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Yep. All I am saying is give those poor peas a chance, for god sake.

For the little history, when they want to be 'nice' with each others, here, French were calling anglo "square head" and anglo were calling French "pea soup".

Looks like no matter where you go, there's prejudice and bigotry to be found. Perhaps, we need to return to writing essays on Lord of the Flies ~ to answer the burning question, "Is man inherently good or evil?"

Here, Canadians suffer the reputation of being loving and peaceful.

'Looks like no matter where you go, there's prejudice and bigotry to be found.'

So true.

'Here, Canadians suffer the reputation of being loving and peaceful.'

So true again.

'to answer the burning question, "Is man inherently good or evil?" '

Perfection is of this world. This seems to be both. Up to us to enhance in ourselves one or the other, it is all between our hands.

They say that even the perfectly awaken person will never be perfect, just in perfect accordance with reality.

Qui veut faire l'ange fait la bête as we say over here.

I love peas.

Not those big, fat, old pale green peas, which are nasty, and would put anyone off, or that awful English delicacy called 'mushy peas', but nice, sweet, juicy young peas, straight from the pod to the mouth.
They are almost as nice cooked, in gravy, or with a little butter; or frozen, right from the freezer bag - in fact UNthawed frozen is next best to fresh - icy cold with the frost still on them - almost like eating sorbet. YUM!

UNthawed frozen is next best to fresh - icy cold with the frost still on them - almost like eating sorbet. YUM!

Now that is what I call "News" and in the right section ! Just the kind and way I like my peas, what you described prior.

Tchoc ~ I was with you to the end ~ to the almost, very end ~ when you did this French thing .

This French thing means 'who does try to act like an angel acts like a beast.'

Go ahead with your peas love stories, girls.

For me I stick to my yummy blueberry hill.


P.S. : Tri-me, please, don't believe all boogie men thrilling horror reports about strangers having shark eyes and being an ennemy hiden behind every tree (copy rights : Jaws XVIII - the fish is doing bicycle in the parc and eat whatever is flesh and is passing by). Please.

lizzytysh wrote:

UNthawed frozen is next best to fresh - icy cold with the frost still on them - almost like eating sorbet. YUM!

Now that is what I call "News" and in the right section ! Just the kind and way I like my peas, what you described prior.

News indeed! Maybe we should start a pea-lovers fan club...

ALL my children hate peas.

Thank you for that translation, Tchoc. The peas and blueberry hill are not mutually exclusive, you know .

Our numbers may be few, but we'd be a devoted fan club, Fljots .

No I have the version of the women singing in French. I love the French, my family were Thierry before they left France. I have always been surrounded by French people. One dear freind with whom I should be speaking in French, ne'st pas. Fredericton is the capital so many bilangue employees. There is some French influence on me when I go to get my hair done I have them cut and please close the TV and go to bed. It is in my brain.
Thanks for the description of mushy peas. They eat them on Coronation Street and I was not sure what they were. YUCK I despise canned peas. Fresh peas are wonderful especially when they pop in your mouth. Blueberries are my favourite blueberries and apples. I am a universal soldier.
There are more Leonard Cohen CD's I need to complete my collection. My next quest is the French one, I am sure it will put my knickers in a knot.

Fljotsdale wrote:I knew he is bi-lingual, but the English is so natural I never considered the French might be as well.
Oh, well, no good being stupid if I don't prove it, LOL!

Hi, Fljotsdale.

I seem to recall an interview (in the 80s, maybe) where LC stated that he did not speak French fluently (at that time), and that when he sang in French, it was mostly phonetically. Of course, he might have been misquoted, or have acquired the language since, or -- it is even more likely -- perhaps I misremember. Regardless, I shall try to track down the cite for you. It stuck in my mind because The Partisan happened to be playing on my laptop at the time I read it.

Very curious!

Nice photo, CT......hurry up and start posting more, so you can get it in the Gallery .

*grin

Unfortunately, much of my life is fleeting, and I rarely stay anywhere very long. But it is nice to see you again, lizzytysh. I wore my red clogs the other day and thought of you.

That was a l-o-o-o-o-o-ng time ago . I'm happy to be associated with those shoes, too. Ah! You can just keep coming back ~ regularly/semi-regularly ~ in no time at all, you'll qualify.

HI CT

RED CLOGS omygaud. I have beeen wearing red clogs for 13 years. The have red leather tops and wooden bottoms. I bought them when I worked in a dried flower arranger's studio from a man in Nova Scotia who hand crafts them. I wore them while studying massage therapy and have been wearing ever since, I can't work without them on. They are a trademark so to say. A client went to an auction, ther was a pair of all wooden clogs, so he bought them for me.

CT wrote:

Fljotsdale wrote:I knew he is bi-lingual, but the English is so natural I never considered the French might be as well.
Oh, well, no good being stupid if I don't prove it, LOL!

Hi, Fljotsdale.

I seem to recall an interview (in the 80s, maybe) where LC stated that he did not speak French fluently (at that time), and that when he sang in French, it was mostly phonetically. Of course, he might have been misquoted, or have acquired the language since, or -- it is even more likely -- perhaps I misremember. Regardless, I shall try to track down the cite for you. It stuck in my mind because The Partisan happened to be playing on my laptop at the time I read it.

Very curious!

Thanks for making me feel not so stupid! I would be interesting, if you can find it.