English Over The Sleeve

M6, chaîne de TV privée française, diffuse cette semaine “Trader”, avec Ewan Mc Gregor… Quel flaire !!! Apparemment, quelqu’un, dans le service programmation, a ses entrées à la Société Générale…
GF

The results are out. Now we know what the knock-out stages of the Heineken cup look like.

2 French teams - Toulouse and Perpignan. The Stade Français did not qualify (they needed Cardiff to lose v. Bristol) although they went out in style. Sky News noted that the tournament lost out in colour (Stade Français play in pink).

2 London teams - well, the Saracens actually live in Watford, and the London Irish play in Reading (of all places!)

3 teams from England, all from the South. The northernmost team is Gloucester, the current Guinness Premiership leaders. A fun fact about Gloucester for my French readers - it’s pronounced “gloostère”.

0 teams from Italy.

2 teams from Wales - a result not equaled for the last seven years. Ospreys and Cardiff

And the 8th team is Munster, from Ireland. Munster beat the Wasps (the defending champions) over the weekend.

But before the next stage of the Heineken cup, we have the 6 nations to look forward to. Let’s see if England can show Europe what they showed the world in September!

Here’s a question for you: why does London have a large amount of top-flight Rugby teams, while Paris has one ? (we’ll assume here that London is Greater London (600 sq. miles), and Paris is anything in the Ile de France (depts. 75, 77, 78, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95)(4.5 thou sq. miles).

I studied English at uni. And I know that I am not alone. So let’s be honest here: Doesn’t this sum it up rather nicely?

With thanks to bunny.frozenreality.co.uk; image under this CC license.

While at my stop this morning, I watched a full bus (not mine) turn into a side road, realise that he had made a mistake, do a perfect 3 point turn in the road and resume his normal run. And there was me thinking that ratp drivers were infallible…

Blogged from the 195

Bonjour amis de l’Anglais par dessus la manche!
Voici un petit lien français avec une joyeuse vidéo sur notre beau pays!
Et viv’el chicon
GF

Edited by macdo to embed the clip

It’s the very official international standard for brewing tea.

I can’t comment on this.  Anything I’d say would be superfluous…