601828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/spot-girl-trouver-la-fille.html' title='Spot the girl ... Trouver la fille'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U2dvVnUylCQ/TvnStauBucI/AAAAAAAAEfg/fukv1l6AKfw/s72-c/DSC06059.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5905905201599936883</id><published>2011-12-24T09:00:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-24T09:00:02.945+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Liturgy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Comme j'ai déjà dit, l'église de St John est très différent - c'est ce qu'on appelle 'High Church' - ce qui signifie (vue de ma fenêtre) une église anglicane qui ressemble plutôt à une église catholique - avec l'accent sur les robes (oui, je me suis déguisé pour chanter, mais pas encore de photo, désolé!), la tradition, les crucifix, les signes de la croix, même les bougies devant la Madonna...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et puis la liturgie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais la liturgie de ce culte de Noël était 'fait maison' par le pasteur (australien), et ça pourrait bien me faire aimer les liturgies. Quand est-ce la dernière fois que votre église a fait dire quelque chose comme ceci par votre bouche à vos oreilles?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Seigneur, c&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;omme Noël revient année après année, nous sommes tentés de dire: «Nous avons déjà entendu tout cela tant de fois, nous connaissons l'histoire par cœur."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pardonne-nous, Seigneur, et rappelle-nous la différence entre savoir, connaître, et se laisser interpeler encore et encore.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Aide-nous à nous voir et à voir nos propres attitudes dans la vie des personnes de l'histoire de Noël:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;L'aubergiste: qui n'a pas pu trouver de place pour toi dans son auberge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Seigneur, aide nous à cesser d'encombrer nos vies avec d'innombrables choses - des choses qui ne comptent pas vraiment, des choses qui prennent de la place à toi et aux autres.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hérode: Hostile, jaloux et haineux parce qu'il avait peur de qui il était, et de ce que ta venue pourrait signifier pour lui.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Seigneur, aide nous à voir l'effet destructeur de nos jalousies et aide-nous à remplacer nos peurs par l'espoir et nos haines par le pardon.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Les bergers: qui étaient méprisés comme ouvriers non qualifiés, mais qui ont entendu la musique de ta venue, même pendant qu'ils travaillaient.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Seigneur, délivre-nous de la fierté qui considère certaines tâches comme trop ingrates, et des préjugés qui nous aveugle à ta gloire.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Les sages de l'Est qui ont voyagé loin pour te trouver.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Apprends-nous à nouveau, Dieu éternel, que ceux qui cherchent vraiment trouvent, et ne nous laisse pas nous contenter jusqu'à ce que nous avons été trouvés par toi.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Si vous le souhaitez, pendant la période de la musique et la réflexion qui suit, vous pouvez allumer une bougie et le placez dans le stand bougie. Cette bougie peut représenter vos espoirs et vos craintes, qui se sont «rencontré» en vous ce soir. Elle peut représenter quelque chose pour laquelle vous souhaitez rendre grâce, elle peut représenter une personne pour qui vous voulez prier pendant Noël. Quelque soit le sens que vous donnez, n'hésitez pas par l'éclairage de la bougie, à apporter votre vie à Dieu ce Noël&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; As I hinted previously, St John's was very different to All Saints - about has High Church as I've ever seen. The robes (yup, I got to dress up, sorry no photo yet!), the tradition, the crucifix, procession, signs of the cross, even candles in front of the Madonna shrine...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the liturgy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this liturgy was 'home made' by the (Australian) chaplain, and it is the kind of liturgy which could bring me round. When was the last time your church service made your mouth say something like this to your ears?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;As Christmas comes round year by year, Lord, we are tempted to say, "We have heard all this so many times before; we know the story by heart."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Forgive us, Lord, and remind us of the difference between knowing about it, knowing it, and letting it speak to us again and again.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Help us to see ourselves and our own attitudes lived out by people in the Christmas story:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The innkeeper: who couldn't find room for you in his inn&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lord, help us to cease from cluttering our lives with countless things - things that don't really matter; things that crowd you and others out.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Herod: Hostile, jealous and hating because he was afraid of who he was, and what your coming might do to him.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lord, help us to see the destructiveness of our jealousies and help us to replace our fears with hope and our hates with forgiveness.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The shepherds: who were scorned by others as unskilled labourers, but heard the music of your coming even as they worked.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lord, deliver us from the pride that thinks some tasks too menial, and from prejudices that blind us to your glory.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The wise men from the east who journeyed far to find you.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Teach us again, eternal God, that those who really seek will find, and never let us rest content until we have been found by you.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;You may care, during the period of music and reflection that follows, to light a candle and place it in our votive candle stand. This candle may represent your hopes and fears which have 'met' in you tonight. It may represent something for which you wish to give thanks, it may represent someone for whom you wish to pray this Christmas. Whatever is true for you, feel free by the lighting of the candle, to bring your life into the company of God this Christmas.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5905905201599936883?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5905905201599936883/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5905905201599936883' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5905905201599936883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5905905201599936883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/liturgy.html' title='Liturgy'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-2034708667460197417</id><published>2011-12-23T07:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T07:00:02.306+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas tree</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0GPAS5pLQqw/TvJLvIGTY3I/AAAAAAAAEew/gjy9rLIcaK4/s1600/DSC06057.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0GPAS5pLQqw/TvJLvIGTY3I/AAAAAAAAEew/gjy9rLIcaK4/s400/DSC06057.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Cette année c'est les filles qui l'ont décoré. Avec mon aide. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pas parfait, mais elles se sont bien amusés.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; This year, the girls decorated the Christmas tree, helped by me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not perfect, but fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-2034708667460197417?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/2034708667460197417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=2034708667460197417' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2034708667460197417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2034708667460197417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-tree.html' title='Christmas tree'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0GPAS5pLQqw/TvJLvIGTY3I/AAAAAAAAEew/gjy9rLIcaK4/s72-c/DSC06057.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-501647259026464381</id><published>2011-12-22T20:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T20:42:56.901+01:00</updated><title type='text'>BBC Micro - errata</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HugQR9I6Vcg/TvOHm4Bdo4I/AAAAAAAAEfU/JWXZmU6_SgM/s1600/BBC%2BMicro%2B%2526%2BNoel.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="273" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HugQR9I6Vcg/TvOHm4Bdo4I/AAAAAAAAEfU/JWXZmU6_SgM/s400/BBC%2BMicro%2B%2526%2BNoel.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Correction par mon père: j'ai mélangé les souvenirs l'autre jour. Quand on est allé à Londres c'était pour acheter une Atari ST. Ici une photo du BBC en 1983, alors oui, je me fais vieux!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Correction from an authority on the matter: I mixed my memories &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/bbc-micro-is-30-makes-me-old.html"&gt;the other day&lt;/a&gt;, the drive to London was to buy an Atari ST, several years later. Here is a picture of the BBC micro in 1983, so yes, that does make me old!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-501647259026464381?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/501647259026464381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=501647259026464381' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/501647259026464381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/501647259026464381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/bbc-micro-errata.html' title='BBC Micro - errata'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HugQR9I6Vcg/TvOHm4Bdo4I/AAAAAAAAEfU/JWXZmU6_SgM/s72-c/BBC%2BMicro%2B%2526%2BNoel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-2258670292070890580</id><published>2011-12-22T15:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T15:17:00.056+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Playlist</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Le deuxième culte de carols à St John's s'est bien passé - pour le coup c'était un 'vrai' Noël, puisqu'il neigeait à fond!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour être aussi une église anglicane, c'était très - mais très - différente de 'All Saints' la semaine avant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voilà la liste des chants pour les deux fois - en gras les chants chantait par la chorale seule. Ceux avec asterisques c'est ceux qui me donnent le plus la cher de poule!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The second Christmas Carols service at St John's went well - it was a 'real' Christmas service this time, as it was snowing like crazy outside!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The two Anglican churches are very very different (more about that later).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the list of carols - the ones in bold were choir only. Didn't find any decent links for the ones that have no link. The ones with asterisks are the ones that give me goose bumps!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allsaints.ch/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;All Saints&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joy to the World&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMGMV-fujUY&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;Once in Royal David's City&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z3Tz5AIsa0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bethlehem Down&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWlgDARDPzo"&gt;Hark the Herald Angels Sing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mary Had a Baby&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgo-UfyJgc"&gt;See Amid the Winter Snow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STSq2u6vkqI"&gt;&lt;b&gt;*A Spotless Rose&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0IQnYxVRFM"&gt;Unto us is Born a Son&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrX2oHgLqe8"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Away in a Manger&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJIy2JoyH5E"&gt;O come all ye faithful&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Winter Wonderland (this was the 'after show' surprise...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stjohns-montreux.ch/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;St John's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMGMV-fujUY&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Once in Royal David's City&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joy to the World&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJIy2JoyH5E"&gt;O Come all ye Faithful&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2dNKv48WJQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;*The Three Kings&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87m1G0tcHEY"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Torches&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0IQnYxVRFM"&gt;Unto us is Born a Son&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrX2oHgLqe8"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Away in a Manger&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDcSyaW-tTI"&gt;God Rest You Merry Gentlemen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuokbY93s5w"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Past Three o'Clock&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWcg0iRSns"&gt;&lt;b&gt;*Nativity Carol&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJqgspx57C0"&gt;O Little Town of Bethlehem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWlgDARDPzo"&gt;Hark the Herald Angels Sing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-2258670292070890580?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/2258670292070890580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=2258670292070890580' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2258670292070890580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2258670292070890580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/playlist.html' title='Playlist'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-1505270432141962011</id><published>2011-12-19T14:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T14:05:49.658+01:00</updated><title type='text'>BBC Micro is 30, makes me old</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/BBC_Micro_left.jpeg/800px-BBC_Micro_left.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/BBC_Micro_left.jpeg/800px-BBC_Micro_left.jpeg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.reghardware.com/2011/11/30/bbc_micro_model_b_30th_anniversary/"&gt;The BBC Micro turns 30&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember driving to London just before Christmas to buy ours.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-1505270432141962011?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/1505270432141962011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=1505270432141962011' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1505270432141962011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1505270432141962011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/bbc-micro-is-30-makes-me-old.html' title='BBC Micro is 30, makes me old'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-648433502391939894</id><published>2011-12-16T14:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T14:28:01.929+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dystopia'/><title type='text'>Having said that...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16195018"&gt;More optimism&lt;/a&gt; from the (&lt;a href="http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2011/12/just-another-biased-monday.html"&gt;reportedly europhile&lt;/a&gt;) BBC:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;Here is the simple equation which makes it quite hard to be  optimistic about what lies ahead for the eurozone: the stability of the  eurozone probably requires Germany to underwrite more-or-less all  eurozone sovereign debts, to end the contagion from weak sovereigns to  weak banks; but that won't happen unless and until there is an  all-powerful finance minister (in effect) for the whole of the eurozone,  to reassure Germany and the German people they wouldn't be throwing  good money after bad. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;Or to put it another way, unless a country like France is  prepared to make a much greater sacrifice (for the good of the currency  union) of its own government's budget-making powers than it currently  seems prepared to do, it is quite hard to paint a rosy picture for the  eurozone. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-648433502391939894?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/648433502391939894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=648433502391939894' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/648433502391939894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/648433502391939894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/having-said-that.html' title='Having said that...'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-6655156793236261621</id><published>2011-12-14T16:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T16:47:01.267+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kitchen ... Cuisine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nGJSUw8kWjE/Tt_RBtaNhyI/AAAAAAAAEeY/mfWVxf9olY8/s1600/DSC06034.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nGJSUw8kWjE/Tt_RBtaNhyI/AAAAAAAAEeY/mfWVxf9olY8/s400/DSC06034.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Encore des aventures à la cuisine. J'ai lu sur internet qu'un moyen 'rapide' de décortiquer les noisettes c'est des les mettre dans un sac en plastique et les matraquer avec un marteau. J'avais des doutes mais je me suis dit que filles allaient s'éclater en essayant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusion: beaucoup de purée de noisette, pas mal de chenit par terre (le sac s'ouvrait tout le temps) et des bras fatigués assez rapidement. J'ai essayé moi-même et ce n'est pas facile de doser la force de frappe. On dirait que je vais devoir passer quelques longues soirées avec une casse-noisette (j'ai ramassé 5 kilos de noisettes cette année).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; More kitchen fun. I read somewhere on the internet that a 'quick' way to de-shell hazelnuts is to stick them in a bag and whop them with a hammer. Somewhat dubious but I thought the girls would have fun trying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusion: lots of hazelnut mash, bits all over the floor (because the bag kept opening), and tired arms after a short time. I tried myself but it's not easy to accurately dose the whop-strength. Looks like I've got a couple of long evenings with a nut-cracker in store. (I collected 5kg of nuts this autumn...).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1c08F6vaEtE/Tt_RBs3ZE8I/AAAAAAAAEeo/XnXBTMm1ec0/s1600/DSC06036.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1c08F6vaEtE/Tt_RBs3ZE8I/AAAAAAAAEeo/XnXBTMm1ec0/s400/DSC06036.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Après ça, on s'est amusé à faire des biscuits de Noël, au citron, c'était très miam ! Après Kalia en a contrôlé l'accès avec soin - pas tout le monde y avait droit, puis c'était au compte gouttes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voilà elle qui fait la vaiselle après.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; We then proceeded to make some Christmas biscuits (very seasonal activity&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=biscuits+de+noel+site:.ch"&gt; here in Swissland&lt;/a&gt;, I don't know if there's a UK equivalent, though I gather that in the states they make 'candy houses', or something like that).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos of that another time. Here's Kalia doing the washing-up. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6655156793236261621?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6655156793236261621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6655156793236261621' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6655156793236261621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6655156793236261621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/kitchen-cuisine.html' title='Kitchen ... 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Un nouveau blog</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Si vous vous ennuyez ici, vous trouvez qu'il n'y a pas assez de lecture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et surtout pas assez de photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Faites un tour &lt;a href="http://apprendreheureux.blogspot.com/"&gt;par ici&lt;/a&gt;, où un nouveau blog vous attend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maintenant vous comprenez pourquoi j'insistais autant pour &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-reader.html"&gt;Google Reader&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Bored here?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not enough posts?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not enough photos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://apprendreheureux.blogspot.com/"&gt;Head over here&lt;/a&gt;, where there is a brand spanking new blog waiting for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you know why I was banging on about &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-reader.html"&gt;Google Reader&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6043698958518463082?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6043698958518463082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6043698958518463082' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6043698958518463082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6043698958518463082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-blog-un-nouveau-blog.html' title='New blog ... Un nouveau blog'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-1885167057913553636</id><published>2011-12-11T21:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T21:42:00.454+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Creux du Van</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cHVZOVcdJqE/Tt_PtRC4vQI/AAAAAAAAEdo/2f8FOAEjiMs/s1600/DSC06010.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cHVZOVcdJqE/Tt_PtRC4vQI/AAAAAAAAEdo/2f8FOAEjiMs/s400/DSC06010.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Ca faisait au moins trois ans qu'on en parlait, et voilà qu'au mois de novembre on a enfin pu monter au &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creux-du-Van"&gt;Creux du Van&lt;/a&gt; avec Charles. (C'était l'occasion pour moi d'apprendre que ce n'était pas 'Creux du Vent')&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'était une journée pourrie et grise - en bas. Mais en haut c'était magnifique - et exceptionnellement pour la période, pas de neige (il n'a pas plu de tout le mois de novembre!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est incroyable de se retrouver par dessus cette mer de nuages.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; After at least three years of talking about going, two weeks ago we finally got our act together and Charles took me to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creux_du_Van"&gt;Creux du Van&lt;/a&gt;. It was a grey day - down below. But up above it was pure blue skies and sun. Usually at this time of year there would be snow, but as it didn't rain at all for the whole month of november, there wasn't any.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's amazing to be above the sea of cloud.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a aiotitle="" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-konnU5wiqm4/Tt_PtsuYkGI/AAAAAAAAEdw/pw4SEA0DryU/s1600/DSC06012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-konnU5wiqm4/Tt_PtsuYkGI/AAAAAAAAEdw/pw4SEA0DryU/s400/DSC06012.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Voilà une photo prise depuis un côté du Creux du Van.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Here's what it looks like.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CHeu8LKwJFg/Tt_PtqaBmeI/AAAAAAAAEeE/vFwb0afY-mo/s1600/DSC06021.