Stories Collected While Living in France
Old French Postcard, dated 1900s.
As it is January, this month the theme will be Bonne Annee (Happy New Year!). If you would like to buy (Five Euro) the original one of a kind postcard please let me know by email. New Year Cards and Greetings are sent and said throughout the month of January. Old French postcards often had pigs and or clovers to symbolize Good Luck and Fortune.
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Happy one hundred and ten years ago to you too.
Swallows, the bringers of good luck, what better symbol to lead into the New Year?
My piano was built in the year 1905, as was the place where I live. Must have been a very good year in many aspects.
Here’s a slightly bad taste and/or amusing tidbit for you. My friend Peggy in Houston is a half-generation older than I, and her kids a half-generation younger. Peggy’s a real corker; I like her and her sense of humor a lot.
She’s not a big one on fancy frilly stuff but her oldest daughter is. One birthday, her daughter gave her the fanciest, frilliest birthday card with flowers and bluebirds and ribbons flowing and whatnot on the front. Inside it said “I’m giving this to you because I know you love bluebirds and flowers and all that shit.”
Hit the nail right on the head. In the case of this card, it’s swallows and flowers and…
(And now I hope the buyer of this card doesn’t see this and get put off! It’s really a lovely card!)
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