Mon pote âgé (My old mate)
A little word play. ‘Mon Pote âgé’ translates as ‘My old mate’. but ‘Mon potager’ (which sounds exactly the same) means ‘my vegetable patch’.
Les plombiers Landais. (The plumbers of Les Landes)
Plombiers sounds almost like palombières, which are the huts used to hide while hunting wood pigeons (palombes) in Les Landes.
A humorous drawing by Perry Taylor about life in rural France.
Les plombiers Landais. (The plumbers of Les Landes)
Plombiers sounds almost like palombières, which are the huts used to hide while hunting wood pigeons (palombes) in Les Landes.