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CHeu8LKwJFg/Tt_PtqaBmeI/AAAAAAAAEeE/vFwb0afY-mo/s400/DSC06021.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Sur cette photo, la petite bosse au milieu de 'la mer' est en fait le Mont Pélerin, qui 'domine' chez nous, mais qui se fait largement dominé ici par les nuages.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; On this photo, the little 'island' in the centre is the Mont Pelerin, which 'towers' over where we live, but here is almost submerged by the cloud.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vxpi6Jvs4d8/Tt_PucfpJKI/AAAAAAAAEeM/I9sh0v9-ZTg/s1600/DSC06031.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vxpi6Jvs4d8/Tt_PucfpJKI/AAAAAAAAEeM/I9sh0v9-ZTg/s400/DSC06031.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Voilà pour terminer une photo de ce qu'il y avait 'au dessous des nuages'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; And here's what it looked like beneath the sea of clouds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-1885167057913553636?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/1885167057913553636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=1885167057913553636' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1885167057913553636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1885167057913553636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/creux-du-van.html' title='Creux du Van'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cHVZOVcdJqE/Tt_PtRC4vQI/AAAAAAAAEdo/2f8FOAEjiMs/s72-c/DSC06010.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7487420214316196983</id><published>2011-12-09T12:29:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T00:14:37.259+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Stop Press! Wisdom on BBC website</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Get a load of &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16098582"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;How will the euro-crisis end?&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Who knows?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Anyone who says they know how this will end is deluding themselves&lt;/b&gt;    If anything is certain about this crisis, it is that nothing is certain.  A big bank could suddenly fail. A government could fall, or announce a  surprise referendum. Governments or central banks could conjure up a  plan that might, just might restore calm (as in 2008). The economic data  could turn out much better, or much worse, than expected. Public  protests could explode - demanding exit from the euro, or demanding a  democratically elected government in Brussels. Leaders could resign or  be removed. Everything could be overshadowed by a crisis in an entirely  different part of the globe (Russia? China? Iran?). Making predictions  is a fool's game.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7487420214316196983?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7487420214316196983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7487420214316196983' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7487420214316196983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7487420214316196983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/stop-press-wisdom-on-bbc-website.html' title='Stop Press! Wisdom on BBC website'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5706676014987759801</id><published>2011-12-07T17:06:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T17:06:00.739+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nuggets'/><title type='text'>Living in your head ... Dans ma tête</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; En rapport avec ce que j'ai écrit &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/inspiration.html"&gt;il y a deux jours&lt;/a&gt;, lisez &lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&amp;amp;tl=fr&amp;amp;js=n&amp;amp;prev=_t&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;layout=2&amp;amp;eotf=1&amp;amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.internetmonk.com%2Farchive%2Fpete-enns-honor-your-head-don%25e2%2580%2599t-live-in-it"&gt;ceci &lt;/a&gt;(traduction automatique, désolé).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; In relation to &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/inspiration.html"&gt;what I wrote&lt;/a&gt; two days ago, get a load of &lt;a href="http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/pete-enns-honor-your-head-don%e2%80%99t-live-in-it"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5706676014987759801?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5706676014987759801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5706676014987759801' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5706676014987759801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5706676014987759801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/living-in-your-head-dans-ma-tete.html' title='Living in your head ... Dans ma tête'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8322042209107144777</id><published>2011-12-06T17:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T17:38:00.671+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Back to nature ... Retour à la nature</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; J'ai trouvé cette citation &lt;a href="http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/before-we-can-become-gods-we-must-be-men"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;Le païen moderne, enfant de la technologie ou «l'homme de masse», ne jouit même pas de l'angoisse du dualisme ou le confort du mythe. Ses angoisses ne sont plus nées de l'aspiration éternelle, mais elles sont certainement ancrées dans la conscience de la mort. L'«Homme de masse» est encore plus que chuté. Il ne vit pas seulement en dessous du niveau de la grâce, mais en dessous du niveau de la nature - en dessous de sa propre humanité. Il n'est plus en contact avec le monde créé ou avec lui-même, hors de contact avec la réalité de la nature, il vit dans le monde des obsessions collectives, le monde des systèmes et des fictions avec laquelle l'homme moderne s'est entouré. Dans un tel monde, la vie de l'homme n'est même plus un cycle saisonnier. C'est un vol linéaire vers le néant, une fuite de la réalité et de Dieu, sans but et sans objectif, sauf à continuer à avancer, pour éviter d'avoir à affronter la réalité ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour vivre dans le Christ, nous devons d'abord rompre avec ce vol linéaire vers le néant et récupérer le rythme et l'ordre de la nature réelle de l'homme. Avant que nous pouvons devenir des dieux nous devons d'abord être des hommes. Pour l'homme en Christ, le cycle des saisons est quelque chose d'entièrement nouveau. Il est devenu un cycle de salut. L'année n'est pas simplement une autre année, c'est l'année du Seigneur, une année durant laquelle le passage du temps lui-même nous apporte non seulement le renouvellement naturel du printemps et la fécondité d'un été terrestre, mais aussi la fécondité spirituelle et intérieure de grâce. La durée de vie de la chair qui monte et descend comme les saisons et tend toujours à son déclin dernière est élevée et supplantée par une vie de l'esprit qui ne connaît pas déclin, et qui croît toujours en ceux qui vivent avec le Christ dans l'année liturgique. «Même si notre être extérieur se détruit, notre être intérieur se renouvelle de jour en jour. . . . &lt;span class="text"&gt;Nous savons, en effet, que si notre demeure  terrestre, qui n’est qu’une tente, est détruite, nous avons dans les  cieux une construction qui est l’ouvrage de Dieu, une demeure éternelle  qui n’a pas été fabriquée par des mains humaines.&lt;/span&gt; »(II Cor 4:16;. 5:1). &lt;/blockquote&gt;Retrouver notre chemin vers Dieu c'est d'abord nous retrouver nous-mêmes : fuire les multiples distractions qui nous 'extériorisent', et 'rentrer en nous-mêmes' pour renouer avec nos âmes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Quote found &lt;a href="http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/before-we-can-become-gods-we-must-be-men"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The modern pagan, the child of technology or the “mass man,” does not  even enjoy the anguish of dualism or the comfort of myth. His anxieties  are no longer born of eternal aspiration, though they are certainly  rooted in a consciousness of death. “Mass man” is something more than  fallen. He lives not only below the level of grace, but below the level  of nature—below his own humanity. No longer in contact with the created  world or with himself, out of touch with the reality of nature, he lives  in the world of collective obsessions, the world of systems and  fictions with which modern man has surrounded himself. In such a world,  man’s life is no longer even a seasonal cycle. It’s a linear flight into  nothingness, a flight from reality and from God, without purpose and  without objective, except to keep moving, to keep from having to face  reality….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To live in Christ we must first break away from this linear flight  into nothingness and recover the rhythm and order of man’s real nature.  Before we can become gods we must first be men. For man in Christ, the  cycle of the seasons is something entirely new. It has become a cycle of  salvation. The year is not just another year, it is the year of the  Lord—a year in which the passage of time itself brings us not only the  natural renewal of spring and the fruitfulness of an earthly summer, but  also the spiritual and interior fruitfulness of grace. The life of the  flesh which ebbs and flows like the seasons and tends always to its last  decline is elevated and supplanted by a life of the spirit which knows  no decrease, which always grows in those who live with Christ in the  liturgical year. “For though the outward man is corrupted, yet the  inward man is renewed day by day. . . . For we know if our earthly house  of this habitation be dissolved that we have a building of God, a house  not made with hands, eternal in heaven.” (II Cor. 4:16; 5:1)&lt;/blockquote&gt;Finding our way back to God implies first finding our way back to ourselves; shunning the multiple distractions that keep us on the outside, on the periphery of our own souls.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Sorry, a bit lacking in photos recently; more soon, promise!).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8322042209107144777?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8322042209107144777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8322042209107144777' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8322042209107144777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8322042209107144777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/back-to-nature-retour-la-nature.html' title='Back to nature ... Retour à la nature'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3613917401646715788</id><published>2011-12-05T12:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-05T12:54:29.801+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nuggets'/><title type='text'>Inspiration</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Il m'arrive parfois d'avoir des moments de lucidité accrue où je perçois des petites pépites de vérité, que j'aime bien rendre dans des phrases ultra-concentré qui à la fois résume bien l'idée, et oblige l'autre à 'déballer' lui-même pour en goûter le sens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une fois j'en ai sorti une qui a tellement plu que j'ai dû le repêter pour que l'autre puisse le noter, et puis aller sur internet pour bien contrôler que c'était de moi. Malheureusement, étourdit que je suis, je ne l'ai pas noté moi-même. Mais voilà le truc: c'est que sur le moment, ça me paraissait tellement évident qu'il était inconcevable que je puisse un jour l'oublier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et effectivement, peut-être que cette pensée-là est maintenant tellement intégrée dans ma façon de voir que si je devais ré-entendre la phrase je le trouverais évidente, quelconque, voire gênant de banalité. Comme &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2009/06/post-evangelical.html"&gt;j'ai déjà noté ici&lt;/a&gt;, notre appréciation d'une même idée peut passer par beaucoup d'étapes: incompréhensible, révolutionnaire, normale, évident, banale, passée...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bref, tout ça pour dire que pour ne pas les oublier, je vais commencer à les noter ici, quitte à faire honte à un futur moi !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; I sometimes have fleeting moments of enhanced lucidity where I perceive little nuggets of truth, which I like to wrap up in concentrated pithy phrases which package the whole idea, but force the listener to unwrap them mentally and thus (hopefully) truly comprehend the meaning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I once came out with such a good one that the person I was talking to made me repeat it so that they could note it down. Which prompted me to go search the internet to check that it really was mine. Unfortunately, I didn't actually bother to write it down myself, so I can't remember what it was now. But here's the thing: at that moment, the thought was so obvious to me that I didn't even imagine I could ever forget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it's quite possible that that 'truth' has now become such a part of my way of thinking that if I were to here my pithy phrase again, I'd just find obvious, boring, and possibly inane to the point of embarrassment. As &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2009/06/post-evangelical.html"&gt;I wrote here&lt;/a&gt; a while ago, our perception of any given idea can pass through a whole load of phases: incomprehensible, revolutionary, obvious, ordinary, banal, old hat...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This just to say that I'll start posting them here, as a way of not forgetting, and at the risk of embarrassing my future self. (They will be labelled 'Nuggets': you may chose whether they are of gold or reconstituted chicken innards and sawdust) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3613917401646715788?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3613917401646715788/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3613917401646715788' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3613917401646715788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3613917401646715788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/inspiration.html' title='Inspiration'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8590260083295912672</id><published>2011-12-03T20:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T20:47:00.559+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Google Reader</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wKo1IIKjlWo/TtfbWZ0k_HI/AAAAAAAAEdc/8tzNLoVUqIE/s1600/reader.png" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="257" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wKo1IIKjlWo/TtfbWZ0k_HI/AAAAAAAAEdc/8tzNLoVUqIE/s400/reader.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Bon, j'en ai déjà parlé, mais ça fait &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-reader.html"&gt;déjà 4 ans en arrière&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alors ressayons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Qu'est-ce Google Reader, et pourquoi vous le voulez?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google Reader est un 'lecteur de flux' qui vous permet de suivre tous les sites et blogs qui vous intéressent, en les lisant sur une seule page web qui fonctionne comme votre boîte de mail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ainsi, vous n'aurez plus besoin de mémoriser une liste de liens, et de les visiter périodiquement pour voir s'il y a du neuf. Vous avez juste un site à visiter, un lien à vous rappeler, et vous lisez tout au même endroit. De plus, puisque c'est sur le web, vous pouvez le lire depuis n'importe où, et il sait ce que vous avez déjà lu ou pas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cliquer sur l'image ci-dessus pour voir à quoi ça ressemble chez moi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vous êtes intéressés, télécharger &lt;a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2835366/D%C3%A9marrerAvecGoogleReader.pdf"&gt;ce document préparé par mes soins&lt;/a&gt; et suivez les instructions (à l'écran ça a l'air un peu bizarre, mais c'est prévu pour l'impression, avec &lt;a href="http://www.ecofont.com/"&gt;EcoFont&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; OK, I know I've already plugged this, but it was &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-reader.html"&gt;more than 4 years ago&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let's try again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;What is Google Reader, and why do you want it?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google Reader is a 'feed reader' that can help you to keep up to date with all the blogs and sites you're interested in by reading them in a web interface which works like your email inbox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That means you no longer have to keep a list of bookmarks, and remember to visit them periodically to check if anything's changed. You get just one interface, one website to remember, and you read them from there. What's more, because it's web-based, it knows what you've already read, and wherever you read it from, it will tell you what's new.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you click on the image above, you'll get a glimpse of what my inbox looks like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're interested, &lt;a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2835366/SettingUpGoogleReader.pdf"&gt;download this hand-crafted document&lt;/a&gt; and follow the instructions (it looks funny onscreen, because it uses &lt;a href="http://www.ecofont.com/"&gt;EcoFont &lt;/a&gt;- but it is printer friendly)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8590260083295912672?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8590260083295912672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8590260083295912672' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8590260083295912672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8590260083295912672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-reader.html' title='Google Reader'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wKo1IIKjlWo/TtfbWZ0k_HI/AAAAAAAAEdc/8tzNLoVUqIE/s72-c/reader.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3192647189273587035</id><published>2011-12-02T18:28:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-02T18:28:00.115+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Turkey ... Dinde</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; J'ai fait une bonne affaire grâce au fait que la Migros du coin a spéculé sur le nombre d'Américains qui allaient acheter des dindes pour Thanksgiving. J'ai eu une bête de 3kg à moitié prix (remarque, ce n'est pas une bête à l'échelle américaine, leurs tabelles de cuisson commencent à 5kg!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le seul problème était que je devais la cuire rapidos, puisqu'elle passait la date et qu'elle ne rentrait pas dans le congélateur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai cherché sur internet est suis tombé sur un site qui explique comment rôtir une dinde sans que la poitrine soit tout déséchée, et sans s'empoisoner (&lt;a href="http://www.howtocookathanksgivingturkey.com/"&gt;http://www.howtocookathanksgivingturkey.com&lt;/a&gt;). La méthode avait l'air assez simple, et ça m'a réussi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Voilà une traduction en kilos:&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sortir la dinde (préalablement décongelée) du frigo une heure avant de cuire&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La laver à l'intérieur et l'extérieur &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Préchauffer le four à 250C&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Séparer délicatement la peau de la poitrine, en glissant la main par le trou du cou, sans la déchirer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enduire toute la surface de la poitrine (en dessous de la peau) avec du beurre fondu&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ajouter aussi des herbes selon vos goûts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Refermer la peau&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mettre sel/poivre sur toute la bête pour ajouter du goût&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cuire à 250C pendant 20 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Réduire à 120C sans ouvrir la porte&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cuire encore 45 minutes pour chaque kilo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vérifier avec un thermomètre à viande que l'intérieur de la cuisse est à 82C et la poitrine 77C.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;J'ai aussi fait une bonne soupe avec la carcasse!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; I got a good bargain out of the fact that the local supermarket wildly overestimated the number of Americans who'd be buying Thanksgiving turkeys. I got a 3kg monster at half price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only problem was I had to cook it quickly, as it was almost past sell-by and wouldn't fit in the freezer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I went looking on the internet and found this site: &lt;a href="http://www.howtocookathanksgivingturkey.com/"&gt;http://www.howtocookathanksgivingturkey.com&lt;/a&gt;. The method described there has the advantage of being relatively simple, though apparently &lt;a href="http://www.howtocookathanksgivingturkey.com/How_Cook_Turkey_Pages/turkey-disasters.html"&gt;not guaranteed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it worked for me, the meat was juicy and delicious, and I made a load of soup out of the bones too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a metric version of the 'magic' method:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get (completely defrosted) turkey out of fridge an hour in advance&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wash it in and out!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Preheat oven to 250C&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gently separate the skin from the breast (without removing it)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Spread melted butter inside this area, all over the breast.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Add herbs of your own choosing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fold the skin back over the neck cavity &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Salt/pepper to taste all over the outside&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cook at 250C for 20 minutes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Reduce temperature to 120C (without opening the door)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cook an additional 45 minutes for each kg&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Check with a meat thermometer that the thigh is at 82C and breast at 77C &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Just goes to show that one man's Thanksgiving is another man's Christmas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3192647189273587035?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3192647189273587035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3192647189273587035' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3192647189273587035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3192647189273587035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/turkey-dinde.html' title='Turkey ... Dinde'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5403765614067588966</id><published>2011-12-01T11:27:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T11:27:00.073+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Goosebumps ... Chair de poule</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/STSq2u6vkqI?rel=0" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Depuis plusieurs années j'assiste avec plaisir à la soirée de chants de Noël à l'église Anglicane à Vevey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette année, je me suis enfin décidé à faire parti de la chorale, et lundi c'était ma première répétition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voilà un des chants qu'on va interprêter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'espère juste que j'arrive à chanter tous ces merveilleux cantiques sans me mettre à pleurer !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Having sung along happily at the local Anglican (yes, here in Switzerland) church's annual carols service for the last few years, I've finally got my act together and decided to be part of the choir this year. I missed the first two rehearsals, so Monday evening was my first time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is one of the carols we're singing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm hoping I'm going to be able to make it through the whole service without blubbing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*(Music buffs may have fun trying to work out what the time signature is)*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5403765614067588966?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5403765614067588966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5403765614067588966' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5403765614067588966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5403765614067588966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/12/goosebumps-chair-de-poule.html' title='Goosebumps ... Chair de poule'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/STSq2u6vkqI/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-1875867515175325262</id><published>2011-11-29T12:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T12:26:28.042+01:00</updated><title type='text'>My Afternoons with Margueritte ... La tête en friche</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LN9rznAghCU/Tszg5ZGARkI/AAAAAAAAEdA/f7aEpyLkCvk/s1600/tetefriche.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LN9rznAghCU/Tszg5ZGARkI/AAAAAAAAEdA/f7aEpyLkCvk/s400/tetefriche.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Dernièrement on a regardé un &lt;a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/2010/06/01/03002-20100601ARTFIG00493-le-colosse-et-la-vieille-dame.php"&gt;autre film charmant&lt;/a&gt;, avec ce monstre qui est Gérard Dépardieu. C'est vraiment un acteur incroyable: malgré sa physique, il arrive à se glisser dans des rôles très différents, et &lt;i&gt;vous faire oublier que c'est lui.&lt;/i&gt;..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; We watched another &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1455151/"&gt;beautiful film&lt;/a&gt; recently, with the amazing Gérard Dépardieu. He really is an amazing actor: despite his instantly recognisable appearance, he manages to take on wildly different roles and make you forget that it's him. Must watch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-1875867515175325262?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/1875867515175325262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=1875867515175325262' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1875867515175325262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1875867515175325262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-afternoons-with-margueritte-la-tete.html' title='My Afternoons with Margueritte ... La tête en friche'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LN9rznAghCU/Tszg5ZGARkI/AAAAAAAAEdA/f7aEpyLkCvk/s72-c/tetefriche.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-2932602462513930181</id><published>2011-11-23T17:42:00.081+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T17:42:00.182+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unschool'/><title type='text'>Speechless* ... Sans mots</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CxY5JfopWCA/TstG6ovhmjI/AAAAAAAAEcs/48ld9XcYiqg/s1600/socialization.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CxY5JfopWCA/TstG6ovhmjI/AAAAAAAAEcs/48ld9XcYiqg/s400/socialization.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; &lt;i&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.tdg.ch/depeches/suisse/tribunal-federal-autorise-ecole-distance"&gt;Le Tribunal fédéral n'autorise pas l'école à distance&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Le cas concerne un couple de Zurichois qui voulait que ses quatre  enfants suivent un enseignement à distance diffusé depuis l'Allemagne.  Si les enfants ont des questions, les enseignants sont atteignables par  téléphone, courriel et webcam.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Les autorités zurichoises ont refusé d'accorder une autorisation aux  parents qui ont fait recours auprès des tribunaux. Le Tribunal fédéral a  donné raison au canton.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pour le TF, l'enseignement à distance n'est pas compatible avec la  Constitution fédérale dans laquelle est ancré le principe du droit à un  enseignement de base suffisant. L'enseignement de base doit donner aux  enfants des connaissances scolaires et sociales.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Le contact et les échanges avec d'autres adultes, enfants, cultures  et religions contribuent au développement social des élèves. Avec  l'enseignement à distance, il est marginal, car l'élève n'a pas de  contact direct avec les autres."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mamma Mia! Comment on peut avoir autant tort sans être ridiculisé?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Premièrement: veuillez prouver que c'est effectivement le cas que les écoles enseignent la 'socialisation': pour autant que je saches, il n'y a à aucun moment d'examen ou de test pour déterminer si ces 'capacités' ont été atteintes. Donc, c'est juste une question de foi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deuxièmement: Veuillez démontrer qu'à l'école les enfants ont effectivement 'un contact et des échanges' avec d'autres cultures et religions. La plupart des écoles dans la plupart des pays ont un rayonnement géographique limité à une rélativement petite communauté, et la plupart des communautés dans la plupart des pays sont habitées par des personnes de culture et de religion largement homogènes. Je ne dis pas qu'il n'y a pas de villes et d'écoles avec des 'minorités ethniques', mais si ce jugement dit que ce sont des composants &lt;i&gt;nécessaires &lt;/i&gt;d'un 'enseignement de base', cette mixité devrait être &lt;i&gt;appliquée de force&lt;/i&gt;, partout. En plus, je ne suis pas convaincu qu'avoir une maîtresse pour 20+ élèves peut être considéré comme 'du contact et des échanges avec d'autre&lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt; adulte&lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;', et en tout cas, &lt;i&gt;pas plus&lt;/i&gt; qu'avec un parent (ou deux).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Troisièmement: veuillez m'expliquer comment cet 'contact et échange' avec d'autres adultes, enfants, cultures et religions ne peut pas avoir lieu &lt;i&gt;en dehors&lt;/i&gt; des périodes d'enseignement 'officiel' (que ce soit à l'école ou à la maison). Comment pouvez-vous déterminer que ces enfants vont nécessairement être cloîtrés et privés de tout contact avec le monde extérieur ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quatrièmement: Même si c'était le cas, &lt;i&gt;en quoi cela vous concerne&lt;/i&gt;?! De quel droit l'état intervient dans ce qui se passe dans les têtes de nos enfants? Surtout dans un domaine qui est nécessairement non-quantifiable et totalement basés sur des jugements &lt;i&gt;a priori &lt;/i&gt;(et à l'emporte-pièce).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est le genre de truc qui me ferait émigrer aux Etats Unis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et acheter un fusil :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; &lt;i&gt;"&lt;a aiotitle="The Federal Court does not allow distance learning" href="http://www.tdg.ch/depeches/suisse/tribunal-federal-autorise-ecole-distance"&gt;The Federal Court does not allow distance learning&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;The case concerns a couple from Zurich who wanted their four children to use distance learning provided from Germany. If the children have questions, teachers can be reached by phone, email and webcam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Zurich authorities refused to grant permission to the parents, who appealed to the courts. The Federal Court agreed with the district.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the TF, distance education is not compatible with the Federal Constitution which is rooted to the principle of the right to an adequate basic education. Basic education should provide children with academic and social skills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The contact and exchange with other adults, children, cultures and religions contribute to social development of students. With distance learning, it is marginal, because the student does not have direct contact with others."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh please, oh please, oh please! How many different types of wrong can you be?!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, please prove to me that schools &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; effectively teach 'socialisation': as far as I know, there are no exams or tests to prove that these 'skills' have been acquired. So it appears to be an article of faith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, please demonstrate that at school children 'contact and exchange' with other cultures and religions. Most schools in most countries have geographical catchments, and most areas in most countries are inhabited by people of roughly similar culture and religion. I'm not saying that there aren't towns and schools with 'ethnic minorities', but if this judgement is saying that these are &lt;i&gt;necessary&lt;/i&gt; parts of a 'basic education', this 'mixity' should be &lt;i&gt;enforced&lt;/i&gt;, everywhere. Also, I'm not sure that having a teacher counts as 'contact and exchange with other adults', in any case, no &lt;i&gt;more so&lt;/i&gt; than having a parent (or two).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thirdly, please explain how the 'contact and exchange' with other adults, children, cultures and religions can &lt;i&gt;not &lt;/i&gt;happen outside of the official 'schooling' periods (be that at school or at home). How can you determine that these children will necessarily be cloistered and deprived of any contact with the outside world?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fourthly, even if that were the case, &lt;i&gt;what business is it of yours&lt;/i&gt;?! What business has the state in intervening in what happens inside our children's heads? Especially in a domain which is necessarily non-quantifiable and totally based on &lt;i&gt;a priori&lt;/i&gt; value judgements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the kind of thing which makes me want to migrate to the States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And buy a gun! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(* OK, maybe not &lt;i&gt;that &lt;/i&gt;speechless!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-2932602462513930181?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/2932602462513930181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=2932602462513930181' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2932602462513930181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2932602462513930181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/speechless-sans-mots.html' title='Speechless* ... Sans mots'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CxY5JfopWCA/TstG6ovhmjI/AAAAAAAAEcs/48ld9XcYiqg/s72-c/socialization.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3655568559908505444</id><published>2011-11-22T08:37:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T08:37:00.305+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dystopia'/><title type='text'>Hope for the future? ... Espoir pour l'avenir ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; I distinctly remember - back when I was a teenager - a visitor to our house asking me how I felt about the future: I answered something to the effect that for myself, I was reasonably serene &lt;i&gt;(probably through an erroneous - &lt;a href="http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-invasion-of-life"&gt;I now believe&lt;/a&gt; - faith that God prevents bad things happening to Christians)&lt;/i&gt;, but for the world in general, not so much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apart from my innate (or acquired?) pessimistic bent, I wonder what my informs and inspires my dystopic nightmares (I mean that figuratively and literally, fortunately more often the former than the latter - think of something like &lt;a href="http://images.google.com/search?q=the+road"&gt;The Road&lt;/a&gt;, which I haven't seen, for fear of too much resonance).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, here are some things that feed them:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://possil.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/mob-rule-does-not-equal-stability/"&gt;Mob Rule does not Equal Stability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://epiekoster.net/stockcheck/#"&gt;The Age of Depletion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/21/vietnam-rice-bowl-threatened-rising-seas"&gt;Vietnam's Rice Bowl Threatened by Rising Seas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/douthat-conspiracies-coups-and-currencies.htm"&gt;Conspiracies, Coups and Currencies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3655568559908505444?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3655568559908505444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3655568559908505444' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3655568559908505444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3655568559908505444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/hope-for-future-espoir-pour-lavenir.html' title='Hope for the future? ... Espoir pour l&apos;avenir ?'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3634241618085142256</id><published>2011-11-21T18:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-21T18:10:00.129+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ready for statehood? ... A la hauteur ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Qu'avez-vous penser de la votation à l'ONU pour que la reconnaissance de Palestine comme état ? Mon souvenir était beaucoup de réactions 'positives' dans les média.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aujourd'hui j'ai lu la citation suivante, dans un journal anglais:&lt;br /&gt;"Un représentant de Hamas, Ahmed Youssef, a informé l'agence de presse allémande DPA que le groupe se réjouissait des attaques, même s'il ne pensait pas qu'ils en était les auteurs."&lt;br /&gt;Et ben, c'est encourageant: voilà &lt;b&gt;deux &lt;/b&gt;indications en une seule phrase qu'ils ne sont pas à la hauteur. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; What did you think of the projected (now &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/11/united-nations-delays-palestinian-statehood-vote"&gt;apparently temporarily abandoned&lt;/a&gt;) push for statehood for Palestine at the UN? I seem to remember lots of media pundits making positive noises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/18/israeli-bus-attacked-border-egypt"&gt;this quote&lt;/a&gt; today in a back-number of the Guardian Weekly (which Joan kindly gives me, but I have incredible difficulty keeping up, because they're just too good to skip-read), it was in relation to renewed rocket attacks against Israel:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"A Hamas official, Ahmed Yousef, told the German DPA press agency the group welcomed the attacks, but he did not believe it was behind them."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Eh, yes, well there I see not one, but &lt;b&gt;two &lt;/b&gt;enormous reasons that these people are not ready for statehood...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3634241618085142256?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3634241618085142256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3634241618085142256' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3634241618085142256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3634241618085142256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/ready-for-statehood-la-hauteur.html' title='Ready for statehood? ... A la hauteur ?'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-2167584827261307219</id><published>2011-11-19T11:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-19T11:27:30.448+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Autumn walk ... Promenade d'automne</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2purDZVhhJk/TseEj4rXodI/AAAAAAAAEcU/1WFMA2pbbLY/s1600/DSC05957.JPG"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2purDZVhhJk/TseEj4rXodI/AAAAAAAAEcU/1WFMA2pbbLY/s400/DSC05957.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uACs9NBD2ns/TseEkB4gZiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/62Igv2_RtkM/s1600/DSC05958.JPG"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uACs9NBD2ns/TseEkB4gZiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/62Igv2_RtkM/s400/DSC05958.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style='clear:both; text-align:NONE'&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-2167584827261307219?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/2167584827261307219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=2167584827261307219' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2167584827261307219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2167584827261307219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/autumn-walk-promenade-dautomne.html' title='Autumn walk ... Promenade d&apos;automne'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2purDZVhhJk/TseEj4rXodI/AAAAAAAAEcU/1WFMA2pbbLY/s72-c/DSC05957.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-605352822670052120</id><published>2011-11-18T22:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-18T22:07:27.768+01:00</updated><title type='text'>CodeKen photos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SIjmzRl1DKw/TsbGvjeuqrI/AAAAAAAAEa8/HeUqry44ayw/s1600/DSC05962.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SIjmzRl1DKw/TsbGvjeuqrI/AAAAAAAAEa8/HeUqry44ayw/s400/DSC05962.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; La vue depuis l'avion au départ de Genève était impressionant - d'un côté une mer de brouillard (par-dessus le lac), de l'autre, rien.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; View from the plane flying out of Geneva: the whole of the lake area was covered in a sea of cloud, and on the other side of the Jura, nothing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dnCeSkmkp1o/TsbGv_43FFI/AAAAAAAAEbM/LKXowZ06gWA/s1600/DSC05972.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dnCeSkmkp1o/TsbGv_43FFI/AAAAAAAAEbM/LKXowZ06gWA/s400/DSC05972.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; J'ai pris cette photo pour montrer aux gens qui me demande si ça ne me manque pas d'habiter en Angleterre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Took this photo to show to people who ask: "Don't you miss living in the UK?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qbxCUuX7aWE/TsbGwt0KzxI/AAAAAAAAEbU/IUHe1JPRgUE/s1600/DSC05975.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qbxCUuX7aWE/TsbGwt0KzxI/AAAAAAAAEbU/IUHe1JPRgUE/s400/DSC05975.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Si vous en reconnaissez aucun, je ne vous tiens par rigueur. J'ai lu des livres par deux des quatre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Spectacular line-up. If you don't recognise anybody on here, I wouldn't blame you. I've got books by two of them...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CYyWw9VVQHw/TsbGwo-hxCI/AAAAAAAAEbg/_nv3bm4tzyA/s1600/DSC05980.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CYyWw9VVQHw/TsbGwo-hxCI/AAAAAAAAEbg/_nv3bm4tzyA/s400/DSC05980.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Après avoir &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/end-of-day-1-jour-1.html"&gt;quitté le pub&lt;/a&gt;, j'ai fait un peu de 'tourisme', voilà un gratte-ciel qui se perd dans le nuages.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; A little bit of 'sightseeing' after&lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/end-of-day-1-jour-1.html"&gt; I abandoned the pub crawl&lt;/a&gt;. I believe this is 'The Shard', but I'm not sure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-am5XkEQL5_c/TsbGxMneBbI/AAAAAAAAEbw/g2-ffEkqDAE/s1600/DSC05982.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-am5XkEQL5_c/TsbGxMneBbI/AAAAAAAAEbw/g2-ffEkqDAE/s400/DSC05982.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Vous reconnaissez ce pont, j'imagine. Son nom?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; I &lt;i&gt;am&lt;/i&gt; sure about what this. I guess you probably are too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ngd2aXSrBQg/TsbGx6_4eKI/AAAAAAAAEb4/C2QV9sh6esM/s1600/DSC05994.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ngd2aXSrBQg/TsbGx6_4eKI/AAAAAAAAEb4/C2QV9sh6esM/s400/DSC05994.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Par contre, celui-ci vous connaissez peut-être pas. Ca s'appelle le "O2".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; This is the 02, apparently (in the background). Trying clicking and check out the larger photo for an extra detail.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QAkry8Gx270/TsbGx6Ghy5I/AAAAAAAAEcA/4cTbBswbCks/s1600/DSC05993.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QAkry8Gx270/TsbGx6Ghy5I/AAAAAAAAEcA/4cTbBswbCks/s400/DSC05993.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Voilà la vue de Canaray Wharf, depuis le centre de conférence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; This is the view of Canary Wharf, from the conference venue.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-605352822670052120?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/605352822670052120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=605352822670052120' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/605352822670052120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/605352822670052120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/codeken-photos.html' title='CodeKen photos'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SIjmzRl1DKw/TsbGvjeuqrI/AAAAAAAAEa8/HeUqry44ayw/s72-c/DSC05962.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5766368589039212880</id><published>2011-11-18T13:50:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-18T13:50:00.237+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Surprise</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5wkIWnbslx4/TrcPRsIpZTI/AAAAAAAAEXI/KQZUN_OCaI0/s1600/DSC05897.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5wkIWnbslx4/TrcPRsIpZTI/AAAAAAAAEXI/KQZUN_OCaI0/s400/DSC05897.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Il y a deux semaines, on a eu une visite 'surprise', que quelques uns reconnaîtront peut-être. Ce n'était pas une surprise dans le sens que c'était pas annoncé. Mais c'était la première fois qu'il remettait les pieds chez nous depuis 8 ans*.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Two weekends back we had a 'surprise' visitor, who some of you may recognise. It wasn't a surprise, in the sense that it was announced, but it was 8 years since the last time he was in our house*.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JO78vuTCQ-E/TrcPRX_jmaI/AAAAAAAAEW4/isftqOIpXHk/s1600/DSC05896.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JO78vuTCQ-E/TrcPRX_jmaI/AAAAAAAAEW4/isftqOIpXHk/s400/DSC05896.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; On a profité du temps magnifique pour faire le 'Tour du Haut Lac'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; We made the most of beautiful weather to go for a 'Tour du Haut Lac' with him and his fiançée.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jWDXwIwYKl4/TrcPSWR4mhI/AAAAAAAAEXQ/cifI5oq2FXs/s1600/DSC05899.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jWDXwIwYKl4/TrcPSWR4mhI/AAAAAAAAEXQ/cifI5oq2FXs/s400/DSC05899.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Les couleurs d'automne sont magnifique, et je bénis les aïeux qui ont eu le bon sens de planter beaucoup de types d'arbres différents.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The colours at this time of year blow me away, and I am immensely grateful to the people who had the foresite to plant more than one kind of tree around here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PumQEomYW2c/TrcPSYrbRqI/AAAAAAAAEXY/5fUh905-UHQ/s1600/DSC05900.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PumQEomYW2c/TrcPSYrbRqI/AAAAAAAAEXY/5fUh905-UHQ/s400/DSC05900.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; La lumière d'automne est super aussi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The light isn't too bad in autumn either!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OMhX7sYwHCM/TrcPSi5reDI/AAAAAAAAEXo/80Nen4tTkRY/s1600/DSC05902.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OMhX7sYwHCM/TrcPSi5reDI/AAAAAAAAEXo/80Nen4tTkRY/s400/DSC05902.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Voilà l'Ile de Peilz. Il y a un bateau de dragage (je crois) sur la gauche, que j'ai zappé à l'aide de l'informatique. Il y a un photographe célèbre (à l'échelle Suisse, et dont j'oublies le nom) qui en a fait sa spécialité. &lt;a href="http://images.google.com/search?q=ile+de+peilz"&gt;Voilà &lt;/a&gt;quelques clichés.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(*C'est le plus jeune oncle de Kalia, si jamais vous vous rappeliez pas)&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; This is the "Ile de Peilz", there is an unsightly dredger to the left, which I Photoshopped out... There's a famous (for here) photographer who's made it his speciality. Check a few of &lt;a href="http://images.google.com/search?q=ile+de+peilz"&gt;these &lt;/a&gt;out, most of them are probably by him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(*It's Kalia's youngest uncle, in case you didn't recognise him)&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5766368589039212880?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5766368589039212880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5766368589039212880' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5766368589039212880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5766368589039212880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/surprise.html' title='Surprise'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5wkIWnbslx4/TrcPRsIpZTI/AAAAAAAAEXI/KQZUN_OCaI0/s72-c/DSC05897.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5931770045963912547</id><published>2011-11-17T10:45:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-17T10:45:00.218+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Big sister ... Grande soeur</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FhQgiJfg0nU/TrcOIm02QsI/AAAAAAAAEWg/4ANwN0Cg2tk/s1600/DSC05904.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FhQgiJfg0nU/TrcOIm02QsI/AAAAAAAAEWg/4ANwN0Cg2tk/s400/DSC05904.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SyQWYs2Uxqw/TrcOI00skLI/AAAAAAAAEWo/IGSm0ow0AJ4/s1600/DSC05882.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SyQWYs2Uxqw/TrcOI00skLI/AAAAAAAAEWo/IGSm0ow0AJ4/s400/DSC05882.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5931770045963912547?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5931770045963912547/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5931770045963912547' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5931770045963912547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5931770045963912547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/big-sister-grande-soeur.html' title='Big sister ... Grande soeur'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FhQgiJfg0nU/TrcOIm02QsI/AAAAAAAAEWg/4ANwN0Cg2tk/s72-c/DSC05904.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5020366080578153631</id><published>2011-11-16T06:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-16T06:44:53.221+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Things about the UK … Un anglais visite l’Angleterre</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Le voyage de retour s’est bien passé. J’ai dû partir avant la fin pour ne pas rater l’avion. Mais j’ai eu droit à mon ‘butin’ (un t-shirt de la conférence). Je crois que j’y retournerais assez volontiers, c’était vraiment à taille humaine, et je peux maintenant mettre des visages sur des noms virtuels. Le vol avec Swiss depuis London City coûte nettement plus cher qu’avec EasyJet, mais le confort de ne pas perdre une heure de plus en transport publique pour accéder à l’aéroport (et les bons sandwiches et chocolat suisse !) font un petit peu la différence. En sortant de l’aéroport à Genève, et en courant un peu, j’ai pu monter dans le train &lt;i&gt;juste &lt;/i&gt;avant que les portes se ferment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;//Mine de rien, ça fait quand même 12 ans que je suis parti de l’Angleterre. Ça passe vite, mais il y a des choses qui ont changé (il me semble), et qui me frappent :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Les voitures de flic sont super voyants (bon, c’est le but, mais on dirait presque des jouets)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Des trains qui parlent, des ascenseurs qui parlent. J’ai qu’une seul envie à chaque fois, c’est de répondre « ta g… ! »&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Des panneaux, affiches, avertissements partout : « fais-pas ci, fais-pas ça, viens ici, mets-toi là », sauf que là c’est moins des interdictions que des mises en garde pour la sécurité. C’est le célèbre ‘Health and Safety’&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Les caméras de surveillance. J’ai horreur des caméras de surveillance. Je dis pas pour des magasins, mais dehors, dans la rue, ça m’offusque complétement. Et y’en a &lt;i&gt;partout&lt;/i&gt;, dans les moindre ruelles Big Brother vous regarde. Et tout ça pour des prunes, car ça ne prévient pas le crime, ça permet juste de montrer des images à la télé après les faits. Enfin…&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puis j’ai eu ma revanche sur la carte Oyster : ce matin en voulant remettre des crédits dessus, je me suis planté et j’ai appuyé sur le bouton ‘retour de pièces’, et j’ai touché le jackpot ! J’ai eu environ £8 en retour…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The return trip went well. I had to leave before the end to catch the plane, but I did get my ‘swag’ (a CodeKen  t-shirt). I think I’d do it again, if they organise another one, it was just the right size, and I can now put faces to some virtual names. The flight with Swiss from London City was a bit more expensive than with EasyJet from Gatwick, but I think it was worth it to avoid the extra hour (or more) of public transport. And the fresh sandwiches and Swiss chocolate on board help too! I was also able to choose myself a place quite near the front of the plane, and on leaving, with a quick last sprint, I managed to squeeze onto the train &lt;i&gt;just &lt;/i&gt;before the doors shut and it left. So zero latency on that bit…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;//It’s more than 12 years now since I ‘emigrated’. Time flies, but there are some things that seem to have changed (to me), in any case, things which catch my attention:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Police cars are really… loud and flashy (I guess that’s the point, but they almost look like toys)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Talking trains, talking lifts (“the door is closing, the door is closing”). Just makes me want to say “WILL YOU SHUT UP?!”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Warnings, notices, posters, stickers &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;: “be careful, beware, watch out, danger”. Signs to prevent morons from hurting themselves, and most of all, to prevent them suing anyone. Health and Safety…&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;CCTV cameras everywhere. I hate security cameras. I kind of accept them in shops, train stations, stuff like that. But outside, in main roads, side roads, back roads, I think it’s total overkill. Wherever you go, Big Brother is watching you &lt;i&gt;and he doesn’t care&lt;/i&gt;. Security cameras don’t stop you getting mugged; they just give the TV news something to show while they’re reporting your mugging.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I did get my own back on the Oyster card! I went to top it up, realised I’d put the wrong money in and hit the ‘cancel’ button… and hit the jackpot! About £8 spilled out. I’ve been checking all the top-up kiosks since then!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5020366080578153631?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5020366080578153631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5020366080578153631' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5020366080578153631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5020366080578153631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/things-about-uk-un-anglais-visite.html' title='Things about the UK … Un anglais visite l’Angleterre'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7387008528005813507</id><published>2011-11-15T09:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T09:32:34.746+01:00</updated><title type='text'>End of day 1 … Jour 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Quelques séances intéressantes l’après-midi, y compris une ‘table ronde’ improvisée (parce que le dernier présentateur ne s’est pas présenté&amp;nbsp; - j’imagine que son avion a été annulé à cause du brouillard). A 17h j’ai profité du wifi gratuit pour faire un petit Skype avec la famille, puis suis allé profiter des boissons et ‘réseautage’ (tout compris dans le budget de la conférence). Ensuite on m’a invité à me joindre à un ‘pub crawl’ entre développeurs, mais ça n’a pas duré longtemps pour moi. Le pub puait la javel (je déteste l’odeur de la javel), alors ça m’a coupé l’envie de boire. Puis il n’y avait pas la place pour s’asseoir, et trop de bruit pour s’entendre confortablement. J’suis trop vieux pour ces conneries (remarque, j’ai &lt;i&gt;toujours&lt;/i&gt; été trop vieux&amp;nbsp;!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alors je me suis excusé et suis parti pour voir si j’arriverais à rejoindre l’hôtel à pied – ou du moins faire une partie du chemin à pied. Pour finir j’ai réussir à faire la distance de deux arrêts de metro (London Bridge à Canada Water), suivant la Thames. Même pour une petite promenade comme ça (environ une heure) il y avait des contrastes impressionnants&amp;nbsp;: entre les gratte-ciels imposants autour de la gare London Bride, l’architecture extravagante de certains immeubles, London Bridge, des lotissements ‘exclusifs’, des restaurants haut-de-gamme, des ruelles pavées, des parcs sombres. J’ai essayé de prendre quelques photos, mais pas évident dans le noir (pour être honnête, il a fait noir toute la journée&amp;nbsp;!) J’ai pris quelques photos du brouillard pour montrer à ce qui me demande si ça ne me manque pas de vivre en Angleterre&amp;nbsp;! J’ai pris un lecteur de carte avec, mais je n’arrive pas à le faire marcher, donc malheureusement les photos seront pour plus tard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dernier anecdote&amp;nbsp;: j’étais tout fier d’avoir fait mes recherches sur la fameuse ‘Oyster card’ qui permet de voyager moins cher. Mais voilà que j’ai oublié de ‘pointer’ à la sortie du train le matin, et je me suis fait ponctionner £6.50.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notez aussi que je mets ce billet sur le blog ‘demain matin’, car j’ai pas envie de payer encore £12 pour l’accès internet dans l’hôtel – oui, ça ne vaut que pour 24h&amp;nbsp;! A quand le wifi dans les droits de l’homme&amp;nbsp;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Couple of interesting talks in the afternoon, including an impromtu ‘round table’ (because the last speaker didn’t turn up – I suspect because of his plane being cancelled/delayed because of the fog). At 5pm I made the most of the free wifi to Skype back to base, then went to profit from the ‘drinks and networking’ (all in the price!). Managed to get myself roped into a "developer’s pub crawl", but that was pretty abortive for me. The pub smelled very strongly of bleach (which I hate), so that completely put me off drinking anything, and it was standing room early and bellowing to be heard. I’m too old for that stuff (and was 20 years ago…)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I excused myself and headed out to see if I could walk back to the hotel – or at least part of the way. In the end I managed two station’s worth (London Bridge to Canada Water), walking along the Thames Path. Even for that short(ish) walk, there were some amazing contrasts – from the soaring (and half-built) skyscrapers around London Bridge station, the eye-catching (sometimes gaudy) &amp;nbsp;architecture along the water front, London Bridge itself, some swanky walled-garden-type estates (with ‘anti-climb paint’ on the railings!) posh restaurants, cobbled streets, murky parks. I tried to take some photos, but I expect they won’t come out great in the dark (to be honest, it’s been dark all day!) I took some photos to show the people who ask me “don’t you miss living in the UK?” I did actually bring a card reader, but I can’t get it to work, so I’m afraid the photos will have to be posted retroactively when I get back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One funny anecdote from yesterday: I wanted to ask for information for getting around with an ‘Oyster card’, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember how to pronounce ‘Quay’. Was it ‘kee’, ‘kay’, or ‘kway’? (I was pretty sure it wasn’t the last of the three, and ‘kay’ sounds too much like the French pronunciation, so I worked it out by elimination, but I wasn’t &lt;i&gt;certain&lt;/i&gt;. The &lt;i&gt;bad&lt;/i&gt; experience of the day was forgetting to ‘badge out’ this morning, and being stung for £6.50 for one trip…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Note that I’m posting this ‘tomorrow morning’ because I don’t want to pay another £12 for wifi access in the hotel – yes, unbelievably it only lasts 24 hours. When are they going to add wifi to the list of fundamental humans rights?!).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7387008528005813507?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7387008528005813507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7387008528005813507' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7387008528005813507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7387008528005813507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/end-of-day-1-jour-1.html' title='End of day 1 … Jour 1'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5320859295594934933</id><published>2011-11-14T12:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T12:33:47.898+01:00</updated><title type='text'>CodeKen</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Alors me voilà. Le centre de conférence est très joliment aménagé, il y a du café, biscuits, fruits, tout ce qu'il faut (wifi surtout!). La première séance avec Jon Skeet (une célébrité dans le petit monde des développeurs) est terminé. Je suis content d'avoir pu répondre à une question. J'ai aussi rencontré enfin deux personnes que je ne 'connaissais' que virtuellement (un français et un allemand!).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; So here I am. The conference venue is very swish, and coffee, croissants, biscuits, fruits laid on. And wifi (the most important!). The first session was with Jon Skeet (a minor celebrity in the little world of programming). I'm also happy to have finally met two people who I only knew virtually (one French, the other German!).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5320859295594934933?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5320859295594934933/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5320859295594934933' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5320859295594934933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5320859295594934933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/codeken.html' title='CodeKen'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8913895969243809476</id><published>2011-11-13T23:11:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T23:11:04.784+01:00</updated><title type='text'>LCY</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; London City Airport est incroyable. Enfin, pas l'aéroport en lui-même, mais l'atterrissage.&lt;br /&gt;Voler bas par dessus le Thames, les monuments célèbres (que je ne reconnais pas tous), on a l'impression qu'on va voler &lt;i&gt;entre &lt;/i&gt;les bâtiments (exemple sur&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDNd1o4B9qc"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je me réjouis presque du départ, pour voir comment c'est de jour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et j'ai pu &lt;i&gt;marcher&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;depuis l'aéroport jusaqu'à l'hôtel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et l'hôtel m'a fait payer £12 pour pouvoir faire du Skype avec mes filles!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;London City Airport is amazing. Or rather, not the airport itself, but landing there is.&lt;br /&gt;Flying low over the Thames, famous landmarks (not that I recognise that many of them), you feel like you're close to flying &lt;i&gt;in between &lt;/i&gt;them (found this example on &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDNd1o4B9qc"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm quite looking forward to flying out, to see what it's like in daylight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I &lt;i&gt;walked&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;from the airport to the hotel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the hotel made me pay £12 for wifi so I could Skype with my delicious daughters!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8913895969243809476?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8913895969243809476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8913895969243809476' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8913895969243809476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8913895969243809476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/lcy.html' title='LCY'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-477591437370918843</id><published>2011-11-13T15:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T15:53:49.121+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Leaving ... Sur le départ</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Me voilà à l'aéroport encore une fois (GVA), pour la troisième fois depuis début octobre.&lt;br /&gt;Cette fois-ci je suis seul, et je vais &lt;a href="http://london2011.codeken.com/"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;. J'atterris à LCY - la première fois pour moi. Ce sera aussi la première fois que je prends le &lt;a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/modalpages/2632.aspx"&gt;DLR&lt;/a&gt;. En fait, je crois bien que je ne suis plus retourné à Londres depuis '98.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une autre première pour moi: je voyage avec un petit ordinateur (pas le mien). Un petit 'netbook' qui ressemble passablement à un que j'ai résisté à la tentation d'acheter il n'y a pas si longtemps (je suis en train de mijoter un billet pour ce blog sur les besoins/désirs/technologie et luxe). Mais voilà le problème: aller à une conférence de programmeurs sans PC c'est comme y aller tout nu (sauf que tout nu je ne suis pas sûr que ça se remarquerait!). Alors j'ai mendié/emprunté à mon ami Nico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et me voilà en train de l'utiliser pour la seule chose raisonnable qui aurait justifier un achat: pour rédiger mon blog quand l'inspiration me prend (ou quand je m'ennuie trop pour faire autre chose: l'autre option ici serait d'écrire des cartes de Noël!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A la base je me suis inscrit pour les &lt;a href="http://stackoverflow.com/"&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;DevDays, mais ils ont pris peur et l'ont annulé, me laissant avec un billet d'avion et une réservation d'hôtel sur les bras (non remboursables). Heureusement quelques personnes intrépides se sont lancé à organiser un évènement similaire, les mêmes jours, et un peu près au même endroit. Alors me voilà. Je n'ai jamais assisté à un 'petit' truc comme ceci (80 personnes), alors c'est un peu effrayant - ce sera des vrais callures là bas, je crois, ceux qui ne font que coder nuit et jour. Mais mon but c'est simplement d'apprendre des nouveaux trucs, de me rèinspirer pour l'informatique, et de rencontrer d'autres programmeurs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Here I am at the airport (GVA), third time running since October.&lt;br /&gt;This time I'm going &lt;a href="http://london2011.codeken.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Landing at LCY, which will be a first for me.&lt;br /&gt;Taking the DLR will be a first for me as well. I haven't actually been to London proper since '98, I think...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another first, I've got a computer with me (not mine). A netbook computer very similar to one I resisted the temptation to buy a few weeks ago, as it happens (I'm currently ruminating a post about wants/needs/technology and luxury). The thing is, going to a programmer's conference without a computer is pretty much like going naked (except geeks probably wouldn't notice if I was naked!). So I begged/borrowed one off my good friend Nico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here I am using it for the only thing that I could reasonably justify having one for - writing my blog when the inspiration comes (or when I'm too bored to do anything else: the current other option is writing Christmas cards!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I originally signed up for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://stackoverflow.com/"&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;DevDays, but they got cold feet and pulled out; leaving me with a 'useless' (and non-refundable) flight and hotel booking. Fortunately, some intrepid people put together a similar conference on the same days and fairly near the original location. So here we go. I've never been to a 'small' do like this before (80 people), so it's a bit nerve wracking - we're talking über-geeks here - but my main aim is to learn some new stuff and meet some other programmers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-477591437370918843?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/477591437370918843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=477591437370918843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/477591437370918843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/477591437370918843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/leaving-sur-le-depart.html' title='Leaving ... Sur le départ'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8518941827283969966</id><published>2011-11-12T19:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T19:39:00.152+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Walk ... Promenade</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F8XB2BT0jps/TrcMwvLUrAI/AAAAAAAAEUE/9F20z6DFZy4/s1600/DSC05850.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F8XB2BT0jps/TrcMwvLUrAI/AAAAAAAAEUE/9F20z6DFZy4/s400/DSC05850.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Quelques semaines en arrière, on s'est fait une petite ballade à deux avec Rebecca. Avec petite motivation/récompense à l'appui.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; A few weeks back, we had a nice little Rebecca &amp;amp; Daddy walk together. With suitable reward/motivational booster on the way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QWZALGY0m_Q/TrcMxvebGuI/AAAAAAAAEUc/MmMLtMxYJ7E/s1600/DSC05858.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QWZALGY0m_Q/TrcMxvebGuI/AAAAAAAAEUc/MmMLtMxYJ7E/s400/DSC05858.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Un des défis du parent qui veut aérer ses enfants c'est les journées qui se raccourcissent. Il faut se motiver et s'habiller pour sortir aussi dans le noir/sombre. Il y a des jolis couchers de soleil à déguster.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; One of the challenges of getting your kids outside is shorter and colder days. You just have to motivate yourself, and dress to suit. There are some lovely sunsets to savour.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1L98-MqXpb4/TrcMw5XffdI/AAAAAAAAEUU/mBJqu3bpO9U/s1600/DSC05865.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1L98-MqXpb4/TrcMw5XffdI/AAAAAAAAEUU/mBJqu3bpO9U/s400/DSC05865.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Ici vous pouvez constater la beauté de notre fille, et le gagnant de la dernière lutte entre moi-même et l'horizon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Here&amp;nbsp; you can see our beautiful daughter, and the results of my latest battle with horizontality.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8518941827283969966?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8518941827283969966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8518941827283969966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8518941827283969966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8518941827283969966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk-promenade.html' title='Walk ... Promenade'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F8XB2BT0jps/TrcMwvLUrAI/AAAAAAAAEUE/9F20z6DFZy4/s72-c/DSC05850.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8264570868833524252</id><published>2011-11-12T08:42:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T08:42:00.182+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Two films ... Deux films</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Dernièrement on a vu deux films très différents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le premier - Au sud des nuages, je recommande à fond, c'est exactement mon style de film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le deuxième - Wild Wild West - est remarquable par le fait que je ne l'ai même pas terminé. Je suis assez difficile dans le choix des films, mais en général, une fois que j'ai commencé, je vais jusqu'au bout. Mais ce film-là était tellement mauvais, c'était gênant. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; I watched two very different films this week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Au sud des nuages" (South of the clouds) is exactly my type of film - I thoroughly recommend it, though I'm not sure that you'll find it in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second - Wild Wild West - was so bad that I didn't even both to watch it to the end. It was so bad it was almost embarrassing, I cringed for the actors!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8264570868833524252?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8264570868833524252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8264570868833524252' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8264570868833524252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8264570868833524252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/two-films-deux-films.html' title='Two films ... Deux films'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3343861604446816285</id><published>2011-11-11T19:44:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T19:44:00.251+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Allen key ... Clef Allen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XsMAN05JpHs/TrcN5LiCX4I/AAAAAAAAEWU/phfskSFrDKo/s1600/DSC05889.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XsMAN05JpHs/TrcN5LiCX4I/AAAAAAAAEWU/phfskSFrDKo/s400/DSC05889.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Un autre jour, une autre fille, un autre meuble. Maintenant notre cuisine a un banc blanc, pour complémenter les murs rouges.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Another day, another girl, another piece of furniture. Our kitchen now has a white bench, to set off the red(ish) walls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and Happy Birthday to (one of ) you...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3343861604446816285?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3343861604446816285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3343861604446816285' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3343861604446816285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3343861604446816285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/allen-key-clef-allen.html' title='Allen key ... Clef Allen'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XsMAN05JpHs/TrcN5LiCX4I/AAAAAAAAEWU/phfskSFrDKo/s72-c/DSC05889.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-558810522355496378</id><published>2011-11-10T08:41:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-10T08:41:00.180+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Chopsticks ... Baguettes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jdDvc4Fw3DM/TrcNKdL-bcI/AAAAAAAAEU0/D4lQuuGiLKI/s1600/DSC05876.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jdDvc4Fw3DM/TrcNKdL-bcI/AAAAAAAAEU0/D4lQuuGiLKI/s400/DSC05876.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sfU7Vwgiwoo/TrcNKjJ-62I/AAAAAAAAEVA/5DSuDXqQlMk/s1600/DSC05877.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sfU7Vwgiwoo/TrcNKjJ-62I/AAAAAAAAEVA/5DSuDXqQlMk/s400/DSC05877.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; J'ai été inspiré par un steak de cheval à m'essayer à un plat style chinois. Les filles se sont bien amusés à essayer de manger avec des baguettes. Ca avait aussi l'avantage d'en déconcentrer une des ses compliments habituels ("Beurk?! C'est quoi ça? Il y a quoi dedans?").&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; I was inspired to whip up a little Chinese-style something in our under-used wok (sorry D&amp;amp;L!), the girls had a fun time trying to get some of it in their mouths (which also helpfully distracted some of them from her "Ew! What's that?" routine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-558810522355496378?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/558810522355496378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=558810522355496378' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/558810522355496378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/558810522355496378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/chopsticks-baguettes.html' title='Chopsticks ... Baguettes'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jdDvc4Fw3DM/TrcNKdL-bcI/AAAAAAAAEU0/D4lQuuGiLKI/s72-c/DSC05876.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-4453408063438096440</id><published>2011-11-09T18:42:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T09:12:14.023+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unschool'/><title type='text'>First lesson ... Première leçon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ya7Lp16amQ8/TrcNVQVeMoI/AAAAAAAAEVM/Y3OwdvZzYAo/s1600/DSC05878.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ya7Lp16amQ8/TrcNVQVeMoI/AAAAAAAAEVM/Y3OwdvZzYAo/s400/DSC05878.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Pour notre premier cours à la maison (encore pendant les 'vacances' scolaires), on a fait du montage de meubles, en apprenant l'utilisation, et les noms des outils (dans les deux langues, bien sûr!). Comme pour tout enseignement, j'ai aussi appris des choses: notamment qu'une clef Allen se nomme aussi clef Imbus en Suisse, et que clé et clef sont interchangeables.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; My first home-school 'lesson' was assembling furniture. Reading the instructions, using the tools, and learning their names (in both languages)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-quVU2JJz-PQ/TrcNVvoYlKI/AAAAAAAAEVc/61xiPW87OBY/s1600/DSC05879.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-quVU2JJz-PQ/TrcNVvoYlKI/AAAAAAAAEVc/61xiPW87OBY/s400/DSC05879.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Pour cette fois, Rebecca s'est contenté de nous aider avec les instructions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; For this time, Rebecca just helped us with the instructions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-4453408063438096440?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/4453408063438096440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=4453408063438096440' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4453408063438096440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4453408063438096440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/first-lesson-premier-lecon.html' title='First lesson ... Première leçon'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ya7Lp16amQ8/TrcNVQVeMoI/AAAAAAAAEVM/Y3OwdvZzYAo/s72-c/DSC05878.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5654691109946417215</id><published>2011-11-09T12:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T12:45:23.823+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Do you like cats? You may be ill!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; &lt;b&gt;Common brain parasite 'can affect host's actions'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One-in-five chance &lt;i&gt;your &lt;/i&gt;mind is being manipulated&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/07/brain_manipulating_parasite/"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5654691109946417215?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5654691109946417215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5654691109946417215' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5654691109946417215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5654691109946417215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/do-you-like-cats-you-may-be-ill.html' title='Do you like cats? You may be ill!'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7201104378695429632</id><published>2011-11-08T13:41:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-08T13:41:00.114+01:00</updated><title type='text'>New desk ... Rebecca a son bureau</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mq2yI99xvTw/TrcNAiMCR9I/AAAAAAAAEUo/GpujQo3gzwI/s1600/DSC05873.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mq2yI99xvTw/TrcNAiMCR9I/AAAAAAAAEUo/GpujQo3gzwI/s400/DSC05873.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Il n'y a pas que la cuisine qui subit des changements. La chambre des filles fait un petit peu peau neuve aussi, avec un bureau rien que pour Rebecca toute seule !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evidemment, comme tous les parents le savent, les petits passent la plupart du temps là où sont les parents, m'enfin, c'est un bon début !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; It's not just the kitchen undergoing changes. The girls bedroom has had a slight makeover, and some extra furniture - most importantly a new desk for Rebecca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She's very proud of it, but as all parents know, kids that age will spend most of their time wherever the parents are!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7201104378695429632?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7201104378695429632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7201104378695429632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7201104378695429632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7201104378695429632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-desk-rebecca-son-bureau.html' title='New desk ... Rebecca a son bureau'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mq2yI99xvTw/TrcNAiMCR9I/AAAAAAAAEUo/GpujQo3gzwI/s72-c/DSC05873.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3564771062189493714</id><published>2011-11-07T12:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-07T12:42:00.995+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kitchen ... Cuisine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z7b0uxXcAEo/TrcNq33EXDI/AAAAAAAAEVk/g-ejunc0gcY/s1600/DSC05886.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z7b0uxXcAEo/TrcNq33EXDI/AAAAAAAAEVk/g-ejunc0gcY/s400/DSC05886.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Sept articles de suite sans photos sur ce blog ! C'est un record, je crois, que je compte remédier tout de suite maintenant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comme j'ai mentionné il y a quelque temps, la cuisine est en cours de mutation. Etant donnée que la mutation est faite maison, ça prend... un certain temps ! Mais voilà l'état de lard du moment. Du Bordeaux (RAL 3003) sur deux couches de fond donne un joli effet 'terracotta'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Seven posts in a row without photos! This is surely a (bad) record for this blog. I will correct my ways. Starting now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I hinted &lt;a href="http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/haircut-coiffure.html"&gt;a while back&lt;/a&gt;, the kitchen is undergoing a (DIY) makeover. Here are a few shots of the current state of affairs. Not too bad, all things considered. One coat of Bordeaux (RAL 3003) on top of two coats of white primer give a pleasing kind of terracotta look.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d_yf5XV-5MQ/TrcNrAfOlWI/AAAAAAAAEVs/P_WEEFGTwjk/s1600/DSC05888.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d_yf5XV-5MQ/TrcNrAfOlWI/AAAAAAAAEVs/P_WEEFGTwjk/s400/DSC05888.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3564771062189493714?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3564771062189493714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3564771062189493714' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3564771062189493714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3564771062189493714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/kitchen-cuisine.html' title='Kitchen ... Cuisine'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z7b0uxXcAEo/TrcNq33EXDI/AAAAAAAAEVk/g-ejunc0gcY/s72-c/DSC05886.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7740581056892111697</id><published>2011-11-03T08:22:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T08:22:00.125+01:00</updated><title type='text'>God as antimatter? ... Dieu comme antimatière ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimati%C3%A8re"&gt;Les travaux sur l'antimatière consistent en grande partie à expliquer  pourquoi cette rareté alors que nécessairement, selon la théorie du Big Bang, la matière et l'antimatière auraient été présentes en quantités égales&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une songerie des méandres philosopho-scientifiques de mon cerveau : l'autre jour je me suis demandé si Dieu ne serait pas la source de l'antimatière. Si c'est lui qui 'tient toutes choses ensemble', est-ce que ça ne pourrait pas être lui qui empêche l'univers d'imploser ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dieu serait le yin du yang de l'univers. L'autre moitié de l'équation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Juste une idée.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est intéressant aussi de se demander si Dieu va nécessairement toujours rester inaccessible à la science, ou s'il est "découvrable". Car, pour finir, le 'surnaturel' n'est souvent que "ce qu'on n'a pas encore réussi à expliquer".&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; &lt;a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is apparently composed almost entirely of matter." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter"&gt;There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is apparently composed almost entirely of matter.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is entirely unfounded philo-scientific musing, but I was wondering the other day whether God might be where all the antimatter is. If he 'holds all things together', might it not be him who is stopping the universe from imploding?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God would be the yin to the universe's yang. The 'other half of the equation'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another interesting question is whether God must always remain inaccessible to science, of if he is potentially "discoverable". Because often, the 'supernatural' is just what we haven't yet managed to explain. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7740581056892111697?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7740581056892111697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7740581056892111697' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7740581056892111697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7740581056892111697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/god-as-antimatter-dieu-comme.html' title='God as antimatter? ... Dieu comme antimatière ?'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-907441099293768923</id><published>2011-11-02T19:11:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T09:12:14.023+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unschool'/><title type='text'>Teach your own ... Le grand saut</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Kalia n'a pas été à l'école lundi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ni mardi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et ni aujourd'hui.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pendant les relâches, on s'est enfin décidé à faire l'école à domicile. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evidemment, vous allez me demander "pourquoi tu l'enlèves de l'école?". Mais il faut tourner la question dans l'autres sens: "Pourquoi est-ce qu'on l'a envoyé à l'école?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La responsabilité de l'éducation ET de l'instruction des enfants incombe aux parents. Il faut avoir une bonne raison pour déléguer à quelqu'un d'autre. Et ben moi, des raisons, j'en avais plus tant que ça.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alors voilà, on a vu le directeur pendant les vacances, qui nous a très bien reçu, et on a aussi vu la maîtresse. Tout deux nous ont proposé de l'aide, de fournir du matériel en cas de besoin, des conseils si on en a besoin. C'est légèrement miraculeux, par rapport à la réaction qu'on aurait pu attendre...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On embarque donc pour une aventure de taille. Il faut savoir que je m'intéresse au 'homeschooling' (voire le '&lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling"&gt;unschooling&lt;/a&gt;') depuis bien avant la naissance des filles, même avant le mariage. J'aimerais bien aller dans le sens de &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caldwell_Holt"&gt;John Holt&lt;/a&gt; (j'ai trouvé &lt;a href="http://www.editions-instant-present.com/blog/index.php/tous-nos-livres/les-apprentissages-autonomes/"&gt;qu'un livre traduit&lt;/a&gt; en français), mais c'est un sacré transformation de mentalité. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Kalia didn't go to school on Monday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or Tuesday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor today, for that matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During half-term, we finally made up our minds to homeschool. The immediate question which comes to mind is probably: "Why are you taking her out of school?" But in fact, it's the other way round: "Why did we send her in the first place?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Children's education is the responsibility of their parents, so to my mind, the onus is on justifying why you'd choose to delegate that responsibility. I don't mean there aren't valid reasons to do so, but we ran out of reasons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we went to see the headmaster last week, who was incredibly open and helpful. We also arranged to see the teacher so that we could break the news to her ourselves, in (what we hoped was) an appropriate and sensitive way. Both of them offered help, copies of useful material, their advice if ever we needed it. Mildly miraculous compared to what we could have expected (and what I feared).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, we've pushed our little coracle out into the ocean, who knows where we'll end up! I've been interested in homeschooling (and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling"&gt;unschooling&lt;/a&gt;) for a long time - way before I had kids, or was even married. I'm very interested by the ideas of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holt_%28educator%29"&gt;John Holt &lt;/a&gt;(the title of this post is an allusion to &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Own-John-Homeschooling/dp/0738206946"&gt;one of his books&lt;/a&gt;), but it's pretty hard to change our "learning is the product of teaching" mentality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(M. now you know what we were up to on Thursday. So sorry we missed you, I think that our 2 K's would get on really well) &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-907441099293768923?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/907441099293768923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=907441099293768923' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/907441099293768923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/907441099293768923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/teach-your-own-le-grand-saut.html' title='Teach your own ... Le grand saut'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7809410313876025514</id><published>2011-11-02T10:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-02T10:39:55.647+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Zero tolerance ... Tolérance zéro</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Bienvenue en &lt;a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2011/11/02/01016-20111102ARTFIG00304-caricature-de-mahomet-le-siege-de-l-hebdomadaire-satirique-charlie-hebdo-incendie-son-site-pirate.php"&gt;Franceikistan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Welcome to &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15550350"&gt;Franceikistan&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7809410313876025514?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7809410313876025514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7809410313876025514' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7809410313876025514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7809410313876025514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/11/zero-tolerance-tolerance-zero.html' title='Zero tolerance ... Tolérance zéro'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-6262303150510128311</id><published>2011-10-28T12:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T12:59:00.066+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Europe</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; J'ai entendu à la radio que les technocrates de l'UE envisagent d'aller chercher des fonds de secours auprès de la Chine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'arrive pas à concevoir que ces 'politiciens' soient appraremment prêts à brader notre souverainté aux chinois, alors qu'ils ne sont pas prêts à la rendre au peuple!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis de plus en plus convaincu par la thèse que soit la &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2011/07/15/sortir-de-l-euro-permettrait-a-la-grece-de-repartir_1549023_3234.html"&gt;Grèce&lt;/a&gt;, soit l'&lt;a href="http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/240391-et-si-c-etait-l-allemagne-qui-quittait-l-euro"&gt;Allemagne&lt;/a&gt;, devrait sortir de l'euro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un cynique dirait que l'union monétaire était conçue précisément pour tôt ou tard forcer les états nations à l'union économique et politique.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; I heard on the radio that that the EU wonks were considering raising money from China for the bailouts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It beggars belief that our 'politicians' are apparently prepared to sell our sovereignty to China, but not give it back to us...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm increasingly convinced that either &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15452180"&gt;Greece&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://wallstreetpit.com/76397-to-save-the-euro-germany-has-to-quit-the-euro-zone"&gt;Germany&lt;/a&gt; ought to quit the Euro... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cynic would say that monetary union was designed specifically to eventually force the nation states into economic and political union. No, scratch that, no need to be a cynic, just read the first sentence of that second link...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6262303150510128311?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6262303150510128311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6262303150510128311' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6262303150510128311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6262303150510128311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/europe.html' title='Europe'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7149114548259156098</id><published>2011-10-26T07:32:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T07:32:00.443+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Cold wind on Arab Spring? ... Vent froid sur le printemps arabe?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Les pessimistes n'ont pas encore 100% raison, mais ça se présente plutôt pas bien, Islamistes gagnants aux éléctions en Tunisie; rumeurs de Sharia en Libye; tortures dans les hôpitaux-même en Syrie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mon Dieu, mon Dieu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The pessimists haven't yet been completely vindicated, but things aren't looking great: Islamist party wins in Tunisian polls; rumours of Sharia law in Libya; reports of people being tortured in the hospitals in Syria...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oh God.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7149114548259156098?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7149114548259156098/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7149114548259156098' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7149114548259156098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7149114548259156098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/cold-wind-on-arab-spring-vent-froid-sur.html' title='Cold wind on Arab Spring? ... Vent froid sur le printemps arabe?'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-1344727178852165930</id><published>2011-10-25T08:44:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T07:13:51.144+01:00</updated><title type='text'>60 things we’ve said to one or more of our children</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; J'ai la phlegm de traduire, désolé....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon, allez, je fais un effort:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Comment ça, tu as encore faim?!&lt;br /&gt;- Ne touche pas ça, c'est chaud&lt;br /&gt;- Vas au lit, je suis fatigué&lt;br /&gt;- Ne marche pas dans ça&lt;br /&gt;- T'as marché dans ça?&lt;br /&gt;- Je t'ai dit que c'était chaud&lt;br /&gt;- Laisse tranquille ton frère&lt;br /&gt;- Arrête ça!&lt;br /&gt;- Bon, il s'est passé quoi ici?&lt;br /&gt;- Est-ce que ça se range par terre? Je ne crois pas&lt;br /&gt;- Pose ça tout de suite&lt;br /&gt;- Est-ce que tu pourrais te taire et finir ton repas?&lt;br /&gt;- Viens ici!&lt;br /&gt;- Vas là-bas!&lt;br /&gt;- Comment t'as fait pour avoir un macaroni dans le nez?&lt;br /&gt;- N'essuies pas ça sur moi!&lt;br /&gt;- D'où vient toute cette eau?&lt;br /&gt;- Arrête ça, c'est dégoûtant!&lt;br /&gt;- C'est quoi ça, sur tes habits?&lt;br /&gt;- Et tu aimerais si je te faisais la même chose?&lt;br /&gt;- La télé est toujours allumée là-dedans?&lt;br /&gt;- Vas chercher les sparadraps&lt;br /&gt;- Jouons au lion qui dort&lt;br /&gt;- T'as quoi dans la bouche?&lt;br /&gt;- Est-ce que je sens quelque chose qui brule?&lt;br /&gt;- Pourquoi est-ce que mes chaussures sont dans la baignoire?&lt;br /&gt;- Non, les chiens n'aiment pas la trampoline&lt;br /&gt;- Rentre tout de suite dans la maison&lt;br /&gt;- Tu essaies de te tuer ou bien?&lt;br /&gt;- Ce n'est pas drôle&lt;br /&gt;- Vas laver ça tout de suite&lt;br /&gt;- Quoi, tu veux sauter de là-haut?&lt;br /&gt;- Viens pas pleurer vers moi, c'est toi qui a cherché&lt;br /&gt;- Oui, je t'ai entendu la première fois&lt;br /&gt;- Ne fais pas ça sur la table&lt;br /&gt;- Prend ça et ranges-le à sa place&lt;br /&gt;- C'est quoi ça, sur ton visage?&lt;br /&gt;- As-tu entendu ce que je viens de dire?&lt;br /&gt;- Ne mets pas des trucs dans ton nez&lt;br /&gt;- Ranges ça, on va manger&lt;br /&gt;- Qu'est-ce que je viens de dire?&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;i&gt;Qu'est-ce. Que. Je. Viens. De. Dire?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ne lance pas ça dans la maison&lt;br /&gt;- Où est ton pantalon?&lt;br /&gt;- Arrête ça, tu mets de la nourriture partout&lt;br /&gt;- Eloigne-toi de la route&lt;br /&gt;- Ferme la porte&lt;br /&gt;- Ca va, ça va, tu ne saignes pas&lt;br /&gt;- OK, qui c'est qui a fait ça?&lt;br /&gt;- C'est des pois, tu aimes les pois, c'est bon&lt;br /&gt;- Qu'est-ce que tu m'as dit?&lt;br /&gt;- Lâches ça, c'est lui qui l'avait en premier&lt;br /&gt;- Rentres dans ton lit&lt;br /&gt;- C'est quoi cette odeur?&lt;br /&gt;- Mais la dernière fois tu les as mangé, tes petits pois&lt;br /&gt;- Non, on ne mange pas du gâteau pour le dîner&lt;br /&gt;- C'est quoi ça, dans tes cheveux?&lt;br /&gt;- Si je dois remonter ces escaliers encore une fois...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Seen in comments &lt;a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/on-parenthood.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- What do you mean you’re still hungry?&lt;br /&gt;- Don’t touch that, it’s hot&lt;br /&gt;- Go to bed, I’m tired&lt;br /&gt;- Don’t step in that&lt;br /&gt;- Did you step in that?&lt;br /&gt;- I told you it was hot&lt;br /&gt;- Leave your brother alone&lt;br /&gt;- Ew, go wipe that off&lt;br /&gt;- Get that out of your mouth&lt;br /&gt;- Stop it&lt;br /&gt;- Okay what happened?&lt;br /&gt;- Does that belong on the floor? I don’t think so&lt;br /&gt;- Put that down&lt;br /&gt;- Could you just stop talking and eat your dinner?&lt;br /&gt;- Get over here&lt;br /&gt;- Get over there&lt;br /&gt;- How did the macaroni get in your nose?&lt;br /&gt;- Don’t wipe that on me&lt;br /&gt;- Where did all this water come from?&lt;br /&gt;- Stop it, that’s disgusting&lt;br /&gt;- What is that on your clothes?&lt;br /&gt;- How would you like it if I did that to you?&lt;br /&gt;- Is that television still on in there?&lt;br /&gt;- Okay go get the Band-aids&lt;br /&gt;- Let’s play the quiet game&lt;br /&gt;- What do you have in your mouth?&lt;br /&gt;- Is something burning?&lt;br /&gt;- Why are my shoes in the bathtub?&lt;br /&gt;- No, dogs don’t like trampolines&lt;br /&gt;- Get back in this house right now&lt;br /&gt;- Are you trying to kill yourself or what?&lt;br /&gt;- That’s not funny&lt;br /&gt;- Go wash that off&lt;br /&gt;- Wait, you’re going to jump off of what?&lt;br /&gt;- Don’t come crying to me, you started it&lt;br /&gt;- Yes I heard you the first time&lt;br /&gt;- Don’t do that at the table&lt;br /&gt;- Pick that up and put it back where it belongs&lt;br /&gt;- What is that on your face?&lt;br /&gt;- Did you hear what I just said?&lt;br /&gt;- Don’t put things in your nose&lt;br /&gt;- Put that back we’re about to eat dinner&lt;br /&gt;- What did I just tell you?&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;i&gt;What. Did. I. Just. Tell. You?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Don’t throw that in the house&lt;br /&gt;- Where are your pants?&lt;br /&gt;- Stop that you’re getting food everywhere&lt;br /&gt;- Get away from the street&lt;br /&gt;- Close the door&lt;br /&gt;- It’s okay you’re not bleeding anywhere&lt;br /&gt;- Alright who did this?&lt;br /&gt;- It’s green beans, you like green beans, they’re good&lt;br /&gt;- What did you say to me?&lt;br /&gt;- Let go of that, he was playing with it first&lt;br /&gt;- Get back in bed&lt;br /&gt;- What is that smell?&lt;br /&gt;- But you ate the green beans before&lt;br /&gt;- No we’re not having cake for dinner&lt;br /&gt;- What is that in your hair?&lt;br /&gt;- If I have to come back up those stairs again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-1344727178852165930?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/1344727178852165930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=1344727178852165930' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1344727178852165930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1344727178852165930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/60-things-weve-said-to-one-or-more-of.html' title='60 things we’ve said to one or more of our children'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5117373893079098458</id><published>2011-10-22T14:59:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T14:59:00.574+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Dogma</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/how-much-is-that-dogma-in-the-window"&gt;This &lt;/a&gt;is worth a read &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Both unquestioning acceptance and dogma-free religion are wrong for the  same reason: they destroy that which they set out to defend. The  doctrinal universalist who holds that all beliefs are equally valid  eventually ends having no beliefs at all. But the obedient and  unquestioning audience of the magisterium ends up in the same place, for  none of his beliefs are truly his."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5117373893079098458?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5117373893079098458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5117373893079098458' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5117373893079098458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5117373893079098458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/dogma.html' title='Dogma'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-2312851750598214250</id><published>2011-10-21T10:12:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-21T10:12:00.164+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Widmerpool</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2g-vHnmpooU/TplAq-XY3GI/AAAAAAAAEQM/v3kk4tk4xFQ/s1600/DSC05817.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2g-vHnmpooU/TplAq-XY3GI/AAAAAAAAEQM/v3kk4tk4xFQ/s400/DSC05817.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; A peine rentré du mariage (bon, d'accord, 9 jours après), me voilà à nouveau à défiler entre les barrières de sécurité de &lt;a href="http://www.gva.ch/"&gt;GVA&lt;/a&gt;, pour partir en Angleterre faire une mise à jour/test de soft sur une machine (ci-dessus). Pour des raisons qui m'échappe, on nous a pris des billets par &lt;a href="http://www.schiphol.nl/"&gt;AMS&lt;/a&gt; - donc un voyage qui aurait pu se faire en 6 heures en a pris 8. Parti du boulot vers 16h30, on a atterri à &lt;a href="http://www.birminghamairport.co.uk/"&gt;BHX&lt;/a&gt; vers 22h00 (anglais), puis il a fallu encore rouler jusqu'à l'&lt;a href="http://www.yewlodgehotel.co.uk/"&gt;hôtel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Barely back from the wedding (well, ok, 9 days after), I was back shuffling between the security barriers at &lt;a href="http://www.gva.ch/"&gt;GVA&lt;/a&gt;, off for two days in Blighty for a software update &amp;amp; test on one of 'our' machines (above). For some reason, they got us tickets via&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.schiphol.nl/"&gt;AMS&lt;/a&gt; - so a trip which could have taken 6 hours ended up taking 8 or more. I left work at 16h30, and we landed at &lt;a href="http://www.birminghamairport.co.uk/"&gt;BHX&lt;/a&gt; around 10pm (UK time), and then had to get the hire car (always a challenge - have you &lt;i&gt;ever&lt;/i&gt; got what you actually reserved at Europcar?), then we still had the drive to the &lt;a href="http://www.yewlodgehotel.co.uk/"&gt;hotel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qyPEf3-Y2EU/TplArDwlN2I/AAAAAAAAEQY/gyDxrqsjEJc/s1600/DSC05844.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qyPEf3-Y2EU/TplArDwlN2I/AAAAAAAAEQY/gyDxrqsjEJc/s400/DSC05844.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Voilà à quoi ressemble le fruit de mon travail. Assez peu de choses, pour finir, mais ça représente un paquet de boulot!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Here is the fruit of my labour. Doesn't look much, but it does represent a heck of a lot of man hours!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gv4XQq-uaFk/TplArd_pLzI/AAAAAAAAEQg/oxqnLdmT_-8/s1600/DSC05839.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gv4XQq-uaFk/TplArd_pLzI/AAAAAAAAEQg/oxqnLdmT_-8/s400/DSC05839.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Du côté du 'bourreur', ça ressemble presque à un cockpit d'avion !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The operator's cabin looks more like a cockpit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LzOWxnmcy40/TplArj7gF2I/AAAAAAAAEQw/u85ZGX_6sm8/s1600/DSC05829.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LzOWxnmcy40/TplArj7gF2I/AAAAAAAAEQw/u85ZGX_6sm8/s400/DSC05829.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Les 'jumelles'... C'est des &lt;a href="http://www.matisa.ch/matisa_fr/matisa_b66uc.html"&gt;B66 UC&lt;/a&gt;, si jamais vous vous posiez la question.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Double trouble.. These are &lt;a href="http://www.matisa.ch/matisa_fr/matisa_b66uc.html"&gt;B66 UC&lt;/a&gt;, in case you wondered. Apologies to people in the vicinity of Widmerpool who I didn't visit. It was a very whistle-stop tour, and I didn't have independent transport. I &lt;i&gt;did&lt;/i&gt; manage to fit in a full English breakfast, a Ploughman's sandwhich, &lt;a href="http://www.vintageinn.co.uk/theotterkegworth/"&gt;Fish &amp;amp; Chips&lt;/a&gt;, and a BIG apple crumble with custard and ice cream. And brought back a jar of Branston's!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-2312851750598214250?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/2312851750598214250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=2312851750598214250' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2312851750598214250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2312851750598214250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/widmerpool.html' title='Widmerpool'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2g-vHnmpooU/TplAq-XY3GI/AAAAAAAAEQM/v3kk4tk4xFQ/s72-c/DSC05817.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8569651677006173605</id><published>2011-10-20T10:04:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-20T10:04:00.210+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holidays'/><title type='text'>Coming home ... Le retour</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XTUVCCepmmA/TpC0MLYe_SI/AAAAAAAAEP0/ZRp8RZLDGm0/s1600/DSC05805.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XTUVCCepmmA/TpC0MLYe_SI/AAAAAAAAEP0/ZRp8RZLDGm0/s400/DSC05805.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Une petite pose au moment de laisse notre 'nouvelle voiture'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; A quick photo as we take leave of our 'new' car.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3-O6T29yagg/TpC0MObkJHI/AAAAAAAAEP8/tB2tzq8XDRM/s1600/DSC05810.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3-O6T29yagg/TpC0MObkJHI/AAAAAAAAEP8/tB2tzq8XDRM/s400/DSC05810.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; La première fois qu'on voit notre valise monter dans l'avion !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The first time I've seen (or at least noticed) my suitcase going into the plane.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ophIZVcODQ8/TpC0MbRCJXI/AAAAAAAAEQE/TIPlShFuFy8/s1600/DSC05812.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ophIZVcODQ8/TpC0MbRCJXI/AAAAAAAAEQE/TIPlShFuFy8/s400/DSC05812.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Les deux filles se sont super bien occupés pendant tout le voyage, je crois que les 'mauvais' jours sont derrières. Rebecca a fait sa 'douche' avec l'air du ventilateur, et Kalia a continué a décorer ses lunettes (tous les enfants ont reçu un paquet 'bricolage' avant les discours au mariage).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Both girls were really great on the return trip, Rebecca spent most of the plane trip having a 'shower' with the air from the overhead vent, and Kalia carried on decorating her glasses (part of an incredibly-inspired 'craft kit' that was handed out to the children before the wedding speeches).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8569651677006173605?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8569651677006173605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8569651677006173605' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8569651677006173605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8569651677006173605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/coming-home-le-retour.html' title='Coming home ... Le retour'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XTUVCCepmmA/TpC0MLYe_SI/AAAAAAAAEP0/ZRp8RZLDGm0/s72-c/DSC05805.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-6547088767620957511</id><published>2011-10-19T22:35:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-19T22:35:00.730+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holidays'/><title type='text'>The 'after' party ... Le retour</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T0Atji3saBw/TpC0Lc7C0AI/AAAAAAAAEPU/tNYRhWNz3EU/s1600/DSC05792.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T0Atji3saBw/TpC0Lc7C0AI/AAAAAAAAEPU/tNYRhWNz3EU/s400/DSC05792.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Très atypique pour un mariage anglais, il y avait un retour le dimanche matin. Encore plus atypique, c'était sous forme d'un petit 'culte' sous la tente, avec chants et une mini prédication.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Less than usual for an English wedding, there was a 'slight return' on Sunday - even more unusual, there was a short Christian service too, in the 'big tent'. Brought back a few memories from long, long ago.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_x7Z4eoFT4A/TpC0LzSJvhI/AAAAAAAAEPs/LmCTxk9yD1g/s1600/DSC05802.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_x7Z4eoFT4A/TpC0LzSJvhI/AAAAAAAAEPs/LmCTxk9yD1g/s400/DSC05802.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Les filles (à quatre toujours) se sont bien amusés.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The girls (the four of them) carried on having good fun together.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IvxZ00v6nyk/TpC0LkW4ncI/AAAAAAAAEPk/D3tSBOd6L94/s1600/DSC05801.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IvxZ00v6nyk/TpC0LkW4ncI/AAAAAAAAEPk/D3tSBOd6L94/s400/DSC05801.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Oh, oui, un autre truc atypique dans ce mariage atypique - il n'y avait pas de traiteur! Tout le monde a apporté quelque chose, et tout le monde (ou presque) a mis la main à la pâte pour aider aux rangements - y compris pour emporter toutes les restes !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Oh, another unusual thing about this wedding - there was no catering company. It was all 'DIY' - everyone bought something along, many many people helped tidying up in different ways (here's the washing up), and lots of people 'helped' with the leftovers too!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RUa6SXSeXbs/TpC0LtTDWaI/AAAAAAAAEPc/wR3ncODa6Yc/s1600/DSC05800.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RUa6SXSeXbs/TpC0LtTDWaI/AAAAAAAAEPc/wR3ncODa6Yc/s400/DSC05800.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Le 'prince' et la 'princesse' comme Kalia les appellent.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The 'prince' and 'princess', as Kalia calls them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6547088767620957511?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6547088767620957511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6547088767620957511' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6547088767620957511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6547088767620957511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/after-party-le-retour.html' title='The &apos;after&apos; party ... Le retour'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T0Atji3saBw/TpC0Lc7C0AI/AAAAAAAAEPU/tNYRhWNz3EU/s72-c/DSC05792.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-6330959530398375862</id><published>2011-10-18T20:04:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-18T20:04:00.474+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holidays'/><title type='text'>The party ... La fête</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dZXrZg8fpMw/TpCQ3BMSQqI/AAAAAAAAEO8/V0iw3wZzijw/s1600/DSC05759.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dZXrZg8fpMw/TpCQ3BMSQqI/AAAAAAAAEO8/V0iw3wZzijw/s400/DSC05759.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Après la cérémonie du mariage, on est vite allé changer les filles en quelque chose de plus confortable - il faisait 28 degrés là-bas (pas mal pour un 1er octobre en Angleterre!).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; After the wedding ceremony, we dashed back 'home' quickly to change the girls into something a bit more comfortable (it was 28 degrees - not bad for a 1st of October in the UK!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jQaRMm5Ar-I/TpCQ3dMzxqI/AAAAAAAAEPE/LR6ZHk1k6oY/s1600/DSC05764.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jQaRMm5Ar-I/TpCQ3dMzxqI/AAAAAAAAEPE/LR6ZHk1k6oY/s400/DSC05764.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; On a vu passer un Montgolfier - tellement près qu'on a cru un moment que c'était une surprise pour le mariage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; A hot air balloon went by so close that we thought for a moment that it might be a special wedding surprise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mY3BKdOzEb0/TpCQ3TJGZrI/AAAAAAAAEPM/2RsthoPwNfY/s1600/DSC05785.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mY3BKdOzEb0/TpCQ3TJGZrI/AAAAAAAAEPM/2RsthoPwNfY/s400/DSC05785.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; La fête a continué jusqu'à tard, avec de la musique 'live' - ici nos deux filles (avec leurs deux copines - aussi bilingues) prennent un moment de repos (elles ont beaucoup dansé !)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; There was a live band in the evening, here the girls take a short rest from dancing like crazy with their two bilingual friends.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6330959530398375862?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6330959530398375862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6330959530398375862' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6330959530398375862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6330959530398375862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/party-la-fete.html' title='The party ... La fête'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dZXrZg8fpMw/TpCQ3BMSQqI/AAAAAAAAEO8/V0iw3wZzijw/s72-c/DSC05759.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-4462325976813121054</id><published>2011-10-17T12:29:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-17T12:49:36.927+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holidays'/><title type='text'>Glad rags ... Sur notre 31</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MFr2_Bn7S7Q/TpCQ2w9P3ZI/AAAAAAAAEOs/eZG7sIOzH-Q/s1600/IMGP5650.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MFr2_Bn7S7Q/TpCQ2w9P3ZI/AAAAAAAAEOs/eZG7sIOzH-Q/s400/IMGP5650.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Fin de pique-nique avec Grandma et Aunty Pippa en plus.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The end of our picnic, which Grandma and Aunty Pippa too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_zAvSYSR_zk/TpCQ2XSMnPI/AAAAAAAAEOc/lXdZxdq5hI8/s1600/DSC05742.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_zAvSYSR_zk/TpCQ2XSMnPI/AAAAAAAAEOc/lXdZxdq5hI8/s400/DSC05742.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Pas évident d'habiller les filles, de les garder propre, de s'habiller soi-même, ET de prendre des photos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; It's not easy to get the girls dressed up, keep them clean, get ourselves dressed up, AND take pin-up photos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tNSyzgPbBQU/TpCQ2vjszQI/AAAAAAAAEOk/GKwjxUAnLCc/s1600/DSC05744.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tNSyzgPbBQU/TpCQ2vjszQI/AAAAAAAAEOk/GKwjxUAnLCc/s400/DSC05744.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; La seule que j'ai réussi à prendre de Rebecca.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; This is the only one I managed to get of Rebecca (by the way, she's 'smiling').&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HDnO-_nc_DI/TpCQ27MZSKI/AAAAAAAAEO0/cAsyJcNSDHo/s1600/IMGP5653.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HDnO-_nc_DI/TpCQ27MZSKI/AAAAAAAAEO0/cAsyJcNSDHo/s400/IMGP5653.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Toute la famille, bien habillée, souriante (plus ou moins) et sans grimaces (presque).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Here we are in all our glory, dressed up, smiling (more or less) and no silly faces.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-4462325976813121054?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/4462325976813121054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=4462325976813121054' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4462325976813121054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4462325976813121054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/glad-rags-sur-notre-31.html' title='Glad rags ... Sur notre 31'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MFr2_Bn7S7Q/TpCQ2w9P3ZI/AAAAAAAAEOs/eZG7sIOzH-Q/s72-c/IMGP5650.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-6201692934221897324</id><published>2011-10-15T09:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-17T12:49:36.927+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holidays'/><title type='text'>Mixed up ... Mélange</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JTycF0SFd1U/TpCQ1wpzkXI/AAAAAAAAEN8/MiGHv5_aRt4/s1600/DSC05723.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JTycF0SFd1U/TpCQ1wpzkXI/AAAAAAAAEN8/MiGHv5_aRt4/s400/DSC05723.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Les choses sont un peu mélangées ici sur ce blog. On a était en Angleterre en famille pour un mariage, et depuis je suis déjà retourné cette semaine pour le travail, mais j'ai pas encore commencé avec les photos du mariage !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alors sans plus attendre : nous avons logé tout près de l'église, dans des étables reconverties en chambres d'hôtes, nommés &lt;a href="http://www.thestables.uk.com/index.html"&gt;The Stables&lt;/a&gt;. Le voyage depuis l'aéroport était un peu hard, à cause des bouchons sur l'autoroute, j'ai pris le chemin bis, qui nous a pris un sacré bout de temps. En plus, c'était la première fois que je roulais à gauche depuis des années - j'ai failli faire un choc frontale!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Things are bit bit mixed up on this blog. We went to the UK for a wedding two weeks back, and I've already been back this week for work, and I haven't even got started with the wedding photos yet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here we go: we stayed very near the church, in some converted stables, aptly named &lt;a href="http://www.thestables.uk.com/index.html"&gt;The Stables&lt;/a&gt;. The trip there was a bit hairy - it took an age to get the hire car, then there were traffic jams on the motorway, so I tried cross country, and that took an age, and included me narrowly avoiding a full frontal (haven't driven on the left in years!).&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jP-lLWKBcaA/TpCQ2NrT1MI/AAAAAAAAEOE/E9054uxkXoY/s1600/DSC05725.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jP-lLWKBcaA/TpCQ2NrT1MI/AAAAAAAAEOE/E9054uxkXoY/s400/DSC05725.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Le mariage ne commençait qu'à 13h30, donc on a eu le temps pour visiter les animaux et la ferme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The wedding start in the afternoon, so we had time to visit the animals.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lAf-oHpzQTo/TpCQ2A0aiJI/AAAAAAAAEOM/NMhrRMx_kgQ/s1600/DSC05730.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lAf-oHpzQTo/TpCQ2A0aiJI/AAAAAAAAEOM/NMhrRMx_kgQ/s400/DSC05730.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Les deux filles sur un tracteur.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; And look at the tractor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ato_Iwkc1KQ/TpCQ2TTSR7I/AAAAAAAAEOU/TIy8pdkk0f4/s1600/DSC05739.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ato_Iwkc1KQ/TpCQ2TTSR7I/AAAAAAAAEOU/TIy8pdkk0f4/s400/DSC05739.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; On s'est fait un petit picnic devant "l'étable".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; And we had a little picnic in front of the 'stable'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6201692934221897324?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6201692934221897324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6201692934221897324' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6201692934221897324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6201692934221897324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/mixed-up-melange.html' title='Mixed up ... Mélange'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JTycF0SFd1U/TpCQ1wpzkXI/AAAAAAAAEN8/MiGHv5_aRt4/s72-c/DSC05723.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7992471496717736538</id><published>2011-10-11T23:08:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T23:08:00.833+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Gymnastics ... Gymnastique</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AM4DwXQ-AKg/To4Y4f0tGuI/AAAAAAAAEN0/FZjpEnNKYfA/s1600/DSC05721.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AM4DwXQ-AKg/To4Y4f0tGuI/AAAAAAAAEN0/FZjpEnNKYfA/s400/DSC05721.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Juste avant d'aller au lit, la tradition familiale veut que c'est chacune son tour sur mes épaules. Quand Mamma est dans les parages, c'est tout le monde en même temps !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notez la valise en préparation derrière - on a fait une escapade un peu folle le week-end passé ! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Each evening before bedtime, I carry one of the girls (alternate days) to bed on my shoulders. When Mamma is here, they all pile on at once!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note the suitcase in the background - we went on a special week-end a way, as most of you probably know!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7992471496717736538?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7992471496717736538/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7992471496717736538' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7992471496717736538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7992471496717736538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/gymnastics-gymnastique.html' title='Gymnastics ... Gymnastique'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AM4DwXQ-AKg/To4Y4f0tGuI/AAAAAAAAEN0/FZjpEnNKYfA/s72-c/DSC05721.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-6314154745364193925</id><published>2011-10-09T19:43:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-09T19:43:00.156+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Haircut ... Coiffure</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sILvZip1QRk/To4Y4IsW3jI/AAAAAAAAENs/gfhN8YndZ6w/s1600/DSC05718.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sILvZip1QRk/To4Y4IsW3jI/AAAAAAAAENs/gfhN8YndZ6w/s400/DSC05718.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Il y a deux semaines, Kalia a été pour la première fois (oui, de sa vie !) chez la coiffeuse, où elle s'est fait coupé un peu les cheveux. Elle était très fière.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vous regardé bien la photo, vous verrez que notre cuisine est en transition - à bientôt pour des photos 'définitives'....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Two weeks ago, Kalia went to the hairdresser's for a haircut - for the first time (in her life!). Just for a trim of the split ends, she was very proud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the background you may observe that our kitchen is undergoing some transformation: more here later when it's 'finished'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6314154745364193925?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6314154745364193925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6314154745364193925' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6314154745364193925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6314154745364193925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/haircut-coiffure.html' title='Haircut ... Coiffure'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sILvZip1QRk/To4Y4IsW3jI/AAAAAAAAENs/gfhN8YndZ6w/s72-c/DSC05718.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-2413745232095764485</id><published>2011-10-08T19:45:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-08T19:45:07.722+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Industrious ... Industrie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nz7zctL2Jrk/To4Y2i5eO7I/AAAAAAAAENk/lwhQe4i2t5w/s1600/DSC05713.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nz7zctL2Jrk/To4Y2i5eO7I/AAAAAAAAENk/lwhQe4i2t5w/s400/DSC05713.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Rebecca se met aussi au dessin et coloriage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Rebecca is getting into colouring-in and drawing too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-2413745232095764485?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/2413745232095764485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=2413745232095764485' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2413745232095764485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2413745232095764485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/10/industrious-industrie.html' title='Industrious ... Industrie'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nz7zctL2Jrk/To4Y2i5eO7I/AAAAAAAAENk/lwhQe4i2t5w/s72-c/DSC05713.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-1050471828016113210</id><published>2011-09-29T15:06:00.034+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-29T15:06:00.317+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Optimism reigns ... L'optimiste</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Tout va bien, Madame la marquise: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Les politiciens de l'UE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ont passé des mois&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;à nous assurer que&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;le plan de sauvetage&lt;/span&gt; fonctionne&lt;span class="hps"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;que la Grèce&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ne fera pas&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;défaut.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt; autres, bien sûr,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;savons la vérité&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;La Grèce est&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;insolvable,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;fauché&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;, en faillite. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(&lt;a href="http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2011/09/big-fat-greek-default.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;toutes ces balivernes&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sur un plan de sauvetage&lt;/span&gt; sont &lt;span class="hps"&gt;académique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;s, puisque&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;les calculs &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;nous disent&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;que la Grèce&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;fera défaut&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;et que la zone euro&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;va se planter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;...(&lt;a href="http://www.directdemocracyuk.com/blog/2011/09/wake-up-and-smell-the-toast.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Il semble que&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;de nombreux politiciens&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ne comprennent toujours pas&lt;/span&gt; ceci&lt;span class="hps"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;L'argent&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;est épuisé&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;et nous&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ne pouvons pas emprunter&lt;/span&gt; pour financer &lt;span class="hps"&gt;notre retour&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;à la prospérité.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.talkcarswell.com/show.aspx?id=2099"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;L'illusion&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;au cœur&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;de cette crise est&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;que chaque problème&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;financier a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;une solution politique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/8788501/Eurozone-crisis-there-are-no-miracles-in-Greek-tragedies.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; All clear on the Western Front: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;EU politicians have spent months assuring us that the bailouts are  working: that Greece will not default. We, of course, knew otherwise.  Greece is insolvent, broke, bankrupt (&lt;a href="http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2011/09/big-fat-greek-default.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...all this bailout nonsense is academic since the maths tells us that Greece will default and the eurozone will crash...(&lt;a href="http://www.directdemocracyuk.com/blog/2011/09/wake-up-and-smell-the-toast.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems as if many&amp;nbsp;politicians still don't get this.&amp;nbsp; The money has run out and we cannot borrow our way back to prosperity. (&lt;a href="http://www.talkcarswell.com/show.aspx?id=2099"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fallacy at the heart of this crisis   is that every financial problem has a political solution (&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/8788501/Eurozone-crisis-there-are-no-miracles-in-Greek-tragedies.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-1050471828016113210?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/1050471828016113210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=1050471828016113210' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1050471828016113210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1050471828016113210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/optimism-reigns-loptimiste.html' title='Optimism reigns ... L&apos;optimiste'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-6172521818017992954</id><published>2011-09-28T17:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T17:25:01.040+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Big girl ... Grande</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKN77fwFsMo/ToCZXF60isI/AAAAAAAAENc/RJgGf6cKOpA/s1600/DSC05678.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKN77fwFsMo/ToCZXF60isI/AAAAAAAAENc/RJgGf6cKOpA/s400/DSC05678.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; "Je dois apprendre à faire la vaisselle, Maman".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elle a déjà essayé le repassage, et l'autre jour c'était l'aspirateur. Ici c'était la vaisselle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tout à fait dans le norme pour une petite fille qui est en train de grandir. Sauf que des fois elle pousse un peu loin dans les soucis (tiens, tiens, je me demande d'où ça peut venir?). L'autre soir avant de s'endormir: "Je m'inquiète: quand je vais être Maman, et le médecin va couper mon ventre pour sortir le bébé".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; "I need to learn how to do the washing up, Mummy".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She's already tried her hand at ironing, the other day it was the vacuum cleaner. And here it was washing up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All very normal for a little girl who's turning into a big girl. Except that sometimes she's a bit too much like &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102316/"&gt;Little Man Tate&lt;/a&gt; (I guess you may think of other possible comparisons closer to home). The other evening she was worrying about "When I'll be a Mummy and the doctor has to open my tummy to get the baby out".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6172521818017992954?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6172521818017992954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6172521818017992954' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6172521818017992954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6172521818017992954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/big-girl-grande.html' title='Big girl ... Grande'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKN77fwFsMo/ToCZXF60isI/AAAAAAAAENc/RJgGf6cKOpA/s72-c/DSC05678.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7356305543651389421</id><published>2011-09-25T18:48:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-25T18:48:00.391+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Cupcakes ... Petits gâteaux</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qRw1Z1ZiPt4/TneqoKI7qAI/AAAAAAAAENM/iHImGD8VuTc/s1600/DSC05683.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qRw1Z1ZiPt4/TneqoKI7qAI/AAAAAAAAENM/iHImGD8VuTc/s400/DSC05683.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; On aime bien faire la cuisine ensemble, mais c'est pas toujours évident de trouver quelque chose où tout le monde peut participer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; I like to 'cook' with the girls, but it's not always easy to find something that everyone can participate in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7356305543651389421?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7356305543651389421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7356305543651389421' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7356305543651389421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7356305543651389421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/cupcakes-petits-gateaux.html' title='Cupcakes ... Petits gâteaux'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qRw1Z1ZiPt4/TneqoKI7qAI/AAAAAAAAENM/iHImGD8VuTc/s72-c/DSC05683.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5711968538641404512</id><published>2011-09-24T12:51:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-24T12:51:00.636+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Spontaneous combustion?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15032614"&gt;First Irish case of death by spontaneous combustion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it's not even April the first!.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5711968538641404512?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5711968538641404512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5711968538641404512' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5711968538641404512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5711968538641404512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/spontaneous-combustion.html' title='Spontaneous combustion?'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-1202722573256182852</id><published>2011-09-23T12:35:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T07:16:33.216+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Weight loss tips ... Comment perdre du poids</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; En fait, c'est pas tellement comment perdre du poids, mais 'comment ne pas se goinfrer'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voilà quelques astuces que j'ai trouvé pour essayer d'arrêter de trop manger. Avec l'âge qui avance, j'ai de plus en plus de peine à bien dormir si j'exagère aux repas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manger le petit déjeuner plus tard - avant, je mangeais le petit déjeuner avant de partir au travail, à 6 du matin. En conséquence vers 10h j'avais (évidemment) un petit creux (alors que je me forçais à 6h). La solution a été de prendre mes céréales avec moi, dans un Tup', et maintenant je mange vers 8h, voire plus tard si je m'immerse dans le boulot.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ne pas garder de cochonneries dans mon tiroir. A cause des petits creux, j'avais un tiroir rempli de bonnes choses, sauf qu'elles étaient plutôt mauvaises. Il m'arrive encore d'avoir un petit creux, mais dans ce cas je dois faire l'effort de descendre à la cantine et &lt;i&gt;acheter &lt;/i&gt;quelque chose.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Se brosser les dents droit après le repas du soir. Ceci ne marche qui si votre paresse est plus forte que votre gloutonnerie, et si votre conscience ne vous permet pas d'aller au lit avec les dents sales!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;En cas de doute, manger une pomme. Comme avec les gamins: si tu ne veux pas de pomme, tu n'as pas vraiment faim.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Au restaurant, ne prendre qu'une entrée et un dessert. Le plat principal est très tentant, mais le plaisir de s'empiffrer est de très courte durée.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aléger son repas du soir au maximum: nous en sommes maintenant au pain, salade, un peu de fromage et de jambon. Je considère que manger quelque chose de différent est un privilège, voire un luxe, et je personnellement je pense que si les déjeuners sont variés, on peut supporter d'avoir un petit déjeuner et souper 'de routine'.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tromper son palais. Si, comme moi, vos papilles gustatives demandent du sucré à la fin du repas, j'ai trouvé que rien qu'un petit chocolat peu les satisfaire.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mange plus lentement: c'est-à-dire, mange des choses qui ont besoin d'être mâchés!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ne vas pas manger chez quelqu'un qui fait un régime: il voudront vous faire manger tout ce qu'ils auraient envie de manger!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Actually, this post really ought to be called 'eating less tips'. Weight loss is secondary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are a few things I've thought of, to try and stop myself eating too much. With advancing age (and advancing spread), I have increasingly troubled nights if I overdo my evening meal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eat breakfast later - I used to eat breakfast before leaving for work, at 6 in the morning. Which meant I was understandably peckish around 10 (and was forcing myself at 6). The solution is to stuff my cereals in a Tupperware, and now I eat it at work, around 8 (or later if I get stuck '&lt;a href="http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/20542"&gt;in the zone&lt;/a&gt;').&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Not keeping any junk snacks in my drawer. As a consequence of being peckish around 10, I had a drawer full of 'goodies', except that most of the goodies were pretty bad. I still sometimes feel hungry, but in that case I have to make the concious effort of going down to the canteen and &lt;i&gt;buying&lt;/i&gt; something. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Brush your teeth straight after your evening meal. This only works if your vice of sloth is greater than your vice of gluttony, and if your conscience won't let you go to bed with dirty teeth!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If in doubt, eat an apple. Just like with kids: if you don't want an apple, you're not hungry.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;At restaurants, only order a starter and a dessert. The main course is really really tempting, but the pleasure of stuffing your face is very short-lived.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Keep your evening meal as simple and as light as possible. We're down to bread, salad, a bit of cheese, a bit of ham. I think that eating something different every day is a privilege, if not a luxury, and personally I think that having varied lunches, but keeping breakfast and dinner 'routine' is an acceptable compromise.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Trick your palate. If, like me, you're taste buds 'expect' dessert or pudding of some sort, I've found that you can palm them off with just a little bit of chocolate or something.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eat more slowly: ergo, eat food which actually needs chewing!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Don't accept an invitation to eat out, especially not to the house of someone else who is on a diet, they'll try to feed you all the things they wish they could eat!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-1202722573256182852?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/1202722573256182852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=1202722573256182852' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1202722573256182852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1202722573256182852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/weight-loss-tips-comment-perdre-du.html' title='Weight loss tips ... Comment perdre du poids'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8406366425925302321</id><published>2011-09-21T21:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T21:54:00.775+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Air rescue? ... Sauvetage dans l'air?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CdsdzakpwXM/Tner-4WqXoI/AAAAAAAAENU/HFUNHhvjnLQ/s1600/DSC05708.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CdsdzakpwXM/Tner-4WqXoI/AAAAAAAAENU/HFUNHhvjnLQ/s400/DSC05708.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; On a vu un truc bizarre l'autre jour. Il faisait un temps pourri, alors on était terré chez nous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai entendu un bruit d'avion à hélice, qui m'avait l'air assez grand, alors je suis allé jeter un coup d'oeil. J'ai alors vu qu'il y en avait deux, un grand et un petit, qui tournaient par dessus le lac.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je me demandais s'ils n'étaient pas en train de se demander que faire de ces grosses montagnes cachées dérrière les nuages, quand tout d'un coup un avion de chasse a surgit et a commencé a tourner en rond avec un des avions à hélice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après un demi douzaine de tours ensemble, ils sont partis du côté de Lausanne, et se sont quitté vers un grand trou bleu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment j'aimerais savoir ce qui s'est vraiment passé !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Weird thing happened the other day: the weather was yucky and overcast (as you can see), and we were pottering around inside. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I heard a largish-sounding propeller plane go overhead, then heard it again, and again. I went to have a look (as you do), and saw that there were actually two, a smaller and bigger one. They were circling over the lake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I half-wondered to myself whether they weren't trying to figure out what to do about them big mountains hidden behind those zero-visibility clouds, when along came a fighter jet, which started circling with one of the prop planes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After half a dozen laps, they eventually set off in the Lausanne direction, towards a blue hole in the sky, and parted company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd love to know what was *really* happening!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8406366425925302321?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8406366425925302321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8406366425925302321' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8406366425925302321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8406366425925302321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/air-rescue-sauvetage-dans-lair.html' title='Air rescue? ... Sauvetage dans l&apos;air?'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CdsdzakpwXM/Tner-4WqXoI/AAAAAAAAENU/HFUNHhvjnLQ/s72-c/DSC05708.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-8190404355840770373</id><published>2011-09-13T22:16:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-15T12:18:02.877+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Solalex</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eAHovi875vA/Tl_oUsl-0tI/AAAAAAAAEM0/6yP0sP4R_5E/s1600/DSC05658.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eAHovi875vA/Tl_oUsl-0tI/AAAAAAAAEM0/6yP0sP4R_5E/s400/DSC05658.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Il y a quelques semaines notre église a fait un 'culte alpestre' - là haut des les montagnes. Les filles ont surtout profité de jouer dans le ruisseau.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; A few weeks back, our church had an 'alphen service' - up in the mountains. The girls made the most of playing in the stream.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i3KQcq_0fH0/Tl_oU9kQf3I/AAAAAAAAEM8/c8HgWQLlhI8/s1600/DSC05664.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i3KQcq_0fH0/Tl_oU9kQf3I/AAAAAAAAEM8/c8HgWQLlhI8/s400/DSC05664.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Rebecca surtout, a eu énormément de plaisir à passer d'un côté à l'autre, jouer avec les cailloux.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Rebecca especially, had a really good time paddling and messing with stones.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T96GS01O_4E/Tl_oVHKZd8I/AAAAAAAAENE/ASZqULzNFKU/s1600/DSC05670.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T96GS01O_4E/Tl_oVHKZd8I/AAAAAAAAENE/ASZqULzNFKU/s400/DSC05670.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Au retour, la sieste s'est imposée toute seule.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; On the trip back, she was mildly zonked.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-8190404355840770373?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/8190404355840770373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=8190404355840770373' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8190404355840770373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/8190404355840770373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/solalex.html' title='Solalex'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eAHovi875vA/Tl_oUsl-0tI/AAAAAAAAEM0/6yP0sP4R_5E/s72-c/DSC05658.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-4701448298273934302</id><published>2011-09-12T12:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-12T12:37:39.327+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Crowned ... Couronné</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Je reviens de ma deuxième visite chez le dentiste. Double 'reconstruction dentaire' - deux molaires foutus depuis l'intérieur. Première visite il m'a massacré la partie saine pour pouvoir atteindre la partie pourrie. Cette fois-ci, pose des tiges et des couronnes temporaires. Le pire était de rester immobile avec la machoire serrée pendant que la prise d'empreinte se faisait - avec la salive qui monte au fond de la gorge. J'avais l'impression de me noyer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beurk!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Just back from a second visit to the dentists. Two molars gone bad on the inside. The first visit involved lopping off the health top so he could get to the rotten bits and clean them out. This time, he glued in the little pillars, and stuck some temporary crowns on top. The worst bit was staying still while the tooth print set, jaws clamped tight and the back of my mouth slowing filling up with saliva. I felt like I was drowning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yuck!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-4701448298273934302?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/4701448298273934302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=4701448298273934302' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4701448298273934302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4701448298273934302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/crowned-couronne.html' title='Crowned ... Couronné'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s72-c/flag_fr.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-1253032801787366466</id><published>2011-09-07T12:12:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T12:12:00.137+02:00</updated><title type='text'>FA2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DQ5nM54M00c/Tl_nM9Mrz-I/AAAAAAAAELs/3kTqyzK-QZQ/s1600/IMGP4715.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DQ5nM54M00c/Tl_nM9Mrz-I/AAAAAAAAELs/3kTqyzK-QZQ/s400/IMGP4715.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Il y a 10 jours, je suis allé avec les filles pour voir le meeting qui célébrait les 100 ans de l'aéroport de Lausanne "La Blécherette". Je regrette de ne pas avoir vraiment capté les noms de tous ces avions, j'étais un peu plus concentré à ne pas perdre de vu mes deux 'agneaux'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On est arrivé juste après la pluie, et le temps était très changeant, comme vous pouvez voir sur les photos. J'ai quand même réussi à prendre un coup de soleil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; We went to an airshow which was to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lausanne 'airport'. I didn't really pay attention to what all the planes were called, I was too busy trying to keep track of my two 'lambs' ducking and weaving through the jungle of legs...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We arrived just at the end of a shower, and the weather was very blustery, as you can see from the different skies in the photos. Somehow I managed to get a sunburnt face..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pADthu0SJzc/Tl_nM4KpQpI/AAAAAAAAEL0/PNeuN4Q_TDE/s1600/IMGP4727.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pADthu0SJzc/Tl_nM4KpQpI/AAAAAAAAEL0/PNeuN4Q_TDE/s400/IMGP4727.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EQfVMWuSoic/Tl_nNfdAc2I/AAAAAAAAEL8/N0HvRN7P9zU/s1600/IMGP4738.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EQfVMWuSoic/Tl_nNfdAc2I/AAAAAAAAEL8/N0HvRN7P9zU/s400/IMGP4738.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JkOANoMVTZ4/Tl_nNqnI6uI/AAAAAAAAEME/QE2LH5d8EBw/s1600/IMGP4745.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JkOANoMVTZ4/Tl_nNqnI6uI/AAAAAAAAEME/QE2LH5d8EBw/s400/IMGP4745.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N1AssbWpWpE/Tl_nN3zVxWI/AAAAAAAAEMM/u8vyBedy8eE/s1600/IMGP4749.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N1AssbWpWpE/Tl_nN3zVxWI/AAAAAAAAEMM/u8vyBedy8eE/s400/IMGP4749.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pkk5zgK8YJg/Tl_nOM7s-AI/AAAAAAAAEMU/d6jwuHsWZRk/s1600/IMGP4770.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pkk5zgK8YJg/Tl_nOM7s-AI/AAAAAAAAEMU/d6jwuHsWZRk/s400/IMGP4770.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JFPlA7oAgSA/Tl_nOPty8VI/AAAAAAAAEMc/lw1hVwXpSYQ/s1600/IMGP4780.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JFPlA7oAgSA/Tl_nOPty8VI/AAAAAAAAEMc/lw1hVwXpSYQ/s400/IMGP4780.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B8jJhyCkzLM/Tl_nOaLEwzI/AAAAAAAAEMk/3hwRjEI3ieg/s1600/IMGP4694.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B8jJhyCkzLM/Tl_nOaLEwzI/AAAAAAAAEMk/3hwRjEI3ieg/s400/IMGP4694.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-figPXPw9Kzc/Tl_nOuEtaRI/AAAAAAAAEMs/JEwoOidBpYQ/s1600/IMGP4664.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-figPXPw9Kzc/Tl_nOuEtaRI/AAAAAAAAEMs/JEwoOidBpYQ/s400/IMGP4664.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-1253032801787366466?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/1253032801787366466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=1253032801787366466' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1253032801787366466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/1253032801787366466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/fa2011.html' title='FA2011'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DQ5nM54M00c/Tl_nM9Mrz-I/AAAAAAAAELs/3kTqyzK-QZQ/s72-c/IMGP4715.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-2314690805294747332</id><published>2011-09-06T22:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-06T22:06:00.630+02:00</updated><title type='text'>4.5.6</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c6WqhoBpaf0/Tl_l6DVROAI/AAAAAAAAELU/4qpdvhWtQmw/s1600/DSC05604.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c6WqhoBpaf0/Tl_l6DVROAI/AAAAAAAAELU/4qpdvhWtQmw/s400/DSC05604.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DD-32uTw0tU/Tl_l6VtOVKI/AAAAAAAAELc/FVA51nbw_es/s1600/DSC05637.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DD-32uTw0tU/Tl_l6VtOVKI/AAAAAAAAELc/FVA51nbw_es/s400/DSC05637.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XKI5ct9rIV0/Tl_l6u-pmFI/AAAAAAAAELk/8XTQ4rjQ4Ms/s1600/DSC05672.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XKI5ct9rIV0/Tl_l6u-pmFI/AAAAAAAAELk/8XTQ4rjQ4Ms/s400/DSC05672.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; La petite souris va vers la faillite!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; The tooth fairy is nearly bankrupt!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-2314690805294747332?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/2314690805294747332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=2314690805294747332' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2314690805294747332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/2314690805294747332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/456.html' title='4.5.6'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c6WqhoBpaf0/Tl_l6DVROAI/AAAAAAAAELU/4qpdvhWtQmw/s72-c/DSC05604.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3419383869105311045</id><published>2011-09-05T21:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-05T21:25:00.323+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Water, water, not quite everywhere</title><content type='html'>&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; It doesn't take much to confirm pessimist's dim view of the future, but if you put aside global warming, the financial crisis and colony collapse disorder, a big potential indicator of future instability is water shortage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try this for size: what does this list of countries have in common?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, yes, they're all revolting. But the main point is that they all suffer from acute water shortages. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a 'nice' quote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Arguably, the most fundamental of the causes of the Arab spring's  unrest is the crumbling of a social contract that linked cheap water  with subservience to dictators".&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two articles on this topic which are worth a read:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/may/19/water-climate-change"&gt;The Middle East is running dry - and into the perfect storm?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/20/arab-nations-water-running-out"&gt;What does the Arab world do when its water runs out?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously, living within a stone's throw of &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_L%C3%A9man"&gt;89km&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; of water&lt;/a&gt;, I probably shouldn't be worrying too much. But hey...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3419383869105311045?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3419383869105311045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3419383869105311045' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3419383869105311045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3419383869105311045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/water-water-not-quite-everywhere.html' title='Water, water, not quite everywhere'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s72-c/flag_uk.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3384795777839316830</id><published>2011-09-04T21:55:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-04T21:55:00.655+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Banksy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xo7k248_TIk/TlK0Slz3feI/AAAAAAAAEKY/L9O7D1EUUfE/s1600/DSC05625.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xo7k248_TIk/TlK0Slz3feI/AAAAAAAAEKY/L9O7D1EUUfE/s400/DSC05625.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; Est-ce que &lt;a href="http://www.banksy.co.uk/newoutdoors/outdoors.html"&gt;Banksy&lt;/a&gt; serait en vacances en Suisse?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Is &lt;a href="http://www.banksy.co.uk/newoutdoors/outdoors.html"&gt;Bansky&lt;/a&gt; on holiday in Switzerland?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3384795777839316830?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3384795777839316830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3384795777839316830' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3384795777839316830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3384795777839316830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/banksy.html' title='Banksy'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xo7k248_TIk/TlK0Slz3feI/AAAAAAAAEKY/L9O7D1EUUfE/s72-c/DSC05625.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-3162452092210244257</id><published>2011-09-02T16:58:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-02T16:58:00.288+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Whats? ... Echasses?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VuzaJgWIbRo/TlURpe7rrbI/AAAAAAAAELA/PpKr0h6iyX4/s1600/DSC05628.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VuzaJgWIbRo/TlURpe7rrbI/AAAAAAAAELA/PpKr0h6iyX4/s400/DSC05628.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; On avait ses machines quand j'étais gamin, aucune idée comment ils s'appellaient (puis c'était en carton à l'époque, pas en pastique)...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; We used to have these when I was a kid. Can't remember what they were called. I do remember that they were made out of layers of cardboard though, not plastic...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-3162452092210244257?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/3162452092210244257/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=3162452092210244257' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3162452092210244257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/3162452092210244257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-echasses.html' title='Whats? ... Echasses?'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VuzaJgWIbRo/TlURpe7rrbI/AAAAAAAAELA/PpKr0h6iyX4/s72-c/DSC05628.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-6680741511240184909</id><published>2011-09-01T16:52:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-01T16:52:00.196+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Brunch</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7ywHZscQ514/TlUQK_f8qaI/AAAAAAAAEK4/vLMQ8RYDNtw/s1600/IMGP4657.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7ywHZscQ514/TlUQK_f8qaI/AAAAAAAAEK4/vLMQ8RYDNtw/s400/IMGP4657.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; (Avec un peu de retard). Le premier août, on a est allé un à brunch à la ferme près de Romont. On se réjouissait comme des gamins à l'idée de manger tout plein de bonnes choses. Quel ne fut notre déception de se retrouver devant une assiette avec légumes bouilli, jambon bouilli, et saucisson bouilli... Décidément PAS un brunch digne de ce nom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le seul point positif était un tour en calèche, et Kalia qui a eu l'opportunité "d'aider" le clown avec son spectacle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Another late post. For the 1st of August (Swiss national holiday), we went to a 'brunch at a farm', which is a tradition-in-the-making. We've been to three others in previous years, and were really looking forward to a good nosh-up and amazing spread.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were incredibly disappointed to be served a plate of boiled vegetables and boiled meat, plus slice of bread. That is NOT what I call a brunch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main highlight was a ride in a horse and cart, and Kalia 'helping' the clown.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-6680741511240184909?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/6680741511240184909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=6680741511240184909' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6680741511240184909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/6680741511240184909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/09/brunch.html' title='Brunch'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7ywHZscQ514/TlUQK_f8qaI/AAAAAAAAEK4/vLMQ8RYDNtw/s72-c/IMGP4657.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-323361967703308163</id><published>2011-08-31T13:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-31T13:25:59.729+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Back to school ... Rentrée</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ITDsmEouHw/TlK0ibNTJ4I/AAAAAAAAEKg/o4Bm7Kum8fg/s1600/DSC05633.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ITDsmEouHw/TlK0ibNTJ4I/AAAAAAAAEKg/o4Bm7Kum8fg/s400/DSC05633.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NYhvTWgI/AAAAAAAACDI/vUuOkGmsi3I/s400/flag_fr.gif" /&gt; J'en voie cette photo avec 10 jours de retard, mais voilà Kalia qui se prépare à rentrée en premier primaire. Pour l'instant ça se passe plutôt bien ("C'est coool!").&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div lang="EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/Si-NY3-055I/AAAAAAAACDQ/AfVGJ9cTsoI/s400/flag_uk.gif" /&gt; Ten days late, but here's a photo of Kalia just about to start in her new class. So far, so good, she says it's "coool". So she's doing better than I did.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-323361967703308163?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/323361967703308163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=323361967703308163' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/323361967703308163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/323361967703308163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/08/back-to-school-rentree.html' title='Back to school ... Rentrée'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ITDsmEouHw/TlK0ibNTJ4I/AAAAAAAAEKg/o4Bm7Kum8fg/s72-c/DSC05633.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-5700339755237205767</id><published>2011-08-23T18:09:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-23T18:09:00.141+02:00</updated><title type='text'>You have failed</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HoWWsBmjN0Q/TlNE-HZo7hI/AAAAAAAAEKo/1Gs1OJmJB2o/s1600/failed.png" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HoWWsBmjN0Q/TlNE-HZo7hI/AAAAAAAAEKo/1Gs1OJmJB2o/s400/failed.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;You have failed the practice citizenship test.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questions answered correctly: 14 out of 24 (58%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time taken: 02 minutes 58 seconds.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one 'kills' me (compare the title with the question...):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ae-Lm-In46U/TlNE-RN3V3I/AAAAAAAAEKw/cO7iRfH0Udo/s1600/uk.png" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="318" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ae-Lm-In46U/TlNE-RN3V3I/AAAAAAAAEKw/cO7iRfH0Udo/s400/uk.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-5700339755237205767?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/5700339755237205767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=5700339755237205767' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5700339755237205767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/5700339755237205767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/08/you-have-failed.html' title='You have failed'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HoWWsBmjN0Q/TlNE-HZo7hI/AAAAAAAAEKo/1Gs1OJmJB2o/s72-c/failed.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-7926111491640290139</id><published>2011-08-22T21:32:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-22T21:32:30.964+02:00</updated><title type='text'>4th ... 4ème</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JuUCrXSFMWg/TlJ0tdVVdKI/AAAAAAAAEKQ/zx-gRQRCZLs/s1600/DSC05604.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JuUCrXSFMWg/TlJ0tdVVdKI/AAAAAAAAEKQ/zx-gRQRCZLs/s400/DSC05604.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div lang="FR"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-7926111491640290139?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/7926111491640290139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=7926111491640290139' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7926111491640290139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/7926111491640290139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/08/4th-4eme.html' title='4th ... 4ème'/><author><name>Benjol</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076527068502260545</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W2DRhdPe644/S0OsokkTGAI/AAAAAAAACWE/_9PJnB2gy7M/s1600-R/EyesUpEyesDown.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JuUCrXSFMWg/TlJ0tdVVdKI/AAAAAAAAEKQ/zx-gRQRCZLs/s72-c/DSC05604.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9943981.post-4024047184383859157</id><published>2011-08-17T22:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-17T22:03:15.748+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Ironing ... Repassage</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r2uPoFLE91g/Tjr8E9X4AmI/AAAAAAAAEGY/WcrYCgT-QZ8/s1600/DSC05579.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637095045731975778" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r2uPoFLE91g/Tjr8E9X4AmI/AAAAAAAAEGY/WcrYCgT-QZ8/s400/DSC05579.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9943981-4024047184383859157?l=benjol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/feeds/4024047184383859157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9943981&amp;postID=4024047184383859157' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4024047184383859157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9943981/posts/default/4024047184383859157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjol.blogspot.com/2011/08/ironing-repassage.html' title='Ironing ... 